Di Bella Method

Lolis197138

Hi,

Has anyone heard of the Di Bella Method? 

"Di Bella therapy is an alternative cancer treatment developed by an Italian physiologist. It is a mixture of the drugs somatostatin and bromocriptine, as well as vitamins, melatonin, and sometimes low doses of chemotherapy drugs or other substances combined in varying amounts. Therapy is tailored to the type of cancer and the results of blood tests."

Thanks.

Lolis

leggo

Hi Lolis. I have heard of this therapy and have heard him speak on a video of a conference many years ago. I'm usually the first in line for what others may consider quackery, but I need to understand the science behind it. I didn't understand this protocol so I lost interest. I liken it to Dr. Burzynski. I don't get it but I firmly believe it helps a particular TYPE of cancer. In Dr. Burzynski's case, glioblastoma. In Dr. Di Bella's case, prostate cancer. The Di Bella protocol has had some success in that regard. The treatment did have many supporters, particularly in Europe, so who knows. I believe at one point, it was promising enough that certain clinics in Rome were forced, by law, to offer it as treatment. Never heard what happened after that, though.

Momine

Someone told me about this the other day, for prostate cancer however.

According to the American Cancer Society:

"Di Bella claimed to have cured thousands of patients, but most of the records he kept could not confirm this claim. There is evidence from laboratory studies that some components of Di Bella therapy, such as melatonin and somatostatin, may have some effect on cancer cells, but it is not clear whether they would have the same effect in the human body. Bromocriptine is approved in the United States for use with mainstream treatment to reduce the size of some pituitary tumors before surgery and during radiation therapy. However, studies have not shown that combining these agents, as is done in Di Bella therapy, is effective in treating cancer.

Italy's Health Ministry conducted a study in 26 medical centers involving nearly 400 patients with different forms of advanced cancer. The final report, which included 395 patients, showed that no tumors went into complete remission (meaning they disappeared completely) and only 3 (less than 1%) went into partial remission (meaning they shrank by at least half). A quarter of the subjects died, and more than half got worse. The researchers concluded that Di Bella therapy did not deserve further clinical testing in patients with advanced cancer. Di Bella and his supporters criticized this study for selecting patients with advanced disease and for varying from his protocols.

A study was also published on the survival rates of cancer patients treated by Di Bella from 1971 to 1997. A review of 248 of his records (the 16% of his patients for whom good records were kept) showed that the treatment did not improve their survival, and may have had a negative effect compared to the outcome for similar patients receiving standard treatment."

Lolis197138

Thanks for the replies ladies. I have been reading on the internet and I guess there is not a lot of evidence of the validity of this method. 

Sefonrg

Hi yes, The January 28, 2014 the court of Lecce (italian city located in Puglia region southeast) order the reimbursement by the town ASL (National Health Service) , of 25,000 euro to a woman suffering from cancer who sustained a treatment with the Di Bella method; the court declared that "emerges a clinical situation in which, alongside a progressive disease, are obvious reductions and even the disappearance of some injury, an improvement compared to the pre-treatment period '

by 2013 there were hundreds of court cases the courts have ordered the full reimbursement of care incurred by patients as the patients in question found absolute benefit and healing, which however did not occur with the "traditional" medicine

the trails were conducted in the 90's with catastrophic result on the treated patients and after many years of investigation here the answer

Experimentation of Di Bella's method is vitiated by serious irregularities. Worse, some of the 386 cancer patients who experienced the "multidrug" (MDB) of the physician in Modena (italian city) would be used as guinea pigs treated with "breakdowns and imperfect" drugs, it is not known what effects on health. And higher institute of Health, even knowing this, would not warned 50 of the 51 hospitals d 'Italy who experienced the protocols. These are the conclusions of the long and meticulous investigation opened two years ago by the prosecutor of Turin (italian city) Raffaele Guariniello, following a number of complaints, on trial in the 4 "reference centers" in Turin (Molinette, San Giovanni old seat, Mauritian and Sant 'Anna) and 4 of the province (the Chivasso hospital, Orbassano, Chieri and Cirè). A 'survey which does not enter into the merits of the' effectiveness or otherwise of the treatment, but only analyzes the regularity of the trial. Four defendants, all leaders of 'National Institute of Health (ISS): Roberto Donato Raschetti and Greek, the trial coordinators of 1998, Stefania Spila Alegiani, responsible for galenicals, and Elena Ciranni, who took care of the relations with the various clinical centers . Grave 's offense: "drug delivery failures or imperfect" (punishable, according to' Article 443 of the Criminal Code, with imprisonment up to three years). The director Giuseppe Benagiano, at the time under investigation, was then filed. No responsibility for the 'former health minister Rosy Bindi, heard as a witness in secret, in Rome, to' start of 'years. The four suspects have received the '' notice of closure investigation. " A sort of indictment announcement, but then that has not arrived: thanks to the law Carotti, the defendants requested and obtained from the Pg of the Supreme Court Nino Abbate transfer of 'investigation in Florence. With the curious grounds that the "implicated" drugs produces them the 'Florentine military Pharmacological Institute. Needless l 'opposition Guariniello who, judgments of the Supreme Court to hand, countered that the 443 does not punish the production or possession, but the administration of medication faults (which occurred precisely in Turin). So it will be up to the prosecutor of Florence - that 'last year had already filed an' other inquiry on Di Bella protocols - draw conclusions: bringing to judgment or ask the 'storage. Everything will depend on the 'interpretation of irregularities emerged in Turin: errors in good faith, or fraudulent conduct? For Guariniello, proof of intent would in a letter sent in the '98 in a Roman hospital, asking guidance on the conservation and the composition of the "solutions to retinoids" planned for Protocols 1 and 9. In the letter of' Iss STATED executives that those substances have a "validity" of only 3 months, after which "expire" and be thrown. Too bad the same directive has not branched to the other 50 hospitals who experienced the cure. And that in fact continued, unaware of all, to administer those widely expired solutions (even old 4, 5, 9 months) and "impaired." Not only a serious technical error would have halved the amount of a component, an active ingredient, essential for the 'effectiveness of those solutions: l' "Axeroftol palmitate". In practice, for the two protocols, one experienced was not the multitherapy Di Bella, but a "variation on the theme" undeclared. So com 'it had emerged in the' 98 for another two protocols, hastily withdrawn after Guariniello had discovered there some missing and some other substances (such as tamoxifen Professor Umberto Veronesi) added by a mysterious hand. But that chapter is still open. In Turin.

the case is followed by Marco Travaglio (the best independent italian Journalist on the country)