CORETTA SCOTT KING'S DEATH
TRIGGERS SHUTDOWN OF MEXICAN CLINIC
The revelation last week that Coretta Scott King, widow of
slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., had died
in a Mexican cancer clinic, and that the clinic had subsequently
been shut down by Mexican authorities, has once again focused
public attention on the phenomenon of the Tijuana-area clinics
and the unusual cancer treatments they provide.
My new report, "Mexican Cancer Clinics in the Era of
Evidence-Based Medicine," presents a thorough analysis
of the history, therapeutic philosophies, and current status
of approximately two dozen Mexican clinics, and examines in
great detail the criticisms that have been leveled against
them and their operators by US medical authorities and the
mainstream media. This 40-page report is arguably the most
complete discussion of the Mexican clinic phenomenon, from
the point of view of evidence-based medicine, yet written.
For decades, these clinics that have provided American and
other international patients with alternative treatments for
cancer and other chronic, degenerative diseases. Yet the treatments
they provide, and their very existence, are now threatened
as never before. In addition to giving an overview of their
activities, I provide suggestions for reform that, if implemented,
would help bring the Tijuana area clinics into the world of
21st century scientific medicine.
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, the famed orthomolecular physician,
has read this new report and states:
"Dr. Moss has written a superb report on the Mexican
alternative medicine clinics. But such alternative clinics
for treating cancer would be unnecessary if conventional oncology
were doing a proper job. As it is, sick and dying patients
feel driven to seek treatment at facilities in another country.
The vast majority of patients who make these journeys do so
either because they are in a sense refugees from failed conventional
approaches, or because they seek specific treatments that
are not available in their home country. The role of big government
in attempting to discourage such "medical tourism"
and ultimately to prevent access to alternative treatments
is thoroughly examined in this excellent report."
(In case you are unfamiliar with Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, FRCP-C,
he is a Canadian psychiatrist well known for his use of "orthomolecular
medicine" in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
He was formerly Director of Psychiatric Research of the province
of Saskatchewan and is the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed
articles. In 1955, he discovered that niacin successfully
controlled elevated cholesterol levels.)
David Hess, PhD, professor and chairperson of the Department
of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY, and an expert on the sociology of cancer
treatments writes:
"For over thirty years Ralph Moss has been a beacon
of integrity in the controversies surrounding complementary
and alternative cancer therapies. He cuts through the rhetoric
and hype on both sides and always keeps the best interest
of the patient in mind. His current work on the Mexican cancer
clinics updates his classic book, The Cancer Industry, by
taking us into an era of globalization. International agreements
such as NAFTA and the changing economy of Tijuana are creating
the conditions for a new wave of repression of the longstanding
phenomenon of the border clinics."
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