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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      Although moving, this article in @washingtonpost by @petulad is really misleading, specifically about that Mexican clinic mentioned as a source of hope and at which the parents spent nearly $700,000 to treat their child for DIPG. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-much-would-you-pay-for-one-more-day-one-more-month-with-someone-you-love/2018/09/13/f6ad8c88-b75e-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html …

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      The clinic, of course, is almost certainly @019Clinica, where two quacks have been taking advantage of desperate families of children with DIPG with an unproven treatment. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/07/03/clinica-0-19-not-making-dipg-history-in-monterrey-part-1/ …

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      This clinic charges hundreds of thousands of dollars and Drs. Alberto Siller and Alberto Garcia refuse to publish even their survival statistics because they're "too busy taking care of patients." 3/

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      The @019Clinica protocol, such as it is, is a secret "make it up as you go along" combination of intraarterial chemotherapy and an unspecified immunotherapy. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/07/05/clinica-0-19-not-making-dipg-history-in-monterrey-part-2-of-3/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      The drugs include a cocktail of up to 18 drugs, many at very low doses. There is little or no biological plausibility. 5/

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

      Worse, there is harm. Children have been harmed, and parents have been stranded in Mexico, unable to leave because a medical flight is too expensive but racking up $2,000 a day. The tales are horrifying. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/07/17/clinica-0-19-making-dipg-history-part-3/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

          But do Drs. Siller and Garcia have any evidence? Well, yes they do, but it's remarkable for how unimpressive it is. There is nothing in their questionable survival statistics better than conventional therapy that can't be explained by selection bias. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/11/idoi-not-making-dipg-history-in-monterrey-part-4/ …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

          So @washingtonpost and @petulad's portraying @019Clinica with the question, "How much would you pay for one more day, one more month with someone you love?" without acknowledging the lack of evidence for its treatments and financial toxicity to the families is irresponsible. 8/8

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Sep 2018

          Oh, one last thing. Never, ever refer to what @019Clinica is doing as "experimental therapy." It's not. Drs. Siller and Garcia are not testing a therapy in clinical trials. They're selling it without evidence to the desperate parents of dying children. 8a/8

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