Hello,<\/p>
\r\n\r\nThere are times in our lives when we must stand up for\r\ncertain issues, rights or just pass on information\r\nthat we believe is crucial. For me, this is one of\r\nthose times. After about 14 months and 1500 some hours\r\nof research, I know that at least a dozen very\r\neffective cancer treatments have and are being\r\nsuppressed by the pharmaceutical\/medical complex. My\r\nanswer as to Why?\r\nis fairly long and is answered at my newly created\r\nnon-profit website. My article, \"The\r\nCancer Racket\" was published in \"Clamor\" magazines\r\nFeb\/Mar (re-titled, \"Can You Trust Your Doctor\"?)\r\nissue this year. Feel free to email and circulate it\r\non the Internet, unchanged, non-commercially and with\r\nattribute please.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>
\r\n\r\nOver ten thousand Americans die every week from\r\ncancer, a medical vietnam every 6 weeks. Yet here we\r\nare in the 21st century still being prescribed the\r\nsame three treatments that have failed for over 50\r\nyears; surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment.\r\nSurgery is the most effective of the three but has\r\nlimitations and other disadvantages. Chemotherapy and\r\nradiation are toxic, cause cancer, and wreck the\r\nimmune system. They cause very serious side-effects\r\nand do far more harm than good for the vast majority\r\nof cancer patients. But those are our main options, so\r\nthe oncologists say. <\/p>
\r\n\r\nPlease read this next story and try to put yourself in\r\nthe shoes of Ric and Paula Schiff. In 1993 their 4\r\nyear old daughter, Crystin, became ill with the\r\nmost deadly form of brain cancer. Crystin underwent\r\nsurgery at the University of California at San\r\nFrancisco Medical Center (UCSF). Crystin's prognosis\r\nwas bleak, she would be dead in a few months.\r\nChemotherapy and radiation treatment may extend her\r\nlife further, but the side-effects were appalling. Ric\r\nand Paula were told there were no other treatment\r\noptions.<\/p>
\r\n\r\nCrystin went through six months of hell. During this\r\ntime Ric and Paula found out about Dr. Burzynski's\r\nnon-toxic antineoplastons that have very few short\r\nterm side effects and are very effective against brain\r\ncancer. The doctors at UCSF told them it was\r\nworthless. Ric and Paula decided to go ahead anyway.\r\n<\/p>
\r\n\r\nIncredibly, antineoplastons put Crystin into\r\nremission. Although Crystin died in 1995, it was not\r\nfrom cancer, but from brain damage as a result of\r\nchemotherapy and radiation treatment.<\/p>
\r\n\r\nLater Ric and Paula found out that a doctor at UCSF\r\nhad taken a close interest in a previous patients\r\nsuccess using antineoplastons . From 1989\/1993 Dr.\r\nPrados had sent Burzynski 14 lettters documenting the\r\ncase of Jeff Keller's brain cancer remission using\r\nBurzynski's treatment. Yet this doctor told Ric and\r\nPaula Schiff that antineoplastons were useless. See my\r\nsection \"Three\r\nChildren Denied The Best Treatment\" for more\r\ninformation.<\/p>
\r\n\r\nChildren with brain cancer in America must first be\r\ntreated with chemotherapy\/radiation treatment. After\r\nthe pharmaceutical companies have extracted their\r\nblood\r\ndollars the child may be allowed access to \r\nantineoplastons. But it is usually too late because\r\nthe chemotherapy\/radiation has destroyed the childs\r\nimmune system. Parents who try refusing orthodox\r\ncancer treatments for their children will probably be\r\nfacing a court order and their child made a ward of\r\nthe State.<\/b><\/p>
\r\n\r\nPlease help spread the word about the most egregious\r\nscandal in the history of medicine. The\r\npharmaceutical\/medical complex ban natural\/cheap\r\ncancer treatments so they can keep peddling their\r\nhighly lucrative chemotherapy and\r\nradiation treatments. Meanwhile, our children,\r\ngrandparents, wives, husbands, family and friends keep\r\ndying.
Thank you for your time.
