from an article in the newspaper : forced to take refuge in the Vatican because they help cancer patients Stefano Lorenzetto - 16 / 11/2008. Read the full article . The Professor Joseph Zora , then lecturer at the Institute of Clinical Oncology, University of Messina, and Dr. Anna Tarantino, a biologist at the same institute, formed one of the most promising pairs in research on tumors, and certainly not because they were (are) husband and wife. Is that thirty years ago, by injecting mice with cancer Corynebacterium parvum, a bacterium belonging to the family of the pathogen that causes diphtheria, had seen amazing regressions of evil.
But then, in 1979, Professor Save rio D'Aquino, Director of the institute, asked them to experiment in the laboratory a serum obtained from feces and urine of goats, which had been taken by a veterinarian of Agropoli (Salerno), Dr. Liborio Bonifaci o. "We discovered that some anti-tumor effect in guinea pigs sick him," says Professor Zora today. "The next year I illustrated the results of that research at a conference in Saturnia. It was the end. Everything my wife and I had done until then was not worth anything. "
What I would do from then on would be worth even less. Yet the preparation, the result of their research, the IMB (immunomodulating biological) has nothing to do with serum Bonifacio. It is a product which has the active LPS, lipopolysaccharide extracted from Gram-negative bacteria, widely studied at the University of Tours, to support the cancer patients during chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
ostracism was complete. What is more persecution. It's been a quarter of a century, but the memory is still piercing. The couple was forced to take refuge in Vatican territory, namely in the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, which has extraterritorial. "I do not know if this drug cures cancer, I only know that before God and me same as a man and a priest, it is my duty to accept and help these poor people, "said the priest, Don Vincenzo Paglia, the Chaplain of the Community of Sant'Egidio, who later became bishop of Terni. The poor were not only the spouses but also the Zora 50.00 0 sick the next ten years were examined and treated free of charge, a sine qua non to operate within the confines of the Holy See. Whoever wanted to, left a donation for expenses.
But still not enough. Professor Zora had to suffer the humiliation of an arrest, spending two nights in jail, to be investigated a dozen times, leaving the chair of oncology at the University of Rome. In 1992, to break the siege, he took his family - his wife and four daughters, one of which is now a degree in biology as a mother - and took refuge in Switzerland. "We slept in a residence in Morcote, Canton Ticino, and while my lawyers took care of the criminal proceedings." There being no arrest warrants hanging over his head, like a good Italian citizen it has always presented in the courtroom for questioning.
The fire was in his fate: he was born in 1950 in Nola, Campania the country that gave birth to Giordano Bruno. For five years Professor Zora came back to life on home soil. Seared the dramatic experience, however remains in the area of \u200b\u200bsecurity has taken up residence in Campione d'Italy, that little piece of beautiful country, just two kilometers square, encysted in the territory of the Swiss Confederation, between Mendrisio and Lugano. He established the Foundation Raphael, a scientific body of non-profit organization under Swiss law, based in Melide for the study of therapies in cancer and degenerative diseases. It is the honorary president Monsignor Giovanni D'Ercole, bureau chief of general affairs section at the Vatican Secretariat of State, when that was aired on Rai was proclaimed by a survey "the most trusted face of Italian TV." For four years Professor Zora returned to teach at the University of Milan. In his practice of Champion is now the man of the funnel is watch your back from China a huge crucifix that he commissioned an artist from Naples and portraits of John Paul II, Padre Pio. Every year is the tomb of the saint of Pietrelcina. "The last time, surrounded by people who suffer, I asked him, but what am I doing here? I do not miss anything. So I prayed for others. As prevention. " For years he returned to Rome to attend a free hosted with HIV in the community of Don Pierino Gelmini. Every two months down to Sant'Antimo to visit them for free, cancer patients in the area of Scampia-Secondigliano. "I'll have to: is my land."
What has the IMB with serum Bonifacio?
"Absolutely nothing. It has not been obtained from the goat but bacterial strains acquired from a U.S. institution organic. There are two acquittals in the court of Rome, a judge of the court and the other Gennaro Luigi Mario Almeida, who attest. The second quote says that "the distribution of the product, not included in the official pharmacopoeia but not in itself illegal, fraudulent purpose is unrelated to hostilities but a note of the pharmaceutical industry". " When he began
to distribute it?
"The first treatments of consenting terminally ill patients who had exhausted all conventional therapies had them in 1980, having undergone an improvement in physical conditions and a prolonged survival compared to the official prognosis. When Bonifacio in 1982, now close to death, he stopped to deliver his serum, there were these thousands of patients who did not know where to turn. I could keep the IMB for me? I began to give him a place in the Testaccio in Rome. The police arrived. A week later I was in St. Peter's Square. Thousands of patients on the steps, three hours vials to dispense with the Vatican bodyguards who watched at a safe distance, without intervene. The next day I found accommodations by Don Straw. "
Have you ever prescribed to stop the cancer care?
"Never. On the contrary, I often have to recommend the most recalcitrant of the first three lines of chemotherapy. Only later do not recommend to insist. "
To those who have life spans?
"It's hard to say. Nobody does miracles. But I have patients who have recovered already for 21 years or acceptably living with cancer. Unfortunately I was not here all the records: every time they kidnapped me, then I have never been returned. "
can not prove whether it works or his chemo IMB.
