A Scientist Cured Her Breast Cancer With Self-Experimentation, But Multiple Journals Rejected Her Paper

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A Scientist Cured Her Breast Cancer With Self-Experimentation, But Multiple Journals Rejected Her Paper
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Paul Hsieh, M.D., writes about health policy, medical ethics/history, and health innovation from a free-market perspective. He graduated from University of Michigan Medical School and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (where he was also a faculty member).

through careful medical self-experimentation. Specifically, she treated her cancer by injecting a series of laboratory-grown cancer-fighting viruses directly into the tumor, thus shrinking the tumor and making it amenable to curative surgery.

But even if a self-experimenter is not as careful as Dr. Halassy, they still retain the right to bodily autonomy. This includes the right to decline conventional medical therapies and attempt unproven treatments, as long as they of sound mind and are making their decisions free of undue external influences.

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