[coloradan]

Sorry, just gotta ask: How many people with cancer make sudden, unexpected recoveries without the intercession of any religious people at all?

[Aussie Dasher]

Got to say I don't know, but once the doctors have told the patient he's outa here, I reckon it would be rare.

[From many - one.]

A fair number. I used to have a book entitled "Spontaneous Regression of Cancer" or something to that effect. I remember noticing that the regressions were often associated with high fevers and wondering if anyone was ever going to study that as an approach.

This was at least 20 years ago.

[Eaker]

I have helped bury two very close friends who died from cancer this year, one religious, one not but both were fighters.

I would not scoff at a visit from Pope John Paul.

[From many - one.]

Here's a link. It also mentions fevers.

Miraculous cures: what do they tell us?
http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/essays/skeptic/miraculouscures.html

[mugs99]

Sorry, just gotta ask: How many people with cancer make sudden, unexpected recoveries without the intercession of any religious people at all?

It's called spontaneous remission. Spontaneous remission occurs in approximately one in 60,000 according to medical literature. But, researchers outside of the medical industry claim the real number is closer to five in 15,000. Doctors today don't credit spontaneous remission like they did fifty years ago.
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