Albarin is an aloe-based serum used as a treatment of last resort by some terminally ill cancer patients. However, intravenous administration of aloe extracts such as Albarin is illegal as the substance may cause further health problems, including death. Recently, federal agents raided the Medical Center for Preventive and Nutritional Medicine in Tampa after regulators discovered that doctors were treating terminal cancer patients with Albarin.
Patients at the Tampa health care facility expressed anger over the raid. One patient reported that she had seen "baseball-sized tumors" disappear from patients using Albarin. The resident physician at the facility told authorities that in his experience, Albarin therapy was 93 percent effective. In addition, certain marketing literature claims that Albarin cures "over 80 percent of all cancers." These are astonishing statistics considering that the Food and Drug Administration and several other health organizations maintain that aloe-based serums are potentially dangerous and ineffective. Opponents of aloe treatment also point to a 1997 Virginia incident in which two terminally ill cancer patients died shortly after injecting an aloe-based serum.
