Revici's Guided Chemotherapy is an ineffective cancer treatment devised by Emanuel Revici (1896–1997).[1]

Revici's early work on experimental chemical-based treatments for cancer between 1920–1941 attracted a degree of support. However his work increasingly found disfavor with the scientific and medical communities and his license was revoked in 1993.[1]

Revici's Guided Chemotherapy is based on the idea that all illness is caused by an "imbalance" of metabolism.[2] The treatment is to give a mixture of chemical substances (usually including lipid alcohol and various metals) by mouth or injection. A Clinical Appraisal Group was organized in January 1963 to evaluate Revici's cancer treatment. The group concluded that the treatment has no value.[3] The American Cancer Society notes that Revici's Guided "chemotherapy" is different from modern conventional chemotherapy, and states: "Available scientific evidence does not support claims that Revici's guided chemotherapy is effective in treating cancer or any other disease. It may also cause potentially serious side effects."[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Cohen, MA (1998). "Emanuel Revici, M.D.: Innovator in nontoxic cancer chemotherapy 1896-1997". Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 4 (2): 140–145. doi:10.1089/acm.1998.4.137. PMID 9628204.
  2. ↑ Vickers, A. (2004). "Alternative Cancer Cures: "Unproven" or "Disproven"?". CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 54 (2): 110–118. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.521.2180. doi:10.3322/canjclin.54.2.110. PMID 15061600. S2CID 35124492.
  3. ↑ Lyall, David (1965). "Treatment of Cancer by the Method of Revici". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 194 (3): 279–280. doi:10.1001/jama.1965.03090160057014. PMID 5897344.
  4. ↑ "Complementary and Alternative Medicine". American Cancer Society. Retrieved 9 August 2018.

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