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Pete Cohen talks to Steve and Mary Jo Siegel
Posted on January 14, 2014 by didymusjudasthomas
This is our the best and the dearest, uh, patient who came to our clinic 20
and she was in the, she came with Hodgkin lymphoma, and a stage 4, and she didn't have good, uh, prognosis
How long, did they tell you
They told me that I was gonna die, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma
That I had a fatal disease
They would treat me for awhile with, uh, chemotherapy and radiation, um, a bone marrow transplant, and, um, we, they, we would see what would happen, but no cure
Not a cure at all
That was 22 years ago
Um, I thank God everyday that I found Dr. Burzynski's clinic, and Dr. Burzynski and his staff
Um, I was on his treatment for, um, 3 months when this huge tumor on the side of my neck started to reduce and finally disappeared
So we adopted her as our, uh, family
and now, she is our family member, and many others
So tell me, uh, how did you find out about Dr. Burzynski?
I was in a cancer support group, and, uh, one of the ladies in there said, you know, you have non-Hodgkins lymphoma
There's a doctor in Houston whose been treating it with very good results
You should go and check it out
Which I went back home to my husband and said: "There's Dr. Burzynski in Houston, Texas, and he's having good results," and, ah, Steve said: "You know, I've heard of this doctor
You know, I wrote his name down"
He'd heard about him
Wrote his name down for future use, and I think about, uh, the next couple of days we were in Houston, and we got to the clinic and I just felt I was in the right place
Everybody there
The feeling was so different than being at a UCLA or a USC or Dana Farber
I knew immediately I was in the right place, and I met Dr. Burzynski
Well first of all Dr. Barbara came out and hugged me, and, uh, it was, it was so wonderful and I'll never forget the feeling of, of, uh, my first walk into the Burzynski Clinic
So tell me, what did, uh, any, did, did you have an oncologist at home and tell them that you were coming here ?
Yeah, we did
Um, uh, I had an oncologist at UCLA who was a lymphoma specialist, and he was the one that told me I would die of the disease
Um, when we told him that we were going to see Dr. Burzynski, he wasn't, uh, overjoyed, to say the least, and he told us very negative things and, uh, but I thought, he wasn't offering me anything, and, uh, when I did get to the Burzynski Clinic, Dr. Burzynski said to me: "I think I can help you," he said
He didn't
He didn't tell me, he was going to cure me
He just said: "I think I can help you," and, it was non-toxic, and the, um, conventional medicine was offering me high-dose chemotherapy, radiation, and in fact, in mu, as much radiation as people who were, uh, within one mile of ground zero at Hiroshima, and, and they were going to bring me as close to death as possible, and then, rescue me
Uh, and then Dr. Burzynski was going to do this and actually have, where actually I would have hope of a cure, non-toxically
My hair never fell out
I felt well
Um, I lead my normal life
I drove my kids to school
I cleaned the house
It's a wonderful treatment
So, at what point did you realize, I'm free of cancer ?
Do you remember that point of ?
Uh, well I remember the point
I remember it very well
Um, the, it
It's so big
Um, I had, uh, several CAT scans
I had 2 CAT scans in a row
The first one that showed no cancer at all, and, um, I had them done at UCLA, and, um, and then I had a second one, 3 months later, and that one was, was absolutely clear
So, um, it was, it was an amazing feeling, and actually 48 hours was following me, because it was, it was a really a big story, um, you know
Cancer throughout my body
No, no cancer at all and, and my medical records show, um, you look at my X-rays, my CAT scans, from starting Dr. Burzynski's treatment, um, to approximately 9 months later
Reduction, reduction, reduction, until there was no cancer
So what did, what did your oncologist say ?
Did you, did you go back to your oncologist and say: "You said I was gonna die"
Uh, yes, we did that
And what did he say ?
And, and actually people would call him and a, people who were interested in Dr. Burzynski, and he would say: "Oh, she's a spontaneous remission"
He would never accept the fact that I was treated, and cured by Dr. Burzynski, but my medical records prove it, and of, you know I, There are so many patients like me
I'm not the only one
So ok, tell me
Let me ask you a couple more questions
What sort of a person do you think Dr. Burzynski is?
Well aside from being the most wonderful, gentle, sensitive, caring doctor, and you don't find many of those
I went to many doctors, while, while we were trying to find the answer
Many, and Dr. Burzynski is so above them
He, because he really makes you feel like a person, and that he cares, and, he's also a genius
He, I know that he speaks about 8 languages
He's an expert on the Bible
He, he just knows so much about everything
Um, I love to be in the room with him
He's a very special man
So, you recovered, and then, 'cause you, when did you set up the patient support group, and why did you do that ?
