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Dominik -

The True Story

 

Dominik's passing was as dramatic an event as the past two years of

his short life. The fight between an outmoded and inhuman form of

treatment - chemotherapy - and the breakthrough of a treatment with no

side effects - Cellular Medicine - accompanied Dominik to his death.

 

It is now clear that Dominik did not die as a result of his cancer and

metastasis of the lung, but rather as a result of a succession of

medical errors made by doctors, resulting in the formation of a giant

haematoma which filled the entire left side of his chest and began

exerting ever more pressure on his heart and lungs. In addition to

this, he developed a pericardial effusion (a build-up of fluid in the

heart), which had an increasingly adverse effect on cardiac function.

 

Although an operation was carried out on 25 October 2004 to puncture

the left chest cavity, which clearly relieved the situation, the vital

organs (the heart in particular) were already so badly impaired that

Dominik's heart stopped on 1 November.

 

Dominik was a fighter and held on for a long time. It wasn't the

cancer that eventually defeated him; he was the victim of an

antiquated medical system - one that wanted to exploit him to prove

that cancer continues to be a death sentence.

 

They did not succeed however!

 

Chronology of Events

Dominik has become a symbol for humanity's liberation from the scourge

of cancer. The last few years of his life were a long and hard fight,

through which a great many of us accompanied him. We have once again

listed the different stages of this fight below:

 

9/2002:

 

At the children's clinic in Siegen, Germany, Dominik is diagnosed with

a form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) in his right thigh (near the

knee). Chemotherapy starts immediately. After the second cycle of

chemo, the cancer in the thigh bone grew at an alarming rate, as did

the lung metastases.

 

Doctors at Siegen clinic transfer Dominik to the children's ward of

the university clinic in Münster, Germany (director: Professor

Jürgens). The course of chemotherapy continues here, but at no point

are Dominik's parents consulted.

10/2002

 

Once the parents hear what the doctors in Münster are doing, they

contact the university clinic in Mainz and ask them for a second

opinion on Dominik's illness. On arrival in Mainz his parents are

told: " Don't expect us to give a different recommendation from Münster

university clinic. " It is clear that the Mainz and Münster university

clinics have already been in touch with one another about this.

 

02/2003

 

At Münster Castle, the main building of Münster University, Dr. Rath

gives a speech about Cellular Medicine's breakthrough in treating cancer.

 

The main hall and its foyer are filled with over eight hundred cancer

patients and their families. Following this speech, many in the

audience start to follow a Cellular Medicine regime.

 

In the months following this, increasing numbers of people come to

hospitals in the Münster area, having successfully fought or even

defeated their cancer with the help of Cellular Medicine. Pressure

increases on Münster university clinic as the centre of

'chemo'-orientated cancer treatment in Germany. This pressure is

focused primarily on Professor Jürgens, dean of the university clinic

and a spokesperson for pressure groups which openly propound chemotherapy.

 

At this point, Dr. Rath and the Feld family have not yet met.

 

During this same month, Dominik's parents decide to have the tumour

removed from Dominik's thigh in an operation to save Dominik's leg.

They have to ask Munich university clinic to do this because the

clinic in Münster insists that the whole leg has to be amputated.

 

05/2003

 

Due to its severe side effects, Dominik's parents cut short the course

of chemotherapy at Münster university clinic after 14 treatment

cycles; at this point their son weighs only 16 kilos and is fighting

for his life. The CT scans of his lungs show multiple metastases in

the lungs, which have actually increased in number as a result of

chemotherapy. Münster university clinic puts pressure on the Feld

family to continue the chemotherapy and also to allow an incredibly

dangerous operation on Dominik's lung to remove the metastases.

 

Dominik's parents look into alternative means of treatment and come

across Cellular Medicine. They decide to start Dominik on a natural

course of therapy. At this point, Dr. Rath is still unaware of

Dominik's plight.

 

09/01/2003

 

After four months of Cellular Medicine, Dominik has recovered to such

an extent that he is able to return to school after his year-long

absence. He is an excellent pupil and soon catches up on everything he

missed.

 

09/23/2003

 

The CT scan taken at his check-up shows that the metastases in his

lung have diminished greatly and even partially disappeared following

his exclusive adherence to a Cellular Medicine regime. Münster

university clinic is notified of the impressive success that this

alternative natural course of therapy has achieved with Dominik.

