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* Philip Willan, ''Obituary – Luigi di Bella'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', 8 July 2003, p. 25. |
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* Di Bella L., ''Orientamenti fisiologici nella terapia delle emopatie''. Bull. Sc. Med. 1974; 145:1–3 |
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* Di Bella L., Rossi M.T., Scalera G., ''Perspectives in Pineal Function''. Prog. Brain. Res. 1979; 52:475–478 |
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* Di Bella L., Bruschi C., Gualano L., ''Melatonin effects on megakaryocyte membrane patch-clamp outward K+ current''. Med. Sci. Monit. 2002; 8(12):527–531 |
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* Di Bella L., Gualano L., ''Key Aspects of Melatonin Physiology: Thirty Years of Research''. Neuro Endocrinol. Lett. 2006; 27(4):425–432 |
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* Di Bella G., ''Complete objective response to biological therapy of plurifocal breast carcinoma''. Neuro Endocrinol. Lett. 2008; 29(6):857–866 |
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* Di Bella G., "The DI Bella Method", Neuro Endocrinology letters 2010, Vol.31 Supp, 1, 1-43 |
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* Di Bella G., "The Di Bella Method (DBM) improved survival, objective response and performance status in a retrospective observational clinical study on 122 cases of breast cancer.", Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2011;32(6):751-62. |
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Luigi di Bella (Linguaglossa, 17 July 1912 – Modena, 1 July 2003) was an Italian medical doctor and physiology professor. In the late 1980s, he created a purported treatment for cancer that precipitated an international controversy.
Di Bella graduated in medicine at Bari University, and worked as an army doctor in Greece (1941-1943). In 1948, he became a professor of physiology at the University of Modena, where he had been working since 1939.
In 1963 Di Bella began his studies and experiments about some types of blood cancer. During the late 1980s, Di Bella developed a cocktail of drugs, vitamins and hormones (Melatonin, ACTH and Somatostatin) which he argued would be useful in fighting cancer. Following national exposure in 1997 and 1998, several cancer patients from around Italy traveled to his clinic seeking access to a "miracle cure". In 1998 Italian medical authorities (Ministero della salute), declared his treatment to be without scientific merit[1]
The final rejection of Di Bella's method was expressed in a letter (written on 30 December 2005) by the Chairman of the Board of Health Mario Condorelli to Health Minister Francesco Storace (AN): "The working group of the Board of Health considers that it has no evidence of the effectiveness of "multitherapy Di Bella" and therefore does not recommend a new clinical trial; this could be not only ineffective but also harmful to the patients by denying them (or procrastinating) access to anti-cancer drugs of proven effectiveness."[2]. Besides, Müllner, editorialist for The British Medical Journal, hardly criticized the method and procedure of the Italian NHS trials. [3]
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- ^ Evaluation of an unconventional cancer treatment (the Di Bella multitherapy): results of phase II trials in Italy
- ^ Mario Riccio, Gianna Milano, Storia di una morte opportuna. Il diario del medico che ha fatto la volontà di Welby, Sironi Editore, Milano, 2008, ISBN 88-518-0106-1, ISBN 978-88-518-0106-9
- ^ Müllner M. , "Bella's therapy: the last word? The evidence would be stronger if the researchers had randomised their studies", BMJ. 1999 Jan 23;318(7178):208-9.