In the 90s the “care Di Bella“divided the Italian scientific community, with the Ministry of Health which, in the face of media and popular pressures, had in any case declared the method” ineffective “and without any supporting scientific evidence. Lucia Candian had been diagnosed with a ovarian cancer. The woman decided to treat herself with that method but unfortunately she died at the age of only 48.
The tragic news arrived from Treviso relaunches the controversy over the experiments proposed by the physiology professor Luigi Di Bella, a cure based on somatostatin, hormones, molecules and vitamins. An alternative method to chemotherapy that on the one hand earned the professor, who passed away in 2003 in Modena, the reputation of “luminary” and guru of alternative medicine, on the other that tout-court of “charlatan“. According to the scientists, in fact, his therapy would not bring benefits to patients or therapeutic effects on cancer. On the contrary, according to the statistics of studies carried out ad hoc to analyze the case, patients treated with the mix of somatostatin and hormones would live less than those treated with conventional therapies.
The health conditions of the 48-year-old, as reported by the local press, have worsened in recent months, so much so that she has been persuaded to rely on the care of the Ca ‘Foncello of Treviso for a series of exams and support visits. Just last Thursday, the last medical examinations had found a spread of the tumor to the abdominal organs. Lucia’s agony ended in 48 ore. The family has decided to allocate solidarity donations from friends, relatives and acquaintances to the Di Bella Foundation.
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