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Following an alternative treatment to conventional medicine could be fatal.

Although there are no official figures, the vice president of the Association to Protect the Sick from Pseudoscientific Therapies, Emilio Molina Cazorla, estimates that some 1,500 people die each year in Spain for trying to cure cancer without stepping on a hospital.