 

09/28/2003

 

Professor Jürgens files a lawsuit with Betzdorf district court, aiming

to deprive Dominik's parents of their right of care for him, thus

enabling him to compel Dominik to undergo chemotherapy, against their

will. He also wanted to perform an operation on Dominik's lungs to

remove alleged metastases, despite the fact that the CT scan taken on

23 September showed that, following his optimum intake of cellular

nutrients, there were hardly any metastases left. This amounts to

forcing an almost healthy child to subject himself, under duress, to a

toxic 'cure' with almost no chance of survival (70 to 90% likelihood

of causing death).

 

This begs the question: Why, in the face of the proven remission of

the metastases in Dominik's lungs, was Professor Jürgens unable to

share in the pleasure at Dominik's imminent recovery and to

congratulate Dominik's parents?

 

Professor Jürgen's actions show that he was not concerned exclusively

with Dominik's health. There were obviously other elements at work. It

seems that the real aim in forcing chemotherapy on the child was to

support the pretence that Dominik's death was inevitable, sidelining

Dr. Rath and eliminating Cellular Medicine as a viable alternative to

ineffectual chemotherapy. Criminal proceedings citing bodily harm,

manslaughter and other allegations would then have been instituted

against Dr. Rath under the pretext that Cellular Medicine was to blame

for the fact that Dominik failed to receive successful treatment in

time - a complete reversal of the actual facts of the case.

11/2003

 

Betzdorf district court makes its staggering decision to withdraw from

Dominik's parents the parental right of care for their child.

Dominik's parents contact a number of German publications (including

Bild newspaper and Fokus magazine) to let the public know what is

happening to their child. However, the media shows no interest in

reporting the story.

 

Finally, Dominik's parents contact Dr. Rath to ask for help. Dr. Rath

informs them that he can only help if they are willing to make their

child's story known to as many people as possible. The Dr. Rath

Foundation, together with the 'Save Dominik' association recently

initiated by Dominik's parents, tell the people of Germany what

Dominik has been through via publications, the internet and in speeches.

01/09/2004

 

CT scan of Dominik's lung, taken on 9 January 2004. In this and all

subsequent images, the view of the pleural space is taken from below.

The left lung is therefore on the right of the picture.

Click on the image for an enlarged view

 

Another CT scan of Dominik's lungs confirms that there are still no

metastases in his lungs.

 

02/2004

 

Dominik's parents set up the 'Save Dominik' association and receive

support from the people of Germany and far beyond.

 

03/2004

 

Professor Jürgens files charges of bodily harm and attempted

manslaughter against Dr. Rath, whose scientific findings in relation

to Cellular Medicine are putting the billion-dollar chemotherapy

market under threat.

 

03/31/2004

 

At a session of Koblenz Court of Appeal, the decision by Betzdorf

District Court is overturned. It returns the right of care for Dominik

to his parents. Dominik is so healthy that he greets the judge

personally at the start of the hearing. Public interest in Dominik's

fate reaches far beyond Germany.

 

04/2004

 

Dominik celebrates his first communion surrounded by his family and in

good health. He even starts playing football again, which had been his

favourite sport before becoming ill, in his favourite position as

goalkeeper. For Dominik, who has just regained his health, this hobby

is to prove disastrous.

 

05/2004

 

During a game of football, a ball hits Dominik hard in the temple.

This leads to a headache and, a short time later, Dominik requires

emergency surgery on account of a haematoma that has formed in the

temple area. The surgeons at Jung-Stilling hospital in Siegen know

that Dominik was previously diagnosed with bone cancer. Because of

their view that this diagnosis was a sure-fire death sentence, they

record that metastases have formed in Dominik's brain - without the

evidence of a corroborating tissue analysis on which to base this

diagnosis. After this operation, surgeons do not replace a small

fragment of Dominik's skull from around the temple area, so as to

enable the swelling from the operative scar to go down. The intention

is to replace this skull fragment a few weeks later.

 

07/12/2004

 

When Dominik's mother arrives for the planned operation, she is

informed that her son is riddled with metastases despite the fact that

no examinations have been carried out to support this. Another CT scan

is carried out which shows the operative scar on Dominik's brain.

Without any further examinations being carried out, Dominik's mother

is informed that this operative scar is allegedly a metastasis.

However, his mother becomes suspicious and leaves the clinic with her son.

