Cancer experts warn of coffee enemas and juice diets amid rise in misinformation

Oncologists say patients rejecting proven treatments are dying needlessly because of increase in online cures'

Cancer patients are snubbing proven treatments in favour of quackery such as coffee enemas and raw juice diets amid an alarming" increase in misinformation on the web, doctors have said.

Some were dying needlessly or seeing tumours spread as a result, oncologists said. They raised their concerns at the world's largest cancer conference in Chicago, the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco).