Elle Macpherson’s junk 'cures' for cancer are only likely to cause women more agony

The woman once known simply as The Body, which in itself offers some idea of what being a model in the 1980s was like, reveals in her forthcoming book, Elle, that seven years ago she was diagnosed with a form of early-stage breast cancer called HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma. According to an interview she gave to the Australian Women’s Weekly magazine this week, her surgeon suggested a mastectomy with radiation, chemotherapy and hormone therapy, but Macpherson decided she instead needed “my own truth, my belief system to support me”. So after meditating over the decision on a Miami beach, she decamped to Arizona to devote “every single minute to healing myself” under the care of a team including a doctor of naturopathy, an osteopath, a holistic dentist and – one suspects this last might be crucial – her primary doctor.