In Russia, oncology patients paid millions for "treatment" with dietary supplements

Hundreds of patients across the country bought the supplement "Peptide T-1", which was widely advertised on social networks as a drug for "specific fight and destruction of cancer cells". As the victims told Izvestia, they thought they were participating in clinical trials of a new cancer remedy and paid 10,000 rubles per bottle, but ended up spending hundreds of thousands of rubles.

But after the injection course of the "innovative drug" their condition worsened, the victims say, confirming this with medical documents.

Irina Gusakova, one of the victims, told Izvestia that she learned about the miracle supplements from one of the participants of patient chats.

"She told me about the "Live Earth" products, that there is black honey and fulvic acid, which can help me with oncology. I read that black honey is sapropel that is pulled from the deep and is very rich in vitamins and trace elements. I believed in this composition and decided to sign up for the campaign," said the victim.

The woman was injected with the drugs for three and a half months, during which she got worse and for a long time she had a temperature of up to 39 degrees Celsius.

As a result, patients with oncologic diagnoses, who also received no therapeutic effect, appealed to the Investigative Committee with a mass complaint.

But the founder of the group of companies "Live Earth" (manufacturer of "Peptide T-1") Gennady Koshelev, whose employees sold the drug, claims that he has never positioned this dietary supplement as a cure for cancer, and the complaints of patients considered one of the mechanisms of "raider seizure".

Read more in Izvestia's exclusive piece:

Cancer Opus: How cancer patients are being sold dietary supplements under the guise of medicine