Yale undergraduate Mateo Ramírez-Valentini writes about families who travel long distances for experimental treatments. He focuses on how some of these treatments are scams or over-hyped. One Argentinean family raised $350k after being enticed by notorious cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski.
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yaleglobalhealthreview.comMigrating for a Miracle: The Geographic Divide in Rare Cancer TreatmentsBY MATEO RAMÍREZ-VALENTINI Medical Migration in Rare Pediatric Cancers In 2021, an eight-year-old girl named Delfi Bollo traveled from Córdoba, Argentina to Houston, Texas, seeking a treatment that…
Mateo's family hosted the Argentinean family
"The [Burzynski] clinic offered Delfi an experimental treatment called antineoplastons, a drug that has never been approved by the FDA. Yet it provided almost no support in managing her care. My mother and I spent nights transcribing hour-long voicemails from her doctors because no one else would."
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In September 2021, the Burzynski clinic treated three Argentinian children at the same time: Delfi (8), Ignacio (7), and Ezra (2). This comes many years after Burzynski’s toxic treatments were implicated in the death of 6-year-old Josia Cotto. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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