Alternative cancer therapy methods, hazards and deaths

Venus Fly Against Cancer - When pseudomedicine kills

The "Biological Cancer Center Bracht" in the Netherlands hit the headlines in August 2016 after three patients had died within a week of receiving treatment. The responsible Minister Hermann Gröhe told the Rheinische Post: "The administration of substances that are not approved as drugs and that are only in an experimental basic research is not justifiable."

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• Venus Fly Against Cancer - When pseudomedicine kills
• Biological cancer treatment?
• practice ban
• Medical Chamber alerted
• Barbara Steffens is silent
• The Minister against science
• Venus fly against colon cancer
• Pendulum against diagnosis
• The wellness warrior
• Chance missed
• "The cure of every cancer"
• Homeopathy and radiation
• Headlight against the tumor
• Too late
• Pseudo medicine at government level
• Why does pseudomedicine harm?
• Nocebo and false guilt
• Apricot kernels against cancer
• Bob Marley and Steve Jobs
• Diet instead of surgery
• Could Jobs still live?
• Dead children
• Septic shock by "alternative means"
• Sick children belong to the doctor
• Negligent homicide
• "Diabetes without insulin curable"
• Maple syrup against meningitis
• opposing vaccination
• Cause of death: globules
• Teething tablets with belladonna
• "Germanic Medicine"
• A deadly anti-Semite
• Cancer as a mental conflict
• references

Biological cancer treatment?

A naturopath had treated the patients with an infusion of the drug 3-Bromopyruvat. This remedy is not permitted in Germany, even prohibited in the Netherlands. It was an "alternative cancer therapy". The idea behind it is that cancer cells have a changed sugar metabolism and 3-bromopyruvate could prevent cancer growth. Tests for the drug were previously only in Petri dishes and animal studies, the studies are therefore in the initial stages.

At the "Biologischer Krebszentrum Bracht" at least three cancer patients have died after treatment with alternative methods. (Image: fotoliaxrender / fotolia.com)

The tumor cells should get the information that they are sufficiently energized, and should therefore stop growing. The problem is that if pyruvate gets into the cells in large quantities, it damages them.

The responsible person, Klaus Ross, studied, according to own data biomedical technology, worked then as a product manager for medical devices and acquired in Krefeld its admission to the non-medical practitioner. Since 2014, he has offered "biological cancer treatment, pain therapy and detoxification" in the center he runs, the costs of which have risen to 10,000 euros in ten weeks.

practice ban

After the deaths, the center was prohibited from practicing and the police sealed the front door. The medical officer in the district of Viersen filed a criminal complaint against the alternative practitioner. First, it was about the suspicion of failure to help: When the patients showed the symptoms, he did not inform the ambulance, but gave them vitamins. The Krefeld authorities determined against the alternative practitioner in a total of 70 cases. The question was whether they died of cancer or the drug 3-Bromopyruvat.

The Dayspring Cancer Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona also relies on this "alternative therapy approach", and the US Department of Health in 2013 approved a study on the effects of 3BP.

In the Netherlands, unlike Germany, the use of alternative means is strictly controlled. In Germany, only prescription drugs for non-medical practitioners are prohibited. Klaus Ross recognized this gap in the market and specifically campaigned for patients from the Netherlands.

Medical Chamber alerted

Eugen Brysch from the German Foundation for Patient Protection considered it urgently necessary to reform the training of healers. He told NOZ: "While there are no major barriers to medical certification in Germany, neighboring countries like Austria and the Netherlands are taking a different approach."

It is unclear, above all, what a non-medical practitioner may and may not do: "For non-medical practitioners as well as for their remedies may no longer apply: Everything is allowed, which is not expressly prohibited." Rather, it must apply: "Prohibited is what is not allowed . "

Critics complain that in this country, the requirements for admission as a naturopaths are too low. (Image: Thomas Reimer / fotolia.com)

Rudolf Henke, President of the NRW Medical Association, said it was unreasonable for alternative practitioners to take on the treatment of cancer patients.

Barbara Steffens is silent

The competent Minister of Health in North Rhine-Westphalia, Barbara Steffens, was silent in silence as to why Klaus Ross, resident of Kleefeld, was able to pursue his perilous quackery undisturbed in NRW.

