Broken Arrow Clinic Claims To Cure Cancer

By Lori Fullbright, The News On 6

BROKEN ARROW, OK -- A clinic that claims its treatments kill cancer in 100 percent of its cases is operating in Broken Arrow.

The woman who runs the clinic ran one just like it in Arkansas and is currently being sued in federal court by three former patients.

Dr. Antonella Carpenter is not licensed to practice medicine in Oklahoma. Her Lase Med, Inc. clinic mostly uses laser heat therapy and does have a licensed D.O. working there. Carpenter says she has a PhD in physics, but the lawsuits question her credentials and accuses her of pushing junk science and selling false hope to desperate cancer patients.

"Practically, it means killing cancer with light," Dr. Carpenter said in an infomercial.

Carpenter was featured on an infomercial talking about L.I.E.S.H. or Light Induced Enhanced Selective Hyperthermia. She says the heat from laser light therapy kills cancer cells with great results.

"The result is when the patient leaves, the tumor is dead, just like that, dead. Sometimes, they can't believe it," Dr. Carpenter said.

Bob Babecka's wife, Cyndi, is someone who believed. He says Cyndi searched for alternative treatments after learning she had breast cancer, found Carpenter online and went to her clinic for treatments. Babecka says Carpenter told them Cyndi's cancer had been killed.

Lori Fullbright, The News On 6: "What actually happened with her cancer?"

Bob Babecka: "She was treated with the laser and it continued to grow."

Babecka says it has now spread to Cyndi's chest and brain, and she's likely going to die. Babecka can only wonder what that year spent on Carpenter's treatment cost them.

"I found her on the Internet," said Lyle DeLoach, cancer patient.

DeLoach says she also went to Carpenter for cancer treatment and was also told the tumor was killed, although she too, learned it kept growing. DeLoach and Babecka both say Carpenter discouraged them from going to oncologists.

"She says they're going to lie to us and tell us the cancer is alive and growing because they want to do chemo, so they'll claim it's still alive," said DeLoach.

These claims are nearly identical to the ones made in two separate lawsuits filed in Arkansas federal court by three women. They each say Carpenter told them they were healed, only to learn later, they were not. 

Dr. Carpenter was not in her Broken Arrow office, but has denied all the allegations in the lawsuits. 

The News On 6 wasn't able to talk with Dr. Carpenter Tuesday, but in court documents, she defends her science and methodology and says while L.I.E.S.H. is not FDA approved, it's an improved version of Photodynamic Therapy, which is FDA approved and widely used to treat some cancers.

Dr. Carpenter says she has many success stories. Her attorney says the lawsuits are witch hunts with no merit and no evidence and he believes she will be vindicated in court.

• LAWSUIT: Therese Westphal v. Lase Med, Inc., Lase Med, Inc. of Arkansas
• ANSWER: From Dr. Antonella Carpenter 

•  LAWSUIT: Ann Marks and Marta Kollar v. Lase Med, Inc., Lase Med, Inc. of Arkansas
• ANSWER: From Lase Med, Inc. of Arkansas