 

Two days later, Dominik's mother receives two phone calls from the

duty surgeon at Siegen hospital informing her, to her surprise, that

after having another look at the CT image, he has discovered that, in

the area behind the operative scar on Dominik's head, an oedema

(build-up of excess fluid) has in fact formed. This only increases

Dominik's parents' mistrust of the hospital.

 

Who influenced the doctors at the clinic? What led them to unsettle

Dominik's mother like this and pressurise her? Why was it so urgently

necessary for Dominik to undergo an operation to remove alleged

metastases instead of the scheduled skull-fragment replacement? How

did the alleged metastases suddenly disappear? In whose interest was

this strategy? Was the intention to force Dominik back into the

clutches of pharmaceutical medicine?

 

At this point, Dominik's parents lose all trust in the doctors

treating their son for they are left with no choice but to believe

that the pressure groups which have been hounding their son for months

are bringing their influence to bear on subordinated hospitals such as

Siegen hospital.

07/21/2004

 

A short time later, since Dominik has still not undergone surgery to

replace the missing skull fragment, the wound on his head becomes

inflamed, requiring him to undergo another operation in Siegen. He

suffers a multitude of complications following this operation.

 

08/15/2004

 

After a severe bout of pneumonia, Dominik is admitted to the

children's clinic at Pirmasens hospital (director: Dr. Kläber),

suffering from a pleural effusion (abnormal accumulation of fluid in

the pleural space).

 

08/16/2004

 

To treat the pleural effusion in Dominik's left lung, the doctors at

Pirmasens hospital perform a pleurocentesis on him. During this

procedure it is clear that they punctured Dominik's left lung, which

collapsed like a deflated balloon. On the left side of Dominik's

chest, previously filled by the left lung, a huge hollow space is

created. 2.2 litres of fluid in total are drained out of this.

 

08/17/2004

 

Dominik's condition deteriorates. The doctors at Pirmasens hospital

inform Dominik's mother that Dominik has only hours to live. Hereupon,

Dominik's distraught mother decides to give him the bad news and a

priest is asked to come that same evening to read Dominik his last rites.

 

While the doctors' attention is focused on his apparent impending

death, Dominik is not given vital medical care. Only when the doctors

are threatened with legal action are they prepared to replenish the

albumin that was lost during the drainage procedure by giving Dominik

an albumin infusion.

 

The next morning, Dominik's breathing is still shallow, but the

albumin infusion has fought off the life-threatening situation. Over

the next few days, Dominik's health stabilises to some degree.

 

In retrospect, it is evident that the injury to the left lung clearly

inflicted at Pirmasens hospital was a decisive factor in triggering

the series of events that ultimately led to Dominik's demise.

 

The doctors at Pirmasens must be questioned as to why they did not

follow standard medical monitoring procedures after the

pleurocentesis, which should have led to emergency measures to

re-inflate the left lung.

 

Why was Dominik left lying in his hospital bed at Pirmasens hospital

for days with only one functioning lung? Why was there no mention in

the doctors' reports of the obviously collapsed lung or the dramatic

medical consequences of this?

 

Why was Dominik denied vital medical care, such as the albumin

infusion, for such a long time?

08/23/2004

 

Dominik is transferred to Westerwald German Red Cross clinic in

Kirchen, which is closer to his home town. Chief physician, Dr.

Buchal, makes contact with Professor Jürgens in Münster to discuss the

case. Still no medical care is provided for the obviously collapsed

left lung. Throughout the course of his week-long stay at Kirchen

hospital, Dominik develops additional life-threatening problems, all

of which receive insufficient medical attention or, in some cases, no

medical attention at all: Dominik's haemoglobin levels (which measure

the amount of oxygen in red blood cells) fall to below half the normal

level. His plasma levels also fall to a life-threatening level. The

boy's shallow breathing, which is a result of his having to breathe

with only one functioning lung, is interpreted as a sign of his

impending death. The parents are told many times over that their child

is on the verge of death.

 

One of Dominik's parents requests that Dominik be given an optimum

dose of vitamins - a request that is denied by chief physician, Dr.

Buchal, claiming that he cannot allow it on " ethical grounds " .

