Doctor removed : he “cured” cancer with black radish and extract gui

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Published the 22.10.2017 at 16h01

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We can choose to laugh or cry. In the Alpes maritimes, a homeopathic doctor has been struck off for a period of two years by the Council of the College of physicians, for failing to meet its ethical obligations in the management of a patient with breast cancer.

The case, as of the date of the summer of 2016, is reported by Le Parisien. It is alleged that the practitioner had not made contact with the hospital and have not prescribed any review to this patient, and thus have strengthened its patient in the illusion that she could escape the conventional treatment without the loss of chance major.

To his patient, the doctor was satisfied, and to prescribe the various preparations, herbal ” targeted oncology “, at the base of black radish, milk thistle, walnut, or arnica. More surprising, he proceeded to injections of extract of mistletoe in the breast, around the tumor. The family had decided to lodge a complaint in September 2012, six months before the patient dies as a result of his illness.

The acquired data of science

“The mere fact that Mrs. F. would have given up on treatment chemotherapeutic shields by the doctor D. her responsibility. It was, in effect, provide to the interested care in line with her state of health and to the data acquired of the science, by making, if necessary, involve a third party competent, what he has not done, slice the judgment, cited by the daily.

According to the code of medical ethics, the freedom of prescription of physicians is limited by the ” acquired data of science “, validated by clinical studies and the judgment of the community. This is the case, for example, recommendations issued by the national Institute of cancer (INCa) and the various learned societies of cancerology. The doctor away must therefore be able to justify its decision, and must inform his patient about the risks that he incurs in case of refusal of optimal treatment.

The place of the medicines of the “soft”

As a general rule, if the dietary supplements and plant products (phytotherapy) can be integrated to support a cancer patient, they are in the alternative and cannot be a substitute for conventional treatment : surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc

In breast cancer, it is unfortunately rare that the patient followers of medicines ” soft “ refuse chemotherapy. With the key, a loss of opportunity. Even when it is consumed as a supplement to conventional treatment, herbal remedies should be monitored by a medical team, under the penalty of a cause of the problems of drug interaction.

This is not the first time that the practice without discernment of an alternative medicine endangers a patient. Last may, a scandal had moved to Italy. Only treated by homeopathy since the age of three years old, a little boy of seven years had died of complications of infectious otitis. A simple antibiotic treatment of basic would probably have been enough to avoid it.