Crazy Celebrity Health Remedies

Suzanne Somers

Homeopathic Drugs and Mistletoe Injections

Television actress Suzanne Somers, best known for her sitcom roles as Chrissy Snow in "Three's Company" and Carol Lambert in "Step by Step," has in recent years become a proponent for healthy living and alternative therapies.

Somers stirred up controversy in 2001, when she disclosed on CNN's "Larry King" that she was using a homeopathic drug to help treat her breast cancer. Following conventional surgery and radiation therapy, she chose a therapy using mistletoe injections rather than pursue the recommended chemotherapy after her treatment.

While some mistletoe products are used in other countries for breast cancer treatment, there is no evidence that such injections can cure breast cancer, said Barrie Cassileth, the chief of integrative medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in an interview for the ABCNews.com OnCall+ Breast Cancer Center. Still, Cassileth said mistletoe products might cause some breast cancer patients to feel better, but there's not enough scientific data on the subject.