Both when it comes to Simoncini

Actually, I seek to find effective alternative and natural treatments for cancer.  I also seek to find the truth as best I can about treatments and theories I find questionable.  I am skeptical about anyone who comes along with some discovery, accompanied by a book and or treatment they are hawking, which claims a universal cause or cure for cancer, and as moderator of this forum as well as host of a 1200 plus member Yahoo group dealing with natural cancer alternatives I feel it is incumbent upon me to check out any such claims.

When it comes to Simoncini, I first read of his successes in a mainstream magazine (I believe it was Time) and was intrigued to say the least, but also more than a little bit skeptical about his claim that all cancer was a fungus.

I soon found that he appeared to be much more involved with promoting his book and himself than he was with actually treating cancer and the more I looked the worse it got.  I also happened to encounter two people in my groups who traveled to see Simoncini in Italy and came away disappointed and with negative opinions - and they both warned against anyone seeing him.  Of course two people is hardly a large sample, but it is two more than the number of people I know who were helped by Simoncini.

Do you not find it odd that there is no reference at all to any institutions he attended, even on his own website?  Simoncini promotes himself as an MD specializing in oncology, but if Simoncini, along with his brother, lost his license then he is no longer an MD is he? Certainly not in Italy.

When it comes to Simoncini "curing" cancers, I have seen no convincing evidence or data about Simoncini's purported successes with injecting bicarbonate of soda.  What I have seen is a huge amount of hype, mostly tied into a campaign to promote his book "Cancer is a Fungus" about his bogus theory which would have us believe that all cancer is fungus.  I have also seen questionable testimonials and some tragic failures, such as the wrongful death in Italy that lead to his prosecution.

Besides the death in Italy, a Dutch breast cancer patient died in October 2007 in a Netherlands clinic after she was treated with sodium bicarbonate injections by Tullio Simoncini. The cause of death was metabolic alkalinosis and the circumstances of her death, including multiple injections of baking soda into the her breast is reported to be subject to investigation by the department of public prosecution/the police and the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate. It is also reported that Simoncini treated a total of six patients at the Netherlands clinic where the woman died and was not successful in a single case.

You can read reports about two of Simoncini's questionable testimonials, as well as the case of the death at the Netherlands clinic here:

http://www.transgallaxys.com/~kanzlerzwo/showtopic.php?threadid=3210

Then there is the case of poor Marjolean Bouwman, once highly touted by Somoncini as one of his big success stories:

When Marjolein Bouwman was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was advised to take conventional therapy. Instead, she decided to contact Tullio Simoncini in Rome, where she was given a number of injections with sodium bicarbonate by him. The other part of the treatment consisted of infusions of sodium bicarbonate, which Marjolein adminstered herself in her own home in the Netherlands. Soon after, Simoncini declared that Marjolein was completely cured. Ecstatically happy, Marjolein became a staunch advocate of Simoncini's sodium bicarbonate therapy. However, undeniable proof of her miracle cure was never delivered, in spite of repeated promises.

A few months ago, Marjolein stated that Simoncini had deceived her and that she had not been cured at all. At that time, her cancer had already metastasized so extensively that she had a less than 40% chance of recovery. She also said that Simoncini's useless therapy had caused her to lose valuable time, which might ell have been fatal.

Marjolein Bouwman died of metastasized ovarian cancer on November 2, 2008. She was only 25 years old and the mother of a little boy.

I call it like I see it and the bottom line to me is that Simoncini is more successful at self promotion than at healing and cancer is no more a fungus than it is universally caused by Hulda Clark's mysterious flukes in the books she promotes (love her cleanses though), nor is caused by unresolved emotional trauma (from another book seller) or any other single cause promoted by some magic cure promoter's hype.