Uh, actually my husband and I did that together, and it was during, um, the trials, uh, the Texas State Board started, in fact, I became a patient, and 2 months later, ah, he was brought to a hearing in front of the Texas State Medical Board, and so Steve and I, um, organized the patients to, um, be at that hearing to support Dr. B, 'cause he'd been going through this long before I became a patient, but, um, we wanted to show support, because I was already starting to fe, I was feeling better already
I was already seeing some reduction, and now my, the medicine was in jeopardy
I, It could be taken away from me at any time
So we decided to organize the patients and to show support, and all the patients wanted to help, a, uh, obviously
So, um, we'd go to every hearing, every, uh, the trial, we were there every day, um, and we would, patients would march in front of the court building, um,
It was, it was really a sight
An unbelievable sight
And why do you think that he was treated the way that he was treated ?
Why do you think they wanted to take him down ?
I think it's because
There's many reasons
I think the main reason is because what Dr. Burzynski does is making what all other conventional doctors are doing wrong, because chemotherapy is not the answer
Chemotherapy makes people sick, and, uh, most of the time it does not cure people
Um, all that poison and radiation
There's gotta be a better way, and there is a better way
Dr. Burzynski has found it
I was sick
I had cancer 22 years ago
Um, my hair never fell out, and, uh, it was a treatment that I was grateful to be on every day
So how many patients have you come in contact with that Dr. Burzynski
Hundreds, and as you say by my patient group web-site
Um, I think I have about 90 stories on there now, and there are many more, because, um, I haven't been able to get in touch with everybody, but over the years, uh, people give me their stories
Sometimes people will call me, um, but we, we are a patient group because we, we've all been helped or cured by Dr. Burzynski, and we, we want everybody to have access to this treatment
Steve actually had the chance to ask one of, uh, one of the prosecutors, um, at the trial, that exact question: "What would you do," and he was prosecuting Dr. Burzynski, and he actually said: "I'd be first in line"
So, once you know the whole story, and you know the science, and you, especially if you do the research, um, you, you can come to the truth, and the truth is, Dr. Burzynski, has cured cancer
He cured me
I've been in remission for, in remission, for, uh, 22 years, and that's a cure, and, uh, he could help so many, many, many more people
The, he has breast cancer patients now that are, that are doing so well
He has many
I just talked to an ovarian cancer patient
He has, um, all, all different types of cancers
What he needs is funding from our government
Um, all other doctors and, and, um, institutions, they get ah, mu, get so much money from the government
Dr. Burzynski doesn't get one penny
If we could just think
If, d, if the government would just fund Dr. Burzynski, he could have a cure for all cancers
I believe that with all my heart, and somehow, some day this has to happen
The Sceptics (10:37)
Yeah, just tell me what this whole kind of skeptic movement
You do any research on Dr. Burzynski there's a few things
that always come up
This guy Saul
Saul Green
and some other stuff
So just tell me
What's that all about and where did that all come from ?
It stems from, uh, a lawsuit that was filed against, uh, Dr. Burzynski
Actually it was, uh, an insurance company, that didn't wanna pay for, uh, for the treatment
A particular patient had been treated here in Texas, uh, was put into remission
Was successfully treated and then it turns out the insurance company did not wanna pay for it, so they brought in these people
These quote unquote experts
Cancer experts of, you know, rather dubious backgrounds
This is all that they do, is they look for ways to demean people
They look for ways to blacken their reputation
They ultimately became a group known as Quack watch, and these were brought in as the expert witnesses to say that this is not an approved treatment, albeit, was not true
They said the treatment didn't work and clearly it did, and, uh, they have since gotten funding from insurance companies, from the government, private funding, and they go around to debunk things that are against mainstream, um, medicine, and, uh, their, their support comes from the insurance company and from the pharmaceutical companies who benefit from, from their work, and, uh, it expanded
Expanded all over the world to, uh, they're in the United States, they're in the U.K., they're in Australia, and, uh, they have a very big presence
When the internet came into being they, you know, they went viral with this kind of stuff
So when you type in Burzynski, uh, a lot of the negative comes up first
So that's the first thing you see is all this negative stuff, and it's all hearsay
None of it has any basis in fact
It's all lies
Um, you know, he, Dr. Burzynski never did anything illegal ever, and it was all based on, on very questionable legal grounds that he was ever sued, that he was, that any case was ever brought against him by the FDA or the Texas Medical Board, and all of those cases failed
They never held up to scrutiny
They all failed, and here Dr. Burzynski is today, and he's thriving, and people come here from all over the world to be treated
Many are cured of their cancers, and, uh, all of these people in the Quack watch are gone
Uh, Saul Green has passed away
Uh, I don't wish him ill, but I'm glad he's not here, thank you, and all of these other people are gone and they're not thriving, and they're just like, you know, they're like bacteria or like fungus under rocks, and when you shine a light on them, they can't hold up to the scrutiny
The real light is here
The real truth is here in Houston at the Burzynski Clinic
Thoughts on Dr. Burzynski (13:46)
What do you think of Dr. Burzynski, yourself ?
