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In
1993, the Institute of Noetic Sciences published Spontaneous
Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. In this work, the
authors, Caryle Hirshberg and the late Brendan O'Regan defined
spontaneous remission as "the disappearance, complete or
incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or
treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting
disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor."
Because there was no standard reference for the field of
spontaneous remission before that time, the first task of the
Remission Project at IONS was to catalogue the world’s medical
literature on the subject. As a result, it assembled the
largest
database of medically reported cases of spontaneous
remission in the world, with more than 3,500 references from
more than 800 journals in 20 different languages.
While the authors believe that the phenomenon of remission is
relatively rare, the data from their research suggest that it
may not be as rare as previously believed. It appears that the
impression of rarity is at least partly an artifact of
underreporting, but research shows there has been an increase in
the number of cases reported in the last few decades.
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