Toronto doctor who treated patient for cancer they didn't have gets license revoked
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A family physician in Toronto has had his license revoked after it was found he treated a patient for cancer they did not have.
A family physician in Toronto has had his license revoked after it was found he treated a patient for cancer they did not have.
Dr. Akbar Nauman Khan is the founder of Medicor Cancer Centres Inc., a specialized cancer treatment centre located on Yonge Street, born from Khan’s vision that “government-funded health system was too inadequate to meet the needs of cancer patients," according to its website.
Khan was first brought to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) in February 2022 over allegations that he failed to maintain standards of practice while treating a dozen cancer patients with cancer.
Those allegations accused Khan of offering patients a variety of unproven treatments, according to the tribunal, including something called “SAFE Chemotherapy” and a drug called dichloroacetate, which is a drug for metabolic disorders.
“Whether it was ‘snake oil,’ ‘witches’ brew’ or otherwise, whatever it was that Dr. Khan was offering his patients, it was not what he claimed,” the ruling reads.
“In doing so, Dr. Khan set aside his obligations as a physician to uphold the College’s CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine] and consent policies, and in doing so, he failed his patients,” the ruling says.
On March 28, the OPSDT revoked Khan’s license after finding him guilty of professional misconduct, including treating a patient for cancer erroneously for more than a year and prescribing medication to a cancer patient that “increased their risk of aggravating the cancer.”
