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Article: FTC goes after Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Center for Medical Consumers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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As profits become more of an issue in the treatment of cancer, so too will false advertising. Last month, the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Inc., and two affiliated hospitals have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that they made false and unsubstantiated claims in advertising and promoting their cancer treatments.
The FTC alleged that these treatment enters could not back up what they had advertised to the public. The centers falsely claimed that certain procedures such as whole body hyperthermia and brachytherapy for lung cancer would successfully treat cancers unresponsive to standard therapies. The centers also failed to ...