Gavin\r\nPhillips
\r\nIf you have a website, please post a link to my\r\nwebsite<\/b>
\r\nExposing\r\nthe Cancer Indu$try
\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"freee95@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.cancerinform.freewebsites.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"New non-profit website informs people about the suppression of so-called alternative cancer treatments.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/10\/the_cancer.html","filesize":"4.0 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/12399.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":12408,"heading":"On cancer quackery","article":"Please take a look at:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/burzynski1.html\r\n\r\nfor some real information about Burzynski's background and qualifications, the chemical nature of the substnces he promotes as a cancer treatment and the results of studies of these substances in both the U.S. and Japan.\r\n\r\nYou might also find this interesting:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/burzynski2.html\r\n\r\non the nature of Dr. Burzynski's \"clinical trials\", which appear to function primarily as a means of getting around the laws governing treatments of unproven safety and efficacy, while failing to generate data useful in assessing his treatment.\r\n\r\nClaims of \"suppression\" have been characteristic of medical quacks throughout the past century. They ring hollow when the promoter of a new treatment refuses to put it to the test of organized trials with a scientifically valid protocol.\r\n\r\nThe following is taken from the Millenium Project's Cancer 100 challenge page(http:\/\/www.ratbags.com\/rsoles\/cancer100.htm):\r\n\r\n\"There are lots of people out there who claim to have cured cancer in patients. Some of the people making these claims are medical doctors who have records showing the detection and identification of the disease, the course of treatment (or treatments) taken, the results of those treatments, and long-term follow-up of the patients documenting the absence of the disease after several years. This is called \"medicine\" and is a form of science. A lot of other people claim to have cured cancer using unconventional means. Many of these people claim to have discovered or invented chemical preparations, machines, diets and other means of curing cancer. When challenged for evidence of their claims, they generally respond that scientists don't understand what they are doing, or that the drug companies want to suppress their ideas, or some other specious excuse about why they can't say how their cure works. Well, I'm going to make it easy for them by simply asking them to prove the effectiveness of what they do. The method is not important, only the results, and effectiveness is quite easy to assess.\r\n\r\nI live near a large hospital which treats a lot of people with cancer. With a bit of effort and the right pieces of paper, I could get case histories of 100 patients which showed that:\r\n\r\n1. A life-threatening form of cancer had been diagnosed (by scientific means, not just by looking or asking questions) before treatment started. \r\n2. The patient had undergone some form of treatment (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, combination) \r\n3. The patient was alive and free of that cancer 5 years after the treatment had finished. \r\n\r\nNow, I want alternative cancer curers to provide me with the same, paying particular attention to points 1 and 3. I don't want to hear about people who didn't have cancer after the treatment unless it can be proved that they had it before, and I don't want to hear about people who had conventional medical treatment as well as \"alternative\", and I don't want to hear about people who died 6 months after coming back broke from Tijuana, and I don't want to hear about how many hard bits there were in their stools after they were zapped, and I don't want to hear about how this isn't a way to prove the cure claims.\r\n\r\nSimple, isn't it? 100 people who actually had cancer, then got treated by an alternative medicine practitioner (with no conventional treatment, of course), then were alive without that cancer 5 years later.\r\n\r\nI can't offer any monetary award for this, but a Nobel Prize is waiting out there. I promise to support the nomination.\"\r\n\r\nI can't argue with this logic. Your move, Dr. Burzynski. Got just 100 documented case histories?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Mulberry Sellers","parent_id":12399,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-27 22:42:16","modified":"2001-10-27 23:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":12422,"heading":"Quackwatch, unabashed defender of status quo","article":"Quackwatch cannot seem to find anything wrong with modern technology. It has no qualms about defending genetic engineering, food irradiation, pesticides, water fluoridation, mercury amalgam fillings, vaccines, psychiatric drugs, or chemotherapy. According to this voice of reason, those alternative health nuts just want people to waste their money on things like organic food, herbs, vitamins, bottled water, and all sorts of unproven, unscientific, dangerous, irrational approaches to disease treatment and prevention.","author":"Free Soil","parent_id":12399,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-28 04:07:54","modified":"2001-10-28 04:50:37","fileurl":""},{"id":12426,"heading":"Propaganda...","article":"Quakewatch Is nothing more than a corporate pr site. I can't believe some jackass actually posted that crap in here.\r\n\r\nThe true quacks are those that give people with cancer radiation and Chemotherapy. ","author":"me","parent_id":12399,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-28 10:10:58","modified":"2001-10-28 11:00:01","fileurl":""}]}