Liu made the solution in his apartment for rent in Beijing by mixing the citric acid with sodium chlorite, according to a report that shared at the beginning of this month on his Scarsack which revealed that a “violent explosion” occurred when he made a mistake.
“The explosion obscured my vision,” Liu wrote. “Dense clouds of chlorine dioxide broke in my face, filling my eyes, nose and mouth. I came across again in the apartment, running to the bathroom to wash the gas from my eyes and respiratory tract. My lungs were burning. Later, I would have found 4-5 cuts on my top of the top of the top of the top of the top of the upper part of my glass thighs. 3 -year -old daughter was close when the explosion took place.
Liu started a preclinical study on animals in 2016, before starting to use the highly concentrated solution to treat human patients in recent years. He states that between China and Germany, to date he has treated 20 patients.
When evidence was asked to support his demands of effectiveness, Liu shared the connections to a series of preprints, which were not subjected to an equal review, with Wired. He also shared a deck for a $ 5 million seed round in a startup focused on the United States that would have provided chlorine dioxide injections.
The presentation contains a series of “study cases” of patients who edited – including a dog – but rather than presenting detailed scientific data, the deck contains disturbing images of patient tumors. The deck also contains, as proof of the effectiveness of the treatment, a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation with a patient who apparently was treating a liver tumor with chlorine dioxide.
“The screenshots of WhatsApp’s chat with patients or their doctors are not evidence of effectiveness, but this is the only proof it provides,” says Alex Morozov, an oncologist who has supervised hundreds of pharmaceutical studies in several companies including Pfizer. “Needless to say, until appropriate studies are conducted and published in peer-reviewed magazines or presented in a reliable conference, no patient should be treated if not in the context of clinical studies.”
Wired spoke with a patient of Liu, whose descriptions of the treatment seem to undermine his affirmations of effectiveness and raise serious questions about his safety.
“I bought the needles online and created chlorine dioxide alone [then] I injected him into the tumor and lymph nodes alone, “says the patient, a Chinese citizen who lives in the United Kingdom. Wired has granted his anonymity to protect his privacy.
Previously the patient had taken oral chlorine dioxide solutions as an alternative treatment for cancer, but, dissatisfied with the results, he contacted Liu via WhatsApp. On an evening before spring, he made his first injection of chlorine dioxide and, he says, almost immediately he suffered negative side effects.
“He went well after the injection, but I was awakened by severe pain [like] I had never experienced in my life, “he says.” The pain lasted from three to four days “.
Despite the pain, he says, he injured himself again two months later and a month later he traveled to China, where Liu, despite not having medical training, injected it, using an anesthetic cream to numb the skin.
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