Dr Mohsen Ali Struck Off After Charging Patients £15,000 for Bogus Cancer Cures
Dr Mohsen Ali, whose medical licence was withdrawn in 2015, has been struck off the medical register. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing determined that Ali treated two patients with prostate and ovarian cancer in 2018 from a Leicester property described as 'squalid'.
Ali reportedly informed patients that the NHS was 'killing them' and 'big pharma companies were making money'. He claimed a '90% success rate' in curing cancer, subsequently charging one patient up to GBP#15,000 and another between GBP#10,000 and GBP#12,000.
Unproven Treatments and Squalid Conditions
The tribunal heard that Ali intravenously administered vitamin C and garlic oil, and reused intravenous bags, exposing patients to significant infection risks. A flyer found at his address during a police raid advertised him as a 'qualified doctor' who had left the NHS because 'chemotherapy and radiotherapy did not work', asserting that his methods 'cured many cancers'.
A Public Health England inspection of Ali's semi-detached property, described by one patient's wife as looking 'like a council house', found 'visibly contaminated items surfaces and areas' and 'little to no differentiation' between residential and clinical spaces. The report highlighted a 'lack of material to suggest that basic infection prevention precautions were being taken' and evidence of 'equipment reused without decontamination'.
Ali did not attend the tribunal, but denied the allegations in an email, stating he 'never said he can cure cancer'. However, the MPTS concluded that Ali knew his treatments were not 'evidenced based treatments to cure cancer' and that his conduct was 'dishonest'. Patient B, suffering from terminal ovarian cancer, died shortly after discontinuing treatment with Ali. An expert witness testified that no studies support the efficacy of the treatments Ali provided for curing any type of cancer.
