In the News
Letter to The Times
28th May 2006
The following letter appeared in The Times on Friday 26th May 2006:From the Communications Secretary to TRH Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall
Sir,
In “All in the Mind” (report, 24th May), it was reported that The Prince of Wales has “suggested that doctors prescribe coffee enemas to cancer patients”. This is not true. In a speech to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2004, The Prince said he personally knew of one cancer patient who had used Gerson therapy (a treatment which includes the use of coffee enemas), and who was still alive seven years after being told that her cancer was terminal. The Prince went on to say that while “one patient’s experience cannot hold water as evidence” that Gerson Therapy worked, more evidence was needed to determine what the risks and benefits of the therapy might be.
Paddy Harverson
Communication Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales
Clarence House