Monday, June 25, 2018

Clínica 0-19: False hope in Monterrey for brain cancer patients

Drs. Alberto Sille and Alberto Garcia run Clínica 0-19 in Monterrey, Mexico, which has become a magnet for patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a deadly brain cancer. Unfortunately, their treatment is an unproven combination of 11 chemotherapy drugs injected into an artery feeding the brainstem, plus an unknown and unproven "immunotherapy." Of course it all costs $300,000 or more for a complete course of treatment, and of course the good doctors are "too busy to do clinical trials," despite having done this for 20 years. If it quacks like a duck...

from Science-Based Medicine https://ift.tt/2Iq4Hxh

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