Reply #111: The kid's receiving "The Hoxsey Treatment"

[Bridget Burke]

(As I discovered in numerous other articles on the case.)

Here's what Sloan Ketting has to say:

Hoxsey treatment, illegal in the United States, is available at the Bio-Medical Center and other clinics in Tijuana, Mexico. According to inventor Harry Hoxsey (1901-1974), a self-taught healer, the principal "brown" tonic contains potassium iodide, licorice, red clover, burdock root, stillingia root, barberry, cascara, pokeroot, prickly ash bark, and buckthorn bark at unknown concentrations.

The diet eliminates pork, vinegar, tomatoes, pickles, carbonated drinks, alcohol, bleached flour, sugar and salt, and emphasizes iron, calcium, vitamin C, yeast supplements and grape juice. Hoxsey claimed the treatment detoxifies the body, strengthens the immune system, balances body chemistry, and allows the body to digest and excrete tumors. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), vitamin B12, Gerovital (a mixture of procaine hydrochloride and vitamins), "Prolobin liver," TST-100, rosette cactus, Koch Antitoxins, BCG vaccine, and Shulte's medications sometimes are included in the regimen.

Hoxsey was convicted numerous times for practicing medicine without a license; the U.S. government reported that the 400 patients Hoxsey claimed to have cured never had cancer, were cured before receiving his treatment, still had cancer, or had died from the disease. The National Cancer Institute evaluated 77 case reports submitted by Hoxsey and concluded that none showed efficacy. No clinical data supports the value of this therapy. Patients should be urged not to use the Hoxsey method.

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11571.cfm?RecordID=505&tab=HC

"Integrative Oncology is the study of "natural" treatments in combination with modern medicine. Here's information on the program at M D Anderson, another respected cancer center.
www.mdanderson.org/departments/cimer/

Anyone desiring an "anti-cancer" diet should begin it while still healthy. And I can understand that someone with a "hopeless" diagnosis might want to grasp at any straw. Any straw they can afford, that is--the Tijuana clinics are NOT free.

This young man has a disease that responds well to conventional therapy. The judge did the right thing.