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ABC investigates Tijuana clinics.

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The ABC television program Primetime Thursday reported January 21st on its investigation of how representatives of Tijuana clinics that offer bogus treatments mislead people with cancer.

Senior correspondent Chris Wallace began the first of three program segments devoted to the investigation with the story of Sacramento television news anchor Patti Lynn Davis who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36. Davis decided to forego chemotherapy after having surgery. Instead she received a protocol of coffee enemas and a diet of fruits and vegetables. Only after she discovered that her cancer had spread Davis started chemotherapy, but it was too late. She died less than three years following her initial diagnosis.

Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD, chief of Surgery Branch at the National Cancer Institute expressed his outrage about desperate people being exploited. Asked about "alternative" therapies as a public health problem. Rosenberg said: "When patients turn down treatments of known effectiveness to receive treatments that have very little chance of being [of] benefit, I see that as a major public health problem."

Primetime presented hidden-camera recordings of the sales pitches of several exhibitors...

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