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In reply to the discussion: Naturopaths and the creep of pseudo-science [View all]pnwmom
(108,973 posts)and Harborview Hospital, all mainstream medical investigators who have collaborated with Bastyr in research studies, prove you wrong.
So does the National Institutes of Health, which has funded Bastyr research. Here's a current example:
http://www.bastyr.edu/research/studies
Breast Cancer Integrative Oncology: Prospective Matched Controlled Outcomes Study
Status: Recruiting
Study area: Oncology
Principal investigator: Leanna J. Standish, ND, PhD, LAc, FABNO; M. Robyn Andersen, PhD
Funded by: Primary funding by: NIH/NCCAM Grant No. 1R01AT005873; Study Expansion funding by: Lotte & John Hecht Foundation
Project period: 8/1/10 12/31/18
PURPOSE: This NIH-NCCAM funded epidemiologic research is being conducted as an observational prospective case-control study of the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Oncology (IO) and their effects on breast cancer patients in community settings.
Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT-1366248