A cancer study that will never happen

Chemotherapy is carcinogenic. A study to determine if that's true, and to what degree it's true, could hypothetically be designed to give the full course of chemotherapy to people who are perfectly healthy. Of course that will never happen, so this musing takes the form of a thought experiment. This imaginary study would also have no formal control group, for the obvious reason placebo's are meant to be benign, and since chemotherapy knocks the stuffings out of those who get it, it would be obvious to the control group they were not getting chemotherapy.

Now there is such a thing as a "nocebo" effect, where a control group has uncomfortable reactions due to power of suggestion. But mechanicals begin to trump psychologicals at some point, which we can see in another thought experiment: A group is told they are being given a newly discovered and radically more effective vitamin that has the potential to eliminate common diseases. Image that, a single pill a day. But instead they are given a fatal poison. (To repeat, it's a thought experiment.) Would psychologicals trump mechanicals in this instance?

But a larger control group is possible, healthy people of the same profile as those healthy people who received chemotherapy, with follow-ups over time, comparing what percent of healthy people who got chemo came down with cancer compared to  those who didn't get chemo.

There are alternative modalities of cancer treatment that are as (or more) effective than chemo, and they boil down to the basic things that are the cause of health.

To begin, numero uno is the discontinuation of the ingestion of all toxins, which is a longer list than most are aware of. Second would be to consume only foods of a high nutrition to calorie ratio. Here again, most are unaware this is even a "thing", as the normal diet we follow is stuffed with the opposite: a high calorie to nutrition ratio...the high calories make us fat, and the lack of real nutrition makes us sick. And there are other basic things: rigorous movement of the body, loving relationships, great sleep, clean air and water, and meditative practices to relieve stress.

Taken together it can actually be shocking how quickly the body becomes robustly healthy when making these significant changes. But that's biology for ya...when not degraded, it's a miracle.