An advertisement for a hospital in China has spread widely in the past period, including its success in using a new technology for treating cancer, as it announced that it has a first in using surgical treatment with local freezing. Many patients, especially Saudi patients, were affected by this misleading propaganda, which prompted them to travel to China and visit the hospital, lk to no avail!
This topic was brought up at the American Oncology Association’s 2013 conference, which started its work in the conference hall at the Sheraton Dammam, with the participation of 30 lecturers specializing in oncology and hematology from Canada and Saudi Arabia, during which 32 lectures discussed developments and options for treating cancer and blood tumors.
The oncology consultants from Makkah, Riyadh and Jeddah, Dr. Abdullah Al-Zahrani, Dr. Khaled Al-Saleh, Dr. Shadi Khayyat, and Dr. Mutab Al-Fahidi agreed that Saudi patients were affected by misleading propaganda for a Chinese center that claimed the possibility of treating cancer by freezing it, which prompted many patients to travel to China and visit the center that sold them an illusion. Where a number of them died there and many of them returned in a very late state of illness and entered intensive care, pointing out that the center ignored many of the requests that Saudi doctors addressed to it to communicate or even send scientific research on which this alleged treatment is based.
He assured "He", a consultant of family medicine, Dr. Anwar Youssef, that these announcements are misleading, and warned that patients should go to these Chinese hospitals, so that they do not fall victim to inhumane extortion by brokers whose main purpose is to drain the pockets of patients and their families in an unethical way, as the patient''s spending In China, within 19 days, to more than 100 thousand dollars, including travel tickets, housing, transportation, translation and treatment, noting that the Chinese treatment methods of freezing the tumor "local freezing" cannot be adopted and has not shown any positive results on patients'' cases, on the contrary. These treatment methods have caused a deterioration in the cases of many patients, pointing out that cancer control societies in Saudi Arabia are making an effort to stop illusion brokers for treating cancer patients in the country.
