If you or a member of your family were told you have cancer, what would you do to seek help? Particularly if mainstream medicine offered little chance of survival?

For many Canadians the last hope is to turn to alternative treatment.

Now, some alternative therapies can offer benefits, but there are also many questionable practitioners who make dubious claims to desperate cancer victims.

And not all of them are found in the so-called Third World, where there may be little monitoring of health care.

In fact, W-FIVE has found that some serious unsubstantiated treatment claims are coming from clinics right here in Canada.

Our investigation of alternative cancer treatments takes us from the United States to Mexico ... but ends up back in Canada.

Click on the video icons at right to see our full report.

• Please note: The Cancer Research Society, www.cancerresearchsociety.ca, a charitable organization which funds cancer research in hospitals, universities and research institutes across Canada is in no way associated with the Canadian Cancer Research Group.