Insulin potentiation therapy
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Insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) is a therapy used by some physicians to treat cancer and other diseases, using insulin in combination with other drugs, including chemotherapy agents.
The principal proponent of this technique is Dr. Donato Perez Garcia (1958-), grandson of the discoverer, Dr. Donato Perez Garcia (1896-1971), who claims that IPT is especially effective with breast cancer. He suggests that it is also effective with a number of other cancers, including small-cell lung cancer and prostate cancer. Essentially, if a cancer can be significantly affected by existing chemotherapy drugs, then insulin potentiation therapy may be effective, without major side effects.
Currently, most doctors think that IPT is dangerous therapy without any evidence that it is effective [1] (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/ipt.html).
Even proponents of IPT agree that they have no evidence for it being efficient. Ayre's home page (http://www.contemporarymedicine.net/) claims that "there is at present no collection of scientific data to validate Insulin Potentiation Therapy as a treatment for malignant neoplastic diseases, or cancer."
The IPT.org site (http://ipt.org) claims "Many doctors and patients are looking for statistics, and we simply have to tell people that we do not have them. If they insist on having statistics, IPT is not yet for them."
External links
- Criticism of IPT (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/ipt.html)
- The original website about IPT (http://IPTQ.com)
- Listings for doctors who have IPT training (http://GetIPT.com)