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We all interpret things through the lens of our own experiences and there seems to be nothing that is easily found on the subject of Salvestrol that is not authored by Dr Potter - both references you gave have him as author.
So essentially we have a man, who no doubt genuinely believes that his latest discovery is even better than his previous one, and so he promotes it as a cure without any proof that it is. Why, one may well wonder, did he go the distance with trials and studies for Abiraterone Acetate and not for Salvestrol? THat doesn't make much sense to me.
The anecdotal evidence in the links you gave are far from convincing - at least for me because I have seen dozens of such examples of claimed cures for any number of compounds and treatments, all with anonymous but amazing recoveries......but with no evidence that these recoveries were in fact due to the compound or treatment claimed.
If they did experience a 'cure' could this have been spontaneous regression rather than Salvestrol? I wrote up a piece in December last year which anyone interested can find by putting spontaneous regression into the search engine on this forum. In my last post I quoted from an Study Suggests Some Cancers May Go Away in the New York Times series on Cancer.
It refers to a study in Norway – those darned Scandanavians!! – and it says in part …new study, to be published Tuesday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, suggests that even invasive cancers may sometimes go away without treatment and in larger numbers than anyone ever believed.
If someone has discovered a cure for cancer(or even something that would stop it for even 10 years in 75% of cases) they would get a Noble Prize and be the richest person in the world already.
On the other hand I do drink pomegranate juice in the blind faith that it works too ;-)
It always helps to have something to believe in just don't spend too much money on it and make sure to tell your doctors.