08/27/2004

 

Dominik begs his parents to rescue him from the clutches of Kirchen

hospital, saying: " If you don't get me out of here, I won't survive

the weekend. " Dominik obviously feels that continuing to stay in this

hospital poses a real threat to him. He could not possibly have known

that on this very Friday, the chief physician at the hospital had

applied for an injunction permitting him to force Dominik to accept

morphine for the pain, although Dominik was not suffering from much

pain at all. Even the smallest overdose of morphine can have

life-threatening, if not lethal, consequences.

 

Did Dr. Buchal want the court's blessing for the action he was about

to take? Had Dr. Buchal also discussed this action with Professor

Jürgens? Why, instead of implementing urgently necessary medical care,

did they simply allow Dominik's life to be put at risk, actually

encouraging his apparently imminent death?

08/30/2004

 

Dominik's parents push for Dominik to be transferred to a hospital

that also provides naturopathic treatment. Chief physician, Dr.

Buchal, refuses to do this and instead presents the parents with a

injunction from Betzdorf district court, which in effect gives the

doctors free rein to administer morphine to Dominik, who at this point

is still free of pain.

 

Only when the parents' lawyers threaten to go public with information

about Dr. Buchal's actions, which have no medically justifiable

grounds, does Dr. Buchal finally relent - on the evening of that

Monday - and allow Dominik to be transferred to " Villa Medica " , an

alternative clinic in Edenkoben, in the Rhineland-Pfalz region of

Germany. The doctors from Kirchen still tried to give Dominik a

morphine injection in the ambulance, with the supposed aim of helping

him survive the journey.

 

If Dominik's father hadn't stepped in at the last minute to prevent

them doing this, Dominik would probably have succumbed to his fate

there and then. Shortly before midnight, Dominik reaches " Villa Medica " .

 

09/01/2004

 

The chief physician at " Villa Medica " , Dr. Burkhard Aschhoff, gives

Dominik a full check-up, finding him to be " in a state of generally

diminished health and restricted breathing " . At 5.8 his haemoglobin

level is below half the normal level and his plasma level is also

life-threateningly low. An X-ray of Dominik's chest cavity, taken the

same day, documents the collapsed left lung: " The left pleural space

(space surrounding the lungs) is transparent, giving the impression of

a pneumothorax (collection of air or gas in the pleural space). No

lung tissue is discernible " .

 

According to Dr. Aschhoff, the following measures were taken: " We had

to immediately administer 2 transfusions of erythrocyte concentrate

(blood bottles) and substitute 7 infusions of human albumin (plasma

protein) to remedy the life-threatening situation. "

 

That same day, Dr. Aschoff performs a further pleurocentesis (puncture

of the pleural space) on Dominik: " The puncture needle was inserted

dorsally (from the back) between the 7 th and 8 th rib. " Puncturing

the pleural space from behind is a highly dangerous procedure due to

the high risk of lacerating the blood vessels located here.

 

It is probable that in performing this risky procedure, Dr. Aschhoff

did in fact lacerate some of the blood vessels inside Dominik's

ribcage. What other explanation could there be for the mass of fluid

which began to fill Dominik's pleural space over the following days

and which a specialist laboratory later found to be blood coagulum (a

fibrin precipitate with red blood cells)?

09/03/2004

 

Yet another pleurocentesis to insert a chest drain. To suction air

from the pleural space, Dr. Aschoff punctures Dominik's pleural space

once more - this time from the front - and connects a suction pump.

 

09/06/2004

 

X-ray CT of Dominik's lung on 6 September 2004. The left lung has

collapsed as a result of medical error. Its cavity is filled with a

huge haematoma. In the centre, a drainage catheter can be seen (see text).

Click on the image for an enlarged view

 

Dr. Aschhoff has an x-ray CT taken of Dominik's whole chest. It now

becomes apparent that the whole of the left side of his chest is

suddenly full of a uniform mass that was not visible on any previous

CT scan. Dr. Aschoff and the examining radiologist interpret the

sudden appearance of the structure as " exploding lung metastases " from

Dominik's bone cancer.

 

Neither doctor, clearly, is bothered by the fact that the left lung is

supposedly full of secondaries, while the right lung shows no sign

whatever of metastases.

 

Since the lung is a single organ with evenly distributed blood supply,

this cannot be the case.

 

Dr. Aschoff also informs Dr. Rath of this finding. The latter

considers this diagnosis to be unlikely and premature, and suggests

waiting for the result of the special laboratory test on the contents

of the drainage tube situated in the midst of this mass.

