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For a real case of a somewhat popular and harmful treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dose_chemotherapy_and_bone_marrow_transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dose_chemotherapy_and_bon... > Clinical use of this treatment was driven by women with breast cancer and advocacy groups, such as ACT UP; they believed that the FDA treatment approval process was too slow.