The cloud of mist emanating from her was no coincidence. She herself said in another context, "The second thing is simply that I find it presumptuous that anyone thinks that scientists could just as easily explain humans, disease processes, and recovery processes."

The Minister against science

Matthias Schwab from Dr. Ing. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute for Clinical Pharmacology in Stuttgart wrote to the minister: "Of course one can explain humans (whichever one understands them), disease processes and recovery processes just not so simply scientifically, which is why a systematic in-depth scientific study the matter is needed to prove that pseudo-medical procedures endanger the patient more than they can help. "

He gives the example: "If we had not scientifically generated data on the treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the highest level in oncological research in the last 25 years, these children's chances of surviving today would not be> 90%."

In the case of Ross, there was a fatal rendezvous between an anti-science health minister and a quack-pawing pseudo-healer. That cost people their lives.

Venus fly against colon cancer

Klaus Ross's patients are not the only ones to die as a result of "alternative cancer treatment." Penelope Dingle from Australia died of colon cancer in 2005. Her sister did an autopsy. The testified that the homeopath Francine Scrayen and a toxicologist from Perth were responsible for the death. They had prescribed the patients a homeopathic treatment combined with a vegetarian diet. Scrayen also recommended the deceased olive oil.

A charge was that the homeopath had no medical training and would have Dingle immediately refer to a doctor. Two "alternative doctors" also inspired the patient to treat her colon cancer with Venus fly extract and vitamin C..

The deceased also complained to Francine Scryen that she would only seek alternative medical treatment. Her husband, Peter Dingle, should then write a book about the disease after the supposed cure.
The only luck in the misfortune: Penelope Dingle meticulously wrote for this purpose a disease diary, which occupied Scryen as responsible for the death.

Despite previous cancer diagnosis, a naturopath in a patient by means of a pendulum determined only a chest infection. (Image: Monika Wisniewska / fotolia.com)

Pendulum against diagnosis

A woman from Carinthia fell ill with breast cancer. A non-medical practitioner from Germany determined with his pendulum that the diagnosis of cancer was "wrong"; she has an inflamed breast. He "treated" the woman over the years with "homeopathic remedies", earning 27,500 euros, and the victim died of the cancer, which she, according to the "healer" did not have.

The botcher was due to negligent homicide by omission in court.

The wellness warrior

Jessica Ainscough was nicknamed "Wellness Warrior" in Australia and promoted carotene cancer therapies, among others. In 2008, doctors diagnosed with her a soft tissue cancer that affects the hand, fingers, elbows and forearms.

She wrote on the online forum "MindBodyGreen": "After being told by doctors that my only real chance of long-term survival would be to have my arm amputated at the shoulder I decided to take matters into my own hands. I refused their offers of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation and began searching for natural, alternative cancer treatments. "

("After I was told by the doctors that my only real chance of long-term survival would be to have my arm amputated on the shoulder, I decided to take the matter into my own hands." I refused the offers from surgery, chemo and radiation and began to search for natural, alternative cancer treatments. ")

Chance missed

She died of her cancer. A cardiologist commented, "Jess Ainscough had a shot, one good shot. That's usually the case for most cancers; your first shot is your best shot. She did not take her first shot (...) Now that she's gone, what I want to know is this:

("Jess Ainscough had a chance, a good chance, it's usually the case with cancer, your first chance is your best chance, and we cancer doctors need to use it." She did not seize her first chance.) Now she's gone, as I know wants is: Who are those quackers who empowered and incited them? ")

Australian oncologist Ranjana Srivastava wrote about Jessica's death: "It wants to attract unbuaranteed patients who want to go to the faintest promise of recovery without associated harm." Whenever money changes hands and the premise sounds too good, the motto remains: Caveat Emptor. "

("It will always attract unskilled patients to cling to the vaguest promise of healing with no damage to it." Whenever money changes hands and the accompanying sounds sound too good to be true, the motto is: Exclusion of warranty. " )

"The cure of every cancer"

Lucille Craven of New Hampshire diagnosed an oncologist in 1997 with a pea-sized tumor in his chest. The doctor recommended removal of the breast and nearby lymph nodes, plus chemo.

She hid the meetings with the doctors and their diagnoses at this time in front of her family, before she had once said that if she had cancer she would not want to be "cut, burned or poisoned". In other words, she refused to cut out the tumor or get her drugged.

Accompanied by another doctor, she went to a "naturopath" who claimed to be able to cure the cancer. He demanded many thousands of dollars in advance and an agreement that all family members would release him from liability. The patient was obviously too frivolous.

Lucille now read books like The Cure for All Cancers. One of these books was written by a chiropractor from a neighboring state.

Homeopathy and radiation

The patient regularly visited his clinic, although she was 200 km away. He took blood samples and examined them under the microscope. Ultimately, he prescribed 714X, a drug for injecting. She then injected herself with this medication. A local doctor prescribed her homeopathic remedies and took blood.

She continued to conceal the "therapy" from her family, claiming that the change in her diet and the homeopathic remedies are a change towards a healthy lifestyle.

Her husband eventually realized she was missing injections. She knew that he rigorously refused this self-treatment, as did her meetings with the chiropractor. The husband was smart and showed her article about the dangers of unchecked drugs.

Headlight against the tumor

The untreated cancer now broke through the outer skin of the breast. Her doctor (the cardiologist who advised her to avoid surgery) diagnosed the tumor as carbuncle. These are purulent bumps that develop during infections and kept excessively growing lymph nodes for the cause.

Her "self-treatment" has now become even more extreme: she acquired a device for several thousand dollars with two headlights. They should accelerate the "lymphatic flow".

Two years had passed since the first correct diagnosis. The tumor had grown and metastasized, causing lymph node swelling on the left arm to swell.

A patient from New Hampshire injected herself without medical supervision, a drug that was supposed to help against her breast cancer. (Image: Africa Studio / fotolia.com)

Too late

Now her husband urged her to go to the oncologist, and she agreed to a conventional treatment. But it was too late. The responsible surgeon and the present radiologist agreed that the cancer could no longer be treated. Four months later she died.

Her husband has since clarified about quackery. Lucille's early death (she died at 54) would most likely have been avoided. A pea-sized tumor that has not spread, does not spread to the lymph nodes can be excised well with a "generous" removal of the breast tissue - and the chances of a complete cure are high.

Pseudo medicine at government level

If pseudo-medicine becomes official politics, it can cost thousands of lives. For example, South Africa's Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, was a member of the AIDS denial scene after the millennium, and was inspired by the German "healer" Matthias Rath.

The result: Meaningful prevention programs such as education on the use of condoms did not take place until this policy came to an end.

The Harvard School of Public Health stated that 330,000 people died of AIDS between 2000 and 2005, avoiding prevention programs. The AIDS deniers also claimed responsibility for 35,000 cases of HIV in children, as the government ended education programs on maternal-to-child transmission.

Why does pseudomedicine harm?

Dead by pseudo-medicine are spectacular; Dieter Ratz, meanwhile, argued that on-the-spot therapies also hurt in a variety of other ways. The direct damage also occurs. For example, an Australian died in 2009 of MMS, which was considered by esoterics as a remedy for various diseases.

However, damage is much more common because patients use pseudo-medical "therapies" for severe conditions such as cancer. According to Ratz, cancer patients with good prognosis die each year after and because they switch to "alternative procedures".

Nocebo and false guilt

However, the loss of trust in scientific methods has a far greater effect indirectly. It can cause a nocebo effect that works like a placebo - only negative.

Those who are scared of harmless ingredients, suffering from the scare tactics. Those who pretend to be unscientific panacea lose the scientific understanding of understanding disease processes.

Even worse: He blames himself for the bad course of his illness because he believes in the esoteric sense to think wrongly.

Apricot kernels against cancer

Apricot kernels also belong to the "alternative cancer remedies". They contain amygdalin, which, according to the theory, kill cancer cells in the body. A contained vitamin B17 is considered as a miracle cure for cancer. In contrast, American studies show that vitamin B 17 is ineffective.

But the consumption of apricot kernels can be life-threatening because the kernels are by no means ineffective. They can trigger poisoning because the body converts amygdalin to hydrocyanic acid, which prevents the cells from taking in oxygen. Nausea, headaches and paralysis are the result - in the end, death can stand. Adults should therefore consume no more than two pips per day.

Since 2006, poison emergency centers in Germany registered several hundred poisonings by apricot kernels. The German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg expressly warns against "alternative treatments" with amygdalin.

Apricot kernels are offered as an alternative remedy for cancer. But the supposedly healthy cores can lead to deadly poisoning. (Image: M. Schuppich / fotolia.com)

Bob Marley and Steve Jobs

Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer in 1981 at age 36. In 1977, doctors had found a small tumor in his big toe. His religious belief forbade the Rastafarian from amputation. He tried "alternative methods," but the cancer spread throughout the body, pulling him away from his time.

Steve Jobs died of a cancer in the pancreas and complications of a liver transplant. In 2003, a tumor was discovered in the pancreas. It was the better form to be treated. Only 5% of tumors in the pancreas belong to these isolated cell tumors.

70-90% of the treated patients survive the first five years, many even ten or more years longer - because the cancer occurs especially in advanced age, life research beyond the first five years is hardly productive, as many sufferers die elsewhere.

The most important treatment is the surgical removal of the tumor, the chances of recovery depend heavily on how early the carcinoma is discovered - especially that the cancer is cut out before it forms metastases.

Diet instead of surgery

Jobs had a good chance: his tumor was isolated, at an early stage, and the prognosis for removing it was very good. In 2004 he had the pancreas and parts of the gastrointestinal tract removed in a Whipple operation. The operation takes its name from the physician Allen Whipple, who invented it. This procedure in the upper abdomen is very complicated, and only a few specialist clinics are capable of doing so.

Could Jobs still live?

In 2009, the American entrepreneur had a liver transplant, probably to prevent a recurrence of the cancer. This year, he also underwent hormone treatment in Switzerland.

Jobs was Buddhist and vegetarian and skeptical of conventional medicine. So he hesitated for nine months before undergoing surgery. He tried alternative methods and underwent a special diet.

When he had surgery in 2004, the cancer was more advanced and may have metastasized - at least, probably because the doctors were removing parts of the gut and stomach. Would an early surgery have saved him? There is no guarantee, but his chances of recovery would have been much better.

Dead children

The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne examined 39 deaths from children who had previously been treated as an alternative. In 30 of them, the investigation found a link between the treatment or refusal of prescribed medications.

Damage caused by the wrong therapies or denial of professional treatment included constipation, infection, epileptic seizures, bleeding, pain from allergic reactions, oral ulcers, vomiting, stunting, and malnutrition.

Septic shock by "alternative means"

Four children died because their parents refused medical treatment; one infant died of septic shock as a result of a "naturopathic rice milk diet". Another child died after several epileptic seizures after the parents discontinued the antiepileptic drugs and instead used "alternative remedies". A fourth child died of bleeding because the parents refused coagulation-promoting drugs.

A boy in Austria suffered from the immune disorder SCID. His parents had taken him to a clinic for a bone marrow transplant. The responsible expert Kurt Widhalm saw a 95% chance of recovery. However, the parents took their son home prior to the procedure, refused further investigation, and refused tested drugs. They had him treated by the family doctor with homeopathic remedies instead.

The doctor did not even give antibiotics, and the boy's condition worsened. The child finally died of sepsis: one of his ear canals decomposed and his lungs were overgrown with inflammation. He was also malnourished.

Sick children belong to the doctor

A seven-year-old in Canada became ill with a bacterial infection. Within ten days, the symptoms got worse and worse. The mother did not go to the doctor, but gave the patient homeopathic remedies.

After ten days, she called the ambulance because the boy's heart stopped beating. The boy was dead. Police spokesman Michael Cavilla said, "It should be a warning to all parents. If your child is ill, take it to the doctor. "

Many children die because the parents do not allow chemo. (Image: pingpao / fotolia.com)

The English website "What's the harm" lists about 18,000 cases of children who died as a result of pseudo-medicine, religious beliefs, rejection of vaccines and evidence-based medicine. Among "alternative medicine" are mainly children who died of cancer, among other things, because the parents refused effective chemotherapy.

Negligent homicide

Diabetes is not directly fatal, provided the disease is treated as it is possible under current medical standards.

A seven-year-old girl in Bad Säckingen, however, fell into the wrong hands. The child was originally treated by non-medical practitioners for language difficulties. But in October 2006 it turned out that the student from the western district of Waldshut had diabetes.

"Diabetes without insulin curable"

The naturopath told the mother that diabetes is curable without insulin. In November, the disease rates of the small rose rapidly. At 3.12. The naturopath visited the girl in the morning, but did not even think of having her taken to the hospital. Later in the day she came near the unconsciousness to the intensive care unit of Uniklink Freiburg.

Strong doses of insulin did not help anymore: She died on 4 December 2006. The (non-) non-medical practitioner was sentenced by the Landgericht Waldshut-Tiengen to 7500 euros fine and eight months on probation for negligent homicide, mother and father were convicted of the same offense.

Maple syrup against meningitis

Nine-month-old Ezekiel from Alberta, Canada, was breathing heavily, his body became stiff, and he was plagued by a bad cough. Fever broke out. The 35-year-old mother saw no reason to visit a pediatrician, but treated him with "natural remedies" such as maple syrup and olive extract. Two weeks later, the boy died: it was a viral meningitis, which could have been treated well.

opposing vaccination

The (non-) treatment was logical: The parents come from the conspirator-fantasists and vaccination-milieu. They operate a company for natural remedies and declare themselves innocent. The public prosecutor's office, on the other hand, is suing her for negligent homicide by omission. If they are found guilty, they can go to jail for five years.

Cause of death: globules

In the US, ten children recently died from taking globules. Homeopathy is in the criticism of scientific medicine - among other things, because it dilutes components so much that they no longer contain detectable molecules of the original substance, so this substance does not exist scientifically.

Some doctors are ambivalent about the so-called globules, sugar globules, onto which liquid with the chemically undetectable substance is dripped. They think the globules do not work, but they do no harm.

Teething tablets with belladonna

Sometimes, however, the globules contain an effective amount of the original substance, and this has been fatal in the United States. "Teething tablets" contained the poison of the black belladonna, and the ten children took this poison with the globules.

The atropine contained in the tablets should help with teething. Cases studied in the United States showed severe side effects in approximately 400 cases, resulting in deaths in 10 children as described.

Common symptoms of affected children included convulsions, tremors, shortness of breath and fever. These are all typical symptoms of atropine poisoning. In higher doses paralysis, coma and death follow.

In the United States, 10 children died after taking homeopathic globules that contained the poison of the black belladonna. (Image: Visions-AD / fotolia.com)

"Germanic Medicine"

Ryke Geerd Hamer was born in 1935 in Hettisch Mettmann. He is a conspiracy fantasist and anti-Semite. Since 1981 he "practiced" the invented by him "Germanic New Medicine". In 1986 he lost his license to practice in Germany and often went to prison - mainly for fraud and illegal practice.

A deadly anti-Semite

It is estimated that 80 deaths are attributable to his treatments. In 1995, for example, six-year-old Olivia Pilhar suffered because the Hamer-believing parents denied her a real therapy. The antisemites were deprived of their parenting rights and an evidence-based treatment saved the girl's life.

Meanwhile, critics assume that more than 150 people died as a result of treatment to Hamer. The number of unreported cases could be three to four times higher. For terminal illnesses, Hamer aggravated the pain by telling them they would die immediately if they took painkillers.

Görlitzer Hans-Ulrich L. died in 2015. He suffered from malignant lymphoma, which doctors discovered early on, and that early surgery could have been good with a favorable prognosis for complete recovery.

Cancer as a mental conflict

The "Germanic physician" lulled the person concerned, cancer is due to an "undigested mental conflict", the conventional therapies are nothing but "devil exorcism". Instead of surgery, the patient should hear a song called "My Student Girl," which Hamer himself had designed.

He should be healed by the "vibrations". The piece of music was playing continuously, and shortly before the person died at 66, he switched off the music. At the funeral, the daughter of the victim of "Germanic New Medicine" wore a sign with the inscription: "Thanks to you, Ryke Geerd Hamer".

The deadly guru of "Germanic medicine" has since left for Norway. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)

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