JEDDAH: The head of the Tissue Implant Department at Jeddah's King Fahd Medical Research Center has said that she received contact from the Japanese Embassy in Malaysia inquiring of the usefulness of camel's urine in “treating cancer and protecting against nuclear radiation”. Dr. Fatin Khoursheed, who is also the supervisor of the Al-Zamil Chair for Cancer, told Al-Hayat Arabic daily that the telephone inquiry was made “when the nuclear crisis in Japan started to get worse”. “It was after the explosion at the Fukushima 1 Plant,” she said. “The Japanese authorities wanted to try out the effect of camel urine scientifically in treating persons who had been exposed to nuclear radiation to protect them against cancerous diseases.” Dr. Khoursheed said that she had patented research begun in 2004 after successfully curing “dozens of cases of various forms of cancer with camel urine” taken in drink, capsule, ointment or “shampoo” form. Patients have taken the treatment both in Saudi Arabia and abroad, she said, with recovery rates of “98 percent”. She said that the Japanese inquiry “leads one to wonder” at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority's “failure to be convinced by the results of this scientific research”. “That's despite the research being complete in all theoretical and practical aspects,” she said. “The Japanese interest will spur me on to develop the research even further.”
