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Aug 21, 2004

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Spontaneous Remission

In 1993, Caryle Hirshberg and the late Brendan O'Regan assembled the largest database of medically reported cases of "spontaneous remission" in the world. They defined spontaneous remission as "the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor." While the authors believe that the phenomenon of remission is relatively rare, the data from their research suggest that it may not be as rare as previously believed.