09/08/2004

 

Analysis of the catheter tip at a special laboratory confirms the

haematoma and at the same time rules out the possibility of a lung

metastasis. (German text, PDF-file)

Click on the image for an enlarged view

 

The test finding from the special pathology institute is now

available. Test result number E 27088/04 gives the following

diagnosis: " Catheter tip with adjoining fibrin condensate, with no

indication of malignancy. " This is confirmed by the diagnosis of a

huge blood clot in Dominik's left thoracic cavity, and definitely

rules out the possibility that the structure which has suddenly

developed can be a tumour metastasis in the lung. The finding

inevitably confirms that the left lung is no longer inflated at this

point. Thus the suspicion of a collapsed lung due to the pleural

puncture on 08/15/2004 is once again confirmed.

 

09/15/2004

 

Despite this compelling evidence, Dr. Aschhoff insists to the very end

that his erroneous diagnosis is correct. At this point, Dr. Aschhoff

must realise that he probably contributed to the deterioration of

Dominik's condition. In order to hush this up he publicly discredits

Dr. Rath and makes him out to be completely incompetent.

 

He goes so far as to enlist the Springer-owned tabloid " Bild " ,

well-known for its anti-Rath smear campaign on behalf of the

pharmaceutical cartel. He contacts Bild journalist D. Becker. This is

no accident, for Dr. Aschhoff is godfather to Becker's children. The

relationship between Aschhoff and Becker is clearly so close that

Aschhoff - in flagrant violation of doctor-patient confidentiality -

even gives this Bild sensation-monger the CT images which he

misdiagnosed. On 12 and 13 November these delude a readership of

millions into believing in a non-existent giant tumour in Dominik's

chest. This is one of the reasons why Dominik's parents have now filed

criminal proceedings against Dr. Aschhoff.

 

Dr. Aschhoff also informs Dominik's distraught parents of his false

diagnosis, claiming that Dominik only has a few days to live. When the

parents are rightly sceptical of this diagnosis, Dr. Aschhoff refuses

Dominik any further treatment. Once again, his parents are compelled

to find another clinic, at a moment's notice, where Dominik's

treatment can continue.

 

Does Dr. Aschhoff really believe that he can cover up his false

diagnosis and his medical misconduct through a campaign of intentional

public misinformation? Was he perhaps trying to avoid an enquiry into

his grave medical errors by intentionally violating doctor-patient

confidentiality and publishing misdiagnosed CT images of Dominik?

 

However grave Dr. Aschhoff's medical misconduct was, the harm he

caused by allowing himself to be exploited by the pharmaceuticals'

flagship tabloid " Bild " is far more serious. The medical

misinformation and lies thus spread about the Dominik case are

depriving millions of cancer patients of the chance to turn their

backs on the " toxic cures " of chemotherapy, and to combat their cancer

with the help of scientifically based effective natural remedies.

 

The fact that the Bild tabloid is a rabble-rouser for the

pharmaceutical cartel is no accident. The chairman of the supervisory

board of the Springer group (Bild, Bild am Sonntag etc.) is Sicilian

Giuseppe Vita, who is also chair of the supervisory board of the

pharmaceutical group 'Schering'. And it gets worse: The executive

chairman of the Axel-Springer publishing company, Mathias Döpfner, is

also on the supervisory board of Schering AG. The Schering group alone

makes an annual turnover of almost half a billion dollars from cancer

drugs, a market which they are clearly trying to defend with all means

at their disposal, such as the smear campaign against Dr. Rath.

09/16/2004

 

Fleeing their pursuers, who in the meantime have clearly enlisted

every clinic in Germany, the parents decide to take the only step

possible and look abroad to receive further treatment for their child.

Eventually, they find a clinic that provides both traditional and

alternative forms of treatment, and is willing to admit Dominik: the

" Oasis of Hope " clinic in Mexico, directly bordering the US. Many

North American patients, who have been failed by chemo-medicine, also

go there for treatment.

 

09/17/2004

 

Dominik, his mother and a supervisory doctor flee the witch-hunt in

Germany and fly to North America. Shortly before landing, the

horrified parents hear that their pursuers have still not given up.

They have forced through emergency legal proceedings at Betzdorf

district court on the coming Monday, with the aim of obtaining a court

order to drive Dominik, once and for all, back into the power of

pharmaceutical medicine.

