The story had finally come out, and it even addressed a clinic I’ve discussed a couple of times before, the Hallwang Private Oncology Clinic. Then, last week, I saw the story “ The Last Resort” by Lindsay Gellman, with the tag line: Private clinics in Germany sell cancer patients hope - and mixed results - at exorbitant prices. Although I did know a fair amount about what I viewed as the quackery being practiced at several German cancer clinics, I had no idea how much I had helped or not helped, given that my knowledge of German law and medical regulations was very thin indeed and that one of the reporter’s goals was to figure out how such clinics could continue to operate. I spoke with her for quite a while and then forgot about it, not having seen a story resulting from it.
I also noted how German cancer clinics market themselves to the whole European Union, drawing patients from many countries in Europe and also from the United Kingdom, where celebrities and GoFundMe campaigns promote them.Ī year ago or more, a reporter in Germany called me about such clinics. I’ve also taken note of such clinics on other occasions, such as when one clinic offered an unproven but legitimate experimental drug to patients outside the auspices of a clinical trial. I’m referring to Germany, of course, whose dubious cancer clinics I first became aware of when Farrah Fawcett traveled to a German cancer clinic to treat her recurrent anal cancer a decade ago. Indeed, one can argue that such clinics are a more vexing problem there than clinics in Mexico or former USSR member states because the nation has a reputation of being bastion of science and science-based medicine. There is, however, another nation well known for its highly dubious cancer clinics. There are also such clinics in Eastern Europe, such as the International Virotherapy Center in Latvia, which administers Rigvir, its unproven “oncolytic virotherapy,” and exports it to the quack cancer clinic Hope4Cancer in Mexico. That’s not to say that we don’t have such clinics in the US (just read my posts about the Burzynski Clinic in Houston if you don’t believe me), but it’s harder for such clinics to continue to operate than in, for example, Mexico or Central America. Sometimes, such clinics are located in countries like China, Argentina, Kazakhstan, or Latvia, where regulations governing what medical facilities can do are more lax.
#German stem cell treatment cost free#
When most people think of quack cancer clinics selling snake oil, they think of places like Tijuana and other cities in Mexico along the US border, locations that make them easily accessible to many Americans but free from the pesky regulations governing patient care in many developed countries and where, sometimes, American stem cell companies ship patients when they’re not eligible for US protocols or clinical trials.
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