Brazilian geriatrician Decio Basso finds gardening to be the perfect panacea for the challenges he encounters in his medical work. A specialist in anti-aging and experimental oncology based in the southwestern metropolis of Cascavel, Dr. Basso relieves the stress of his profession by digging, planting, and pruning.
An expert in mixed bacterial vaccine (MBV), Dr. Decio Basso sees clinical patients for whom other cancer therapies have failed. MBV, historically known as Coley’s Toxins or Coley Fluid, developed out of the work of Dr. William Coley, the pioneering bone surgeon and oncologist who first noticed that systemic infections sometimes caused a regression in his patients' cancers. In a therapy known as immunomodulation, Dr. Decio Basso has performed medical research with a contemporary form of Coley Fluid known as MBVax, a shortened form of the phrase “mixed bacterial vaccine.” In addition, Dr. Basso administers platelet therapies and stem-cell treatments at the Cascavel clinic, which also treats patients for conditions of aging such as osteoporosis. He holds three Brazilian patents for a process that renders hormonal compound products used in osteoporosis therapy.
Before practicing in Cascavel, Dr. Decio Basso served as a geriatric physician at the Hospital de Clinicas in Campo Grande for three years and at the Clinica Baltimore in São Paulo. He received his undergraduate education at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, and sought special m