Miracle Peruvian herbal cancer remedy cheats terminally ill out of savings

Vilcacora was to be a wonderful drug against cancers. It turned out to be a way to make money off of terminally ill people. Patients must pay about $1,700 for the cure, which is a plane ticket to Peru, a dirty hotel and some herbs. "It was the only hope as it is hard to get genuine herb in Poland," says one of the patients. People who tried vilcacora claim that it helps. "This drug is no kind of medicine and it cannot help anyone," claims Polish cancer authority Prof. Jacek Jass. It is however a way to make money as the book about this wonderful treatment sold 300,000 copies in Poland. Some say that bad words about vilcacora is the bad will of doctors, but the fact is that no information about this treatment was ever published in any scientific magazine. (Zycie, May 27-28, page 1,3) M.M.