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I've got a similar story. A high school friend's grandmother took a trip to Sri Lanki (their home country) to visit a "healer" (they were Buddhist, but I don't know which kind) in a last-ditch effort to avoid death from cancer. She came back without her tumor. Can I explain this? No, I can't.
I would explain it as a spontaneous remission followed by the post hoc fallacy.
Edit: assuming, of course, that the tumor was actually gone, as DSimon points out.
Surely you mean, causing post hoc fallacy?
If I do that, I may be in danger of committing the post hoc fallacy :-)
That was the joke...
Indeed.