This is an old game.
I had a small business startup in which I sought to manufacture an old anti-cancer vaccine in the public domain, Coley's toxins. It's a fever vaccine. Spontaneous regression of cancer is well-documented in the medical literature, back to the 1700s, to be associated with feverish infection.
The vaccine actually underwent a small phase I clinical trial at Sloan Kettering in 2012. But during the trial, patients were allowed to dose with anti-pyretics, diminishing the healing capacity of the fever. The trial still showed beneficial results, but far fewer than if this intervention had not been allowed.
I also wrote this piece on Vitamin C as a cancer treatment, in which I showed that flawed clinical trials at the Mayo Clinic, after Linus Pauling's seminal trials on Vitamin C, were used to discredit its use in cancer therapy. As a result, there were decades of setback and Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, was branded as a quack.
Sound familiar? Welcome to the club, Steve. :) We do need more in the club!
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/modern-ignorance-and-ancient-wisdom-8c1?s=w