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1. By Quackwatch
   January 24th, 2008 at 4.30am

   Lorraine Day, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon who stopped practicing many years ago, claims to have cured herself of terminal breast cancer with a 10-step program that featured a raw-food diet and prayer. After a biopsy showed that a small breast lump was malignant, she had a local operation to remove the visible tumor. According to her story, the cancer recurred and quickly grew to the size of a grapefruit, but she refused further standard care until severe pain forced her to have an operation to reduce the tumor’s size. After this was done, she claims, the doctors sent her home to die, but she cured herself with “natural methods.” She now sells books, tapes, and other products related to her claims.

   Day has posted her first biopsy report on her Web site but refused to release additional records that would show whether or not any cancer remained after the second operation. After an infomercial producer began marketing Day’s videotapes on cable television, the Council of Better Business’s National Advertising Division (NAD) requested evidence that she still had cancer after her second surgery and that doctors had “sent her home to die.” When none was provided, NAD concluded that her claim lacked a reasonable basis. http://www.infomercialwatch.org/reports/daynad.shtml

   Day falsely claims that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone. These offerings are especially dangerous because many people who are frightened about standard treatment or who resonate with her Christian beliefs conclude that she is credible. For additional details, see http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/day.html