Florida naturopath facing charges after treating girl’s fatal leukemia with vitamins and vegan diet

[progressoid]

A controversial herbal “healer” and naturopath is under fire after the death of a teen girl he was treating for leukemia using a strict vegan diet and herbal supplements.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company reported on the death of the teen girl, who was from one of Ontario, Canada’s aboriginal First Nation tribes. Another teen girl from the same community is still in the care of Brian Clement, who Florida officials have ordered to stop practicing medicine and calling himself a doctor.

Clement operates the Hippocrates Institute, a spa-cum-clinic in Orlando, Florida where patients with serious diseases have been treated with what the state of Florida is calling “unproven and possibly dangerous therapies.”

Clement urges his patients to forego conventional medicine like chemotherapy in favor of veganism, supplements, juices and a raw diet.

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The Post said that Clement claims to have cured “thousands and thousands” of terminally ill people of their ailments.


More with a CBC video at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/florida-naturopath-facing-charges-after-treating-girls-fatal-leukemia-with-vitamins-and-vegan-diet/

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[Thirties Child]

1. OMG. Thank goodness he's been ordered to stop practicing medicine.

A dear friend is resisting her lymphoma diagnosis, has talked about going to the Hippocrates Institute instead of traditional treatment. She sees a new oncologist Wednesday, a real M.D., and I hope will cooperate with him. She lives an incredibly healthy lifestyle, and can't believe she would get cancer.

[HuckleB]

2. It's amazing that these people have to harm others before action is taken.

Ugh.

[RobertEarl]

3. Yes, well

Chemotherapy has been proven to work about 10% of the time, right?

It is called 'practicing' for a good reason.

[Warpy]

5. Some leukemias are very treatable

Some cancers, like pancreatic cancer, are not, usually because they're discovered after they've begun to metastatize all over the body.

Cure rates vary by earliness of diagnosis and by type of cancer.

Your post is seriously in error.

[RobertEarl]

6. OK 12% of the time?

And the chemo is nasty crap. Everyone I've ever known, save one, who took it, is dead. YMMV.

[trotsky]

7. Survival rates

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/leukemiainchildren/overviewguide/childhood-leukemia-overview-survival-rates

The 5-year survival rate refers to the percentage of children who live at least 5 years after their cancer is found. Of course, many children live much longer than 5 years. With acute leukemias, children who are free of disease after 5 years are very likely to have been cured, as it very rare for these cancers to return after such a period of time.

Current 5-year survival rates are based on children first diagnosed and treated more than 5 years ago. Improvements in treatment since then may mean an even better outlook for children treated today.

The 5-year survival rate for children with ALL has greatly increased over time and is now more than 85% overall.

The 5-year survival rate for children with AML has also increased over time, and is now in the range of 60% to 70%. However, survival rates can vary depending on the subtype of AML. For instance, most studies suggest that the cure rate for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a subtype of AML, is now higher than 80%.

Significantly more than 12%. What are the 5-year survival rates for your preferred method of treatment?

[Warpy]

8. You have a hell of a lot of reading to do

Start with NIH and CDC, progress to Medscape.

Bypass Natural News, they've lied to you for years. Get some real knowledge instead of quackery, magical thinking, and superstition.

[hifiguy]

4. Quackery is quackery and no quack

should be allowed to pretend that they are practicing medicine. Medicine is SCIENCE-BASED.