"True. But Professor Joseph Martines, professor of therapy Medical University of Chieti-Pescara, the IMB has treated 461 patients of both sexes, aged between 20 and 70 years, with 12 different types of advanced cancer: lung, colon, pancreas, brain, breast, Bladder ... Divided them into two categories: 307 had practiced chemo or radiotherapy and were in progression of disease, 154 had not undergone any treatment because of the seriousness of the harm or by choice. After four years, 38% of patients in the first group and 48% of those of the latter were still alive. This shows that the response is better if the immune system has not been destroyed by anticancer drugs. "
What do you think of chemotherapy?
"Compared to pure herbicides that were used 25 years ago, today are much more selective and less toxic. They are also very expensive. On average, a single course of six sessions to treat breast cancer on a woman of about 60 pounds involves a cost of 7,800 €, as the antineoplastic are measured in milligrams and should be compared to body weight. "
But if the IMB is so effective, because the pharmaceutical industry has not really seized?
"I'll tell because it is the truth. Between 82 and 83, through a photographer friend of Catania, I know Vito Scalia, former Minister of Scientific Research, which I arranged a meeting with Alberto Aleotti, owner of the Menarini and then president of Farmindustria. We meet at the Hotel Bernini Bristol in Rome, this Scalia and my wife. At the end Aleotti tells me: "Professor, the IMB does not interest me because it is an organic product. It is not a chemical, it is not patentable, so there can never be mine. " In fact we only managed to patent the method of preparation. "
But he sold the patent to the OCG Ag, a pharmaceutical company in Bern.
"What, however, the factory as a homeopathic product, recorded in 1996 by Swiss health authorities by the trade name Adjuvant plus. I am a milliliter vials of injectable intramuscular freely sold in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and San Marino. "
Homeopathy uses diluted active ingredients above the Avogadro number. From a chemical point of view these drugs are judged by a medicine absolute zero.
"The Adjuvant plus is diluted in decimal, according to the German rules of homeopathy, and the active ingredient is present. Moreover, the WHO has recently been codified that lipopolysaccharide can only be given in micrograms, would otherwise be toxic. But she is talking about the products diluted in hundredths, where in fact the active ingredient is no longer present. "
chemists expect homeopaths show finally a repeatable experiment, at least one, in order to distinguish the normal water from the water homeopathy.
"You can not encode all the canons that have been established by Tom or Dick. In my vials is not only the memory of the active ingredient. There is the Lps.
cost a fortune.
"No, 5 euro each. Albert Sabin
not even got out a dollar dall'antipolio.
"We do the same. The OCG only Ag sponsors scientific research of the Fondazione Raphael. I live in my profession. "
And how do you pay?
"A normal fee: 150 € 100 the first visit and subsequent ones. Children and the poor have never paid.
Excuse me if I insist, but I often ran into financial speculation on the skin of patients.
"I understand. I live in the sunshine. I declare € 90,000 annual income. Never had the findings of Finance. Never a charge for fraud or injury. "
many court proceedings?
"Ten. I've always come to testify in my favor patients. Seven or eight filings. A single conviction for possession of unauthorized medicine. " Forget
arrest.
"From Sunday to Tuesday evening, following the seizure of the funnel by NAS Florence. A traumatic experience but also useful. Locked me up in the prison of Arezzo with the clothes I was wearing. At 20, during the hours of air, I was approached by dozens of detainees. They already knew everything. Radio Scarpa works. They offered me new pajamas and toothbrush brand, cooked for me. These things are not forgotten. "
No one defended it?
"Carlo Taormina, because it was my lawyer. And then the radicals: Emma Bonino, Mauro Mellini, Marco Taradash, Adele I ".
has no process in dance?
"Not even one."
hath been given an explanation of its legal problems?
"I had shown a serious research in the university, which was endorsed by the Director of Institute Professor D'Aquino, the serum Bonifacio was not fresh water, as he had ruled in 1970 the committee chaired by Peter Bucalossi, director of the Institute of Cancer in Milan, after a trial of only 16 days on just eight patients undergoing preagonica. That also explains why a second commission appointed by the Minister Renato Altissimo, and in which sat the pharmacologist Silvio Garattini and other luminaries, years later categorically condemns the trial of the funnel, arguing that there was no scientific basis for the start. At least to Professor Luigi Di Bella testing was given. "
Di Bella has known?
"In 1979, then in very difficult times. I brought him in Modena, the results of tests conducted by the IMB guinea pigs. Urged me to stay the course. "
E Bonifacio who knew?
"Yes. I consider the biological father of immunology. He had the intuition to resume studies in the year one thousand by the flourishing medical school of Salerno, which healed skin defects with a concretion of goat feces called Belz. I get him a potion to be injected intramuscularly.
But it was opposed.
"It is the fate of pioneers. My wife has been studying shark cartilage for years, until now ridiculed by mainstream medicine. Powder, diluted and injected in animals, has been shown to reduce the cancerous mass and slower growth because blocks the blood supply of the tumor. Remember the outcry over the discovery of Professor Judah Folkman? Two proteins, endostatin and angiostatin, decisive in the fight against cancer because they prevent the vascularization of tumors. Watch the event can be found in shark cartilage. "
has made her an idea of \u200b\u200bwhy a body develops cancer and another does not?
"One carries it behind GM and the other not. This does not mean it goes off anyway. There are triggers. "
What?
"Environmental pollution, diet, emotional upheavals. But in the first place I would put the stress. Stress kills us, makes havoc of our balances. Life is based four blocks: neuro, psycho, endocrine, immune. Gives one, and the whole building comes down. "
Have you ever had relatives affected by cancer?
"My mother in 1970. Advanced breast cancer. I chose to do the gynecologist, but I became a doctor for this. His two brothers, doctors, insisted that was undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He would not do anything. She died in 2002 at 87 years. Of stroke. "
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