This book is not about so-called alternative medicine. It is about
standard, orthodox medicine that had many good treatments for cancer up
until the early 20th century. For reasons of power and control of the
population, it was decided around 1910 that only radiation and surgery
would be the approved treatments (and chemo was later added in the
1950s).
Maxwell shows how physicians who tried to use the older methods were
threatened with loss of their medical license or were more harshly
punished. These include Emanuel Revici, Virginia Livingston, and Robert
Lincoln. She also argues that Edward Jenner engaged on fraud re smallpox
vaccination.