Comments on: Liverpool NHS PCT Drops Supernatural Cancer Claims from Website

By: Melody Lewis

Melody Lewis — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:13:57 +0000

That is ridiculous that the PTC would help fund such quackery. It’s a shame to see people in such a medical state be preyed upon with merchants of false hope.

By: Avatare

Avatare — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:25:52 +0000

Its truly sad, that people play with such bad diseases like cancer, i cant believe it. Yes and your rss isn´t working for me either!

By: Siobhan Chhuon

Siobhan Chhuon — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:59:05 +0000

Heya Im attempting to sign up for your rss , but it’s not working properly. What’s going wrong ?

By: Zeno

Zeno — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:38:16 +0000

The letter says Iscador is a ‘licensed medicine’? Licensed by whom? The MHRA?

I can find no such license on the MHRA’s website. Is there some other body in the UK that licenses medicines?

However, the 2002 MHRA report says:

“Clinical trials carried out with IscadorTM, a product produced from the naturally fermented plant juice of mistletoe, have concluded that IscadorTM may exhibit some weak antitumour effects but should only be used alongside conventional therapy in the long term treatment of cancer.”

There is a subtle difference between this and what the PCT are claiming and there I can find no safety evaluation.

Also, according to their 2008 annual report, a Dr Thomas Whitmarsh of the MHRA apparently attends a ‘yearly meeting on research into ‘ISCADOR’ and developing clinical guidelines’. I wonder if these guidelines have been issued?

By: BillyJoe

BillyJoe — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:51:39 +0000

Yes, it’s time homoeopathy was diluted out of existence.
…wait

By: Michael Kingsford Gray

Michael Kingsford Gray — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:16:53 +0000

Well done, sir.
If we rational folk chip away at the edges of these infantile wishful ‘thinking’ practices, then eventually we shall be chipping away at the core.