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\nVirtually all children in America with brain cancer\r\nmust first be treated\r\nwith chemotherapy\/radiation treatment. After the\r\npharmaceutical companies have extracted their blood\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. We must have medical freedom of\r\nchoice.<\/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\nhttp:\/\/www.cancerinform.freewebsites.com\/
\r\n\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 nonprofit website dedicated to informing people about the suppression of effective cancer treatments","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/the_ca2y2mx.html","filesize":"4.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12953.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":12965,"heading":"Some links to more information","article":"\r\nAbout Burzynski and \"antineoplastons\": \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/burzynski1.html \r\n\r\nThe Antineoplaston Anomaly: \r\nHow a Drug Was Used for Decades in Thousands of \r\nPatients, With No Safety, Efficacy Data \r\nThe Cancer Letter, Vol. 24, No. 36, Sept. 25, 1998. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/burzynski2.html \r\n\r\nAbout the grand conspiracy to suppress cancer cures: \r\n\r\nIs There a Conspiracy to Suppress Cancer Cures? \r\nSteven Novella, M.D. \r\nStephen Barrett, M.D. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/conspiracy.html \r\n\r\n\"Some Notes on the Nature of Science\" \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/science.html \r\n\r\nThe Millenium Project's Cancer 100 Challenge: \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.ratbags.com\/rsoles\/cancer100.htm \r\n\r\nA simple explanation of a standard of proof, more basic than standard cliical testing, that quack cures just never seem to meet, unlike evidence-based medicine. \r\n\r\nIf you go to the Web site mentioned in the article, you'll see that our quackery fan is also on about a dubious cancer treatment called 714X. \r\n\r\nAbout the history of 714X and its promoter: \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.quackwatch.com\/01QuackeryRelatedTopics\/Cancer\/714x.html \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nEvery IMC you spam, quackboy, every time...\r\n","author":"Mulberry Sellers","parent_id":12953,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-11-17 23:02:16","modified":"2001-11-17 23:19:59","fileurl":""},{"id":12969,"heading":"Mulberry sellers is the real quack..","article":"Quit spreading your corporate propaganda.. you aren't fooling us.","author":"anonymous","parent_id":12953,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-11-17 23:45:06","modified":"2001-11-18 00:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":12981,"heading":"Since you can't be bothered","article":"Since it's an odds-on bet that \"anonymous\" didn't take the time to read any of the articles I referenced before dismissing them as \"corporate propaganda\", i.e., \"things that contradict my chosen gospel with facts\", here's the full text of the Cancer 100 challenge. \r\n\r\nI really hate to play fast and loose with someone else's copyright, but in this case I think I can claim the same justification participants in civil disobedience do. \r\n\r\nTry reading it and asking yourself why the \"alternative\" cancer cure promoters of the world have never managed to follow three simple, logical steps:\r\n\r\n1. Find a decent-sized sample (say 100) of patients PROVEN to be suffering from cancer.\r\n\r\n2. Administer the complete treatment under test, and no other treatment (this is to ensure that the treatment being tested is in fact responsible for the results, without other variables to confuse the issue).\r\n\r\n3. Demonstrate that the people treated are alive and free of cancer after a meaningful interval (five-year survival is a pretty standard measure in oncology).\r\n\r\nThat is a lot less rigorous than standard clinical testing, but if it were done it would be quite convincing. And yet cancer quacks like Burzynski have gone decades without managing it.\r\n\r\nWhy not? Could it be that it's just easier to keep claiming that you're the victim of a conspiracy than to subject your ideas to a realistic test? And is demanding that claims relating to the physical universe be supported by carefully designed, replicable testing \"spreading corporate propaganda\"?\r\n\r\nAnyway, here's the Cancer 100 challenge, by Peter Bowditch, a rather better writer than myself:\r\n\r\nOnly 76 days to go until Nobel nominations close for the 2002 awards.\r\n\r\nThere 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\n\r\n2. The patient had undergone some form of treatment (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, combination)\r\n \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\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n ","author":"Mulberry Sellers","parent_id":12953,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-11-18 17:35:10","modified":"2001-11-18 18:00:01","fileurl":""}]}