Q: Please let me know if you have any information regarding the so called Chinese cure for cancer using Cessiac and Yuccalive. Please go to www.throat-cancer-cure.com in case you have not heard about it. I shall be grateful if you can throw some light about these products and your impressions about them.

A:There are numerous allegedly effective cures or even relievers of cancer that lack any validity. To prove a drug or a mixture of herbs have any useful benefits can take years of scrupulous research and usually is enormously expensive. Unfortunately many fake remedies are sold, and many other cures are promoted without justification. There is always a story about a miraculous response to a traditional or secret remedy but all the evidence is that such products are useless or possibly harmful. The old adage is that if it sounds too good to be true it very probably is not true. The other important adage is buyer beware.