 

09/20/2004

 

The judge at Betzdorf district court is informed by the parents'

solicitor of Dominik's new place of abode and the comprehensive range

of treatments which the clinic offers. The judge decides in favour of

Dominik and his parents, as he realises that Dominik does not need

further suffering inflicted on him in the name of therapy, and that

the clinic is providing for his needs in the best possible way. For

his own personal assurance, he himself phones Dominik the next day at

the " Oasis " clinic, and wishes him the best of luck.

 

For the pursuers who believed, after Dominik had been refused further

treatment at " Villa Medica " , that they had cornered him and his

parents, this is a decisive defeat. To hush up this final escape by

Dominik from the clutches of the pharmaceutical interest groups and

their seventh consecutive legal defeat, they start a real media

rampage against Cellular Medicine and Dr. Rath - using everything from

the " Bild " newspaper to ZDF and ARD broadcasting stations.

 

Throughout the whole of Germany there is not a single clinic that does

not participate in the campaign against Dominik. What is the meaning

of this? Not one clinic is willing to offer him potentially

life-saving treatment.

 

Do umpteen thousand cancer patients in Germany have to pay the price

for the fact that this country was the stronghold of the

pharmaceutical cartel for years, and enslaved whole areas of society

such as medicine and the media?

 

Following his flagrant mistreatment in German hospitals and the long

journey, Dominik is in a greatly weakened condition. As before, he

still breathes with only one lung - which is also constricted due to

the huge haematoma in the left lung. Dominik's heart is also

constricted and gradually develops a pericardial effusion (a build-up

of fluid in the space between the heart and the sac around the heart).

This pericardial effusion increasingly impairs the heart function,

that is, the capacity of the heart to pump blood.

 

Due to his generally weak condition, and the false information which

clinics in Germany have given about Dominik's previous case history,

the doctors at the " Oasis " clinic decide not to operate but to keep

him under careful observation.

10/08/2004

 

At this point, a grey area has developed at the centre of the huge

haematoma, which indicates disintegration (breakdown) of the contusion.

Click on the image for an enlarged view

 

Another CT check-up of Dominik's chest is undertaken. It shows an

astonishing finding: in the midst of the light-grey mass in Dominik's

left chest cavity can be seen a large, dark-grey area which the

doctors initially misdiagnose as tumour necrosis (dead tumour tissue).

A chest-cavity puncture is considered, but in the end is not carried

out due to Dominik's generally weak condition.

 

10/25/2004

 

Due to his restricted lung and heart function, Dominik's condition

deteriorates further. He suffers from increasingly irregular heartbeat

(arrhythmia), a racing heart (tachycardia) and high blood pressure as

a consequence of the increasing constriction of his heart. His death

now seems likely. Since there is no alternative, the parents urge the

clinic's doctors to puncture the dark-grey mass in Dominik's chest.

 

The aim is to ease pressure on the vital organs, the heart and the

right lung. The doctors say they are willing to do this - a highly

dramatic decision, for if the lump in Dominik's chest is really a huge

metastasis of the left lung, a lung puncture could cause the whole

left lung to collapse like a deflated balloon. Due to the already much

reduced respiratory function, this would very probably lead to

immediate death. This intervention will endanger Dominik's life unless

the mass in Dominik's left chest is not a metastasis of the left lung,

but a haematoma that has formed outside the previously collapsed left

lung.

 

The surgical procedure is undertaken at 8 pm under local anaesthetic.

The surgeon's needle enters Dominik's chest cavity without

encountering lung tissue. Dominik's heart and respiratory function

remain unaltered. This confirms the grave suspicion that the left lung

was deflated by the puncture at Pirmasens Hospital in August, leading

to Dominik having to breathe with only one lung ever since.

 

The surgeon subsequently introduced a drainage tube (catheter) into

Dominik's left chest cavity, positioning its tip exactly in the middle

of the huge lump with the help of the x-ray CT. The fluid voided

through this drainage tube over the following days was tested in a

special laboratory. The diagnosis was clear: " No evidence of

malignancy " . Confirming the test result on 8 September, the mass in

Dominik's chest was thus once again identified as coagulated blood,

and metastasis was ruled out.

 

In the following days, almost half a litre of fluid was drained from

the dissolving haematoma. This eased the pressure somewhat in

Dominik's chest, visible also from the x-ray images. However, the

haematoma in the heart sac (pericardial effusion) was not reduced and,

after a week, this finally led to the pump function of Dominik's heart

failing.

11/01/2004

 

Dominik dies. He was not the victim of his cancer but died from the

consequences of severe medical errors in German hospitals. He was the

victim of a form of medicine that stops at nothing to prove that

cancer remains a death sentence.

 

11/08/2004

 

Dominik's body is brought back to Germany. When the boy's coffin

arrived at Frankfurt airport, Koblenz public prosecutor department

immediately confiscated it. Why? Münster professor Jürgens had issued

a charge against Dr. Rath for bodily harm and manslaughter, which the

public prosecutor department was processing. Furthermore, the parents

were informed that a charge had also been filed against them for

failure to provide due help.

 

11/09/2004

 

A post-mortem is carried out on Dominik at Mainz University clinic's

pathology institute. Legal representatives acting for the parents, and

those acting for Dr. Rath were not admitted. The parents do not doubt

the independence of Koblenz public prosecutor department, but there

are justified concens, due to links between the university clinics at

Mainz and Münster, about the objectivity of the Mainz pathologists.

For this reason the parents decide to have a second post-mortem

carried out. This turns out to be a very wise decision.

 

11/10/2004

 

At the second post-mortem, independent doctors and legal experts were

present with the pathologists. The decisive findings of this autopsy

were the following:

 

The " Corpus delicti " - the left lung which suffered collapse due to

medical errors, and the haematoma which developed in the resulting

cavity - were, astonishingly, no longer present! Clearly these

important findings had been removed by the Mainz pathologists and -

contrary to all rules of court pathology - not replaced again in the

corpse.

 

One has to ask why. Did the pathologists do this in order to

investigate the truth or to conceal it? Why were Dominik and his

parents denied the right to full burial - that is, with all organs intact?

 

Koblenz public prosecutor department has already been informed of the

absence of the left lung and the huge blood coagulation in the left

thoracic cavity, with a request to ensure that this organ and its

findings are not 'accidentally' discarded by the Mainz pathologists.

 

The second post-mortem however, has already closed the door on any

attempt to manipulate Dominik's cause of death. The whole right lung

was present, and one could see at first glance that this organ

contained no metastases. If there were any secondaries at all in this

organ, they were so small that they could not have posed a threat to

his life.

 

Since the right and left lungs compose a single organ, and are

nourished by the same blood supply, it is impossible for the right

lung to have been free of metastases while the left lung was one huge

metastasis.

 

So while the second post-mortem was able to rule out lung metastasis

as cause of death, the lung tissue gave clear indications of the

actual cause of death: so-called lung congestion (accumulation of

fluid in the lung tissue), an unmistakeable sign of blockage in the

lung's blood circulation. This, in turn, is an _expression of the fact

that the heart's pump function was restricted, which ultimately led to

heart failure.

 

The second expert report on the right lung renders any attempt to

manipulate Dominik's cause of death a useless undertaking.

 

11/14/2004

 

It becomes clear from a report in " Bild am Sonntag " that the parents'

fear of attempts at such manipulation are not unfounded. Today, this

pharmaceutical flagship's invidious campaign is notched up still

further, when it reports on supposed " first results of the post-mortem

ordered by Koblenz public prosecutor department " : " According to

information available to BamS, Dominik's small body was wasted with

cancer. The lungs were riddled with metastases. " In view of the

available facts one cannot imagine a greater affront to the truth.

 

In summary, the following questions arise:

Is an alliance between pharmaceutical doctors and

pharmaceutical-dependent media trying to falsify the cause of

Dominik's death?

 

Do these false findings aim to manipulate the public prosecutor

department and the public?

 

Is all this happening to bring criminal proceedings against Dr. Rath,

innovator of an effective, side-effect free alternative to the billion

dollar business with useless chemotherapies and the perpetuation of

cancer?

 

Is the aim to discredit the natural therapy of Cellular Medicine and

bury its threat to the pharmaceutical investment business?

 

Should this unscrupulous conduct get away with sacrificing millions of

cancer patients to an illness which could long ago have been assigned

to the past?

 

It is already clear that the Dominik case is introducing a new era in

medicine which no longer serves the financial interests of a handful

of pharmaceutical shareholders but the health interests of millions of

people.

© 2006 by Dr. Rath Health Foundation