“It was fine after the injection, but I woke up by serious pain [like] I had never experienced in my life, “she says.” The pain lasted three to four days. “
Despite the pain, she says, she rejected herself again two months later, and a month later she traveled to China, where Liu, despite not had medical training, injected her, with the help of an anesthetic cream to numb the skin.
“Although this action fell technically outside the legal limits, in China, if the patient is competent and gives informed permission, such interventions with compassionate use rarely attract regulatory attention, unless damage is done,” Liu tells Wired.
Legal in China?
Experts in the field of Chinese medical regulations say that new treatments such as LiU's strict disorders must meet before they can be administered to patients. “It should go through the same steps in China as in the US, so that will entail clinical studies, get ethical approval in the hospitals, and then the situation should be revised by the Chinese government,” says Ames Gross, founder and president of Pacific Bridge Capital, says Wired. “I don't think it sounds very legal.” The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which handles all international press research, did not respond to a request for comments.
In addition to the initial pain, the chlorine dioxide injections also seem, the patient says, to have made the cancer worse.
“The tumor first shrinks, then it grows faster than before,” she says, adding: “My tumor has spread to the skin after injection. I suspect it is because the chlorine dioxide has broken the vein and the cancer cells go to the skin area.”
Liu did not agree with this assessment, instead blaming the fact that the patient had not completed the entire course of four injections within a month, as he usually prescribes.
