Homeopathy doc to help Spain team in treating cancer

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Posted online: Tuesday , April 08, 2008 at 03:04:56
Updated: Tuesday , April 08, 2008 at 03:04:56

Kolkata, April 7 Renowned Homoeopath Dr Prasanta Banerji said on Monday that cancer and brain tumors are on a rise in Kolkata. He was speaking to mediapersons at a meet attended by a three-member cancer support team from Spain.

The team is in the city to acquire first-hand knowledge of the cancer treatment being offered at the Prasanta Banerjee Homoeopathic Research Foundation (PBH RF). It includes clinical oncologist Dr Natalia Eres and Dr Montserrat Assens Mampel — both from Barcelona with backgrounds of homoeopathy and acupuncture, now working on a special project on cancer and homoeopathy. Also present in the team was Asuncion Pastor Caurtero from Valencia, the founder member of a popular web portal for cancer support that get about 1,000 hits a day. PBHRF is collaborating with oncologists in Spain to assist them with treatments of cancer. According to Banerj, the PBHRF treated about 30 new cancer patients everyday. “ If follow up cases are included, then the number goes up to150 cancer patients everyday,” said Banerji.

During their stay in Kolkata the team interacted with cancer patients at PBHRF and made certain interesting observations. “In Spain, most of the cancer patients who come for homoeopathic treatment usually switch to homoeopathy after conventional treatments or to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. But here patients who have never been treated for cancer are using homoeopathy,” said Eres.

PBHRF and the university of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA jointly conducted an in vitro cancer study on the effectiveness of medicines Ruta 6 and Calcarea Phosphorica 3X in destroying brain cancer cells and stimulating new cells.

The study was published in the International Journal of Oncology. Through their interaction with the Spanish team, PBHRF will render help via online study of patients.

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