We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
placebos cannot reduce the size or eliminate tumors if people who unfortunately have tumors okay cancer are given a placebo and told this drug which actually is a placebo unbeknownst to them is going to reduce the size of your tumors or eliminate your tumors that Placebo is not effective in reducing the size or eliminating those tumors
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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those Placebo effects are not acting directly on tumors to reduce their size or eliminate them
Whole-body MRI screening in healthy adults produces more incidentaloma harm than cancer-mortality benefit.
Starting colonoscopy screening at 45 (vs 50) prevents enough early-onset cancers to justify the population cost.
Multi-cancer liquid-biopsy tests like Galleri detect early cancers at a stage that meaningfully improves survival.