Dr. Carolyn Dean was defrocked in 1995 because of "disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct," according to a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) document.
Dean, now a naturopathic physician, researcher, and author in the U.S., will speak about cancer causes and cures at the alternative health showcase.
The CPSO document says that Dean displayed in her professional care of 36 patients "a lack of skill and judgement and a disregard for the welfare of these patients...." It reveals that one patient was required to bring $20 for seeing Dean and to pay $100 for a blood test administered at a laboratory with the same address as Dean's office.
The document also states that Dean used discredited methods of testing, such as hair analysis and iridology - a system that claims a person's state of health and disease can be diagnosed from the color, texture and markings in the eye.
Dean now lives in New York and owns a company called Holiopathic Pharmakeia. She plans to sell her specially-prepared homeopathic herbal remedies she claims can fight the infections and parasites that, according to her, are the undetected cause of most disease.
Dean, who is one of a panel of speakers at The Whole Life Expo 2000, Canada's largest showcase of alternative medicine, said her speech this weekend will be about the dramatic rise in cancer incidence due to chemical additives in foods and widespread environmental toxins.
Not so, says the Canadian Cancer Society.
Although the incidence of cancer has increased, this is because of changing demographics and not the effects of toxins. An aging population means the rate of cancer incidence will increase, but an individual's personal risk of developing cancer has not gone up, says the Canadian Cancer Society.
Dean also advocates the use of thermography, a technique that measures heat in different areas of the body, for cancer diagnosis. In fact, she believes mammography "can actually cause more cancers than it can prevent."
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