Complaint Counsel's Post Trial Brief - Federal Trade Commission

would not recommend that people self-medicate with herbal remedies in treating cancer, and that
he was sure there was a risk some people wil pursue herbal medications instead of effective
pharaceutical medications and thereby die. CCPF iM 244-45, 292. Duke reviewed the
literature and information regarding Respondents' products and found no evidence that those
products, or their ingredients, had been shown in clinical trals to be effective in the treatment of
cancer. CCPF iM 381-82,396-402,436-42. Indeed, to the contrar, Duke stated that the studies
he had reviewed on the pricipal ingredients in two of Respondents' products - shark carlage
(Bio*Shark) and essaic tea (7 Herb Formula) - questioned their effcacy in treating cancer.
CCPF iM 381-82,402. At tral, Duke also testified that he was "quite surrised" that most of the
chemcals in the plants used in the DCO Products "are not biblical." CCPF ~ 256.
LaMont testified that "cancer must be treated with conventional therapies." CCPF ~ 333.
LaMont stated that if in the course of doing a work -up on a patient, she found "a diagnosis that
looks like it could be cancer," she absolutely would refer the patient to a traditional physician
and would co-manage that patient's care with the physician. CCPF ~ 328. She ths that it is
"best that people follow the recommendations of
their oncologist and utilize protocols that are
proven to be most effective for their cancer and that they should be well-informed ofthe
potential value of
the aray of other therapies." CCPF ~ 355. She added that "(t)he awareness of
the powerl chemoprotective effects of plant foods and medicines should not influence patients
with cancer and other serous disease to abandon using the most effective methods that moder
medicine has to offer." CCPF ~ 357.
LaMont also testified that there have been no clincal studies perormed on the DCO
Products, and stated that these products "are not silver bullets." CCPF iM 352-53. LaMont
acknowledged that since the DCO products have not been tested, we do not know the
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