Cancer Cure: Athens, Greece - Fighting Broke Out Monday Between Critics Of A Man Claiming To Have Discovered A Radioactive Water Source Which Heals All Forms Of Cancer And Supporters Claiming To Have Been Cured. The Issue Has Provoked Rampant Press Controversy And Government Intervention. The Incidents Took Place During A Crowded And Stormy Press Conference In Which The Water's Alleged Discoverer, Lawyer George Kamateros, Attempted To Convince Journalists And Other Scientists Of His Discovery. He Is Backed By A Committee Of 12 Ranging From Businessmen To Engineers, But No Doctors. When One Doctor Got up And Said Kamateros Needed To Be Examined By A Psychiatrist, He Was Attacked By Furious Onlookers Who Claimed They Or Their Relatives Had Already Been Cured By The Water. Order Was Restored Without Any Serious Injuries Or Damage. Kamateros Charged That Doctors And Other Scientists Involved In Cancer Research Would Not Want The Water To Cain Approval Because They Would Go Bankrupt An Look Ridiculous. He Said Doctors Insisted On Following Traditionally-Conceived Means Of Cancer Research And Refused To Accept That Some Natural Resource Could Have The Ingredients Necessary. The Lawyer Said The Water Was "A Mineral Sort Which Periodically Contained Radioactive Beta Rays." He Said The Source Is A Spring Flowing Into The Sea On The Eastern Aegean Island Of Kos. He Claimed Over 12,000 Patients Throughout The World Have Drank The Water, "With 100 Percent Success." The Greek Government Has Meanwhile Warned The Public Not To Take The Alleged Cancer-Cure Seriously, And Not To Interrupt Other Treatment Undertaken. It Has Warned That Those Advocating The Cure May Be Prosecuted. Thousands However Continue To Queue Up Daily For The Water, A Liter Of Which Is Claimed To Be Sufficient Cure.
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