Are there other ways to cure lung cancer?

Because 88% of lung cancers eventually prove to be incurable, patients often become desperate for treatment and fall into the hands of unscupulous practicioners who offer the hope of cure with such things as mega-vitamin therapy, Laetrile, chelation etc.. These treatments have no value in the treatment of lung cancer, and may do actual harm, since they take patients away from good care. Quack practitioners who give such treatments, in my experience, are almost always bad doctors who are not capable of providing quality palliative care to cancer patients.

Patients also frequently ask whether prayer or a positive attitude can cure cancer. Prayer and a positive attitude may certainly help a patient through the difficult treatment process, and therefore can be beneficial, in combination with proven therapy. But in my experience, I have never seen a long term survival of a patient with proven lung cancer, in the absence of proven therapy with surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy.