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May 2007
Cancer patients are traveling to China hoping that controversial gene therapy Gendicine may prove a miracle cure. But western scientists are very reluctant to back the therapy which remains available only in China.
Philomina Moniz was given six months to live by Australian doctors. Her bladder cancer had spread into her abdomen, and there seemed no chance of controlling further spread. She heard of the Gendicine treatment in an article on the internet, and traveled to China where she was given an 80% chance of survival. Professor John Rasko admits that, "In cancer medicine it's always important to allow for hope", but he worries that there is still "no compelling evidence" that Gendicine is the miracle cure it is billed as. The treatment does not come cheap with a full course costing as much as 0,000, and while for some the price of life can never be too high, Rasko worries that not only are people wasting their time, they are also subjecting themselves to "considerable extra suffering" and "unexpected side-effects". Philomena's cancer ultimately proved not to respond to the Gendicine therapy. But she does not regret her trip, "at least I've tried everything in the book" she says. For her, like the hundreds of other patients in the clinic, "seeing people walk out of the clinic cancer free" provided the hope needed to go on fighting this deadly disease.

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  • I LOATHE doctors who say that people are taking a risk trying any treatment. Theyre going to die anyways, whats the risk, a bit of fucking hope. Even if its false, hope may stimulate a placebo healing effect.

  • Fuck the FDA! They do nothing but lie to us.

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  • @warriorprince1010

    Couldnt find anything on her over the net??

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  • @warriorprince1010

    source??

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  • me parece bien lo que hacen CHINA pues en PERU eso solo tienen un hospital especializado solo para el cancer y en realdad son muy malos al poner en emergencia a practicantes y hacer quimioterapias a personas que tienen operaciones en los dientes y se lo han curado lo cual ellos saben que los metales con los quimicos no son compatibles y les crean enfermedades lo cual no mueren por el cancer sino por la enfermedad que ellos le crearon

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  • At this point in life, I trust China! They own the U.S. anyway.

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