A doctor who put pressure on a patient with advanced cancer to pay £13,000 for alternative treatments, including sound and light therapy, has been struck off.He wrongly told the man: "You have had all the standard treatments and you are running out of treatment options," the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found.Dr Kenyon's prescription in May 2022 included sonodynamic/photodynamic therapy as well as the supplements cannabidiol, claricell and similase, the MTPS said.
The patient was asked to pay a further £20,000 if the initial course of treatment was unsuccessful, the tribunal heard. He was told there was a 10% chance of his stage 4 prostate cancer being cured, which was a "total fabrication", the MTPS found. The patient "was vulnerable and... made to feel under pressure to have expensive treatment that was not in his best interests", it added.
The man, who eventually refused the treatment, died in May 2023 after continuing with conventional therapy.undercover investigationIn 2013, the tribunal found he failed to give good care. The following year, it said he made a misleading cancer cure claim.His former clinic went into liquidation in March 2023 and has debts of more than £154,000, according to Companies House.
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