I, I, I think Mary Jo's pretty much summed it up
Uh, I, am of course
It, it, it's not an unbiased opinion
It can't be
He's the man that saved my wife
Uh, she was cast off, um, as, as, as an incurable
She was told time and time again, not just by her on, oncologist at UCLA, Dr. Peter Rosen, but we went all over the country
We went to USC in, University of Southern California, UCLA, Stanford Medical, Dana-Farber; which is associated with Harvard, uh, in, uh, Boston, and everywhere we went, she was told: "There's no hope"
"You're gonna die"
"It's just a matter of time"
"We have to see how long, how long it's gonna take"
Um, against my better wishes, we came to the Burzynski Clinic, and she said: "I'm starting today," and I said: "Don't you think we should go back and discuss with Dr. Rosen at UCLA ?
She said: "No, they have nothing to offer me"
She was that brave, and we started that day, and we've never looked, we've never looked back
So to ask me about what I think about Dr. Burzynski, when my wife was told she was gonna die, and I was already making plans for how am I going to take care of my children without Mary Jo; my life partner, and he saved her life, I'm not gonna give you unbiased
an unbiased opinion of how I feel about the man
There's probably nobody, that I have greater love and greater respect for, uh, in, in the whole world, and, uh, to add about how, how smart, how intelligent this man is, ah, expert on, on history as Barbara was saying
Expert on religion
He's an expert on mushrooms
He knows more about mushrooms than any 10 mushroom experts in the world
He knows about bees
Who cares about bees, but he knows everything, because bees happen to be a rich production source of antineoplastons
Who knew ?
Dr. Burzynski knew, and that's why we need to listen to him
We as a society
The world needs to listen to this man
Conventional Cancer Treatment and The FDA (16:05)
When you put some critical thought, critical analysis, you find that chemotherapy initially works
What it is, it's a good, the first time around it's a good tumor shrinking, they're good tumor shrinking agents, but over the long run they create so many problems that eventually, the tumor becomes, the cells become resistant and the tumor takes over, or, if it is successful in shrinking the tumor to, to a, a size where the patient can survive, what happens after that is there's a secondary cancer that's created by the chemotherapy, with very few exceptions
Testicular cancer is one exception where it works
Some childhood leukemia's they've had some great success with chemotherapy, but by in large it's a failed modality, and the side effects are so bad as, as to be called horrific, uh, is how I would describe them from what I've seen in, in my family and in my friends, and my associates that've had to undergo it
So why do we allow that, when something like antineoplastons and Burzynski's treatment, totally non-toxic, working with the body, allowing you to lead a normal life, and on it statistically for the number of people that have been treated, uh, compared to the number of people that have walked out of here in remission, or cured after 5 years; whatever definition you wanna use, we don't allow that
We look at that as, uh, conventional medicine looks at like that as, looks at that as some sort of quackery
This is, this is, uh, critical thinking and science turned on its head, and it doesn't make sense, and it goes back to what I was saying before
Why it doesn't make sense, because there's entrenched financial interests, and there's a paradigm that says we do for cancer, we do chemotherapy, we do radiation, we do surgery, and that's it
Anything else is not acceptable, because it goes against the paradigm
In the bureaucracy we know as the FDA
We've been fighting them for so long and they've been described as "The B Team"
"The B Team" is,that they be here when you come in and you start complaining, your problem starts, they be here, and when you decide to quit complaining because you've beat your head against the wall for so many years, they still be here (laugh)
So it's "The B Team"
They're bureaucrats
This is what they do
There, they have a certain set of tasks
Certain things that they're tasked with
Protection of the food and drug supply of the United States, whatever that means
Whatever they deem it to mean
Whatever they decide it means
That's what they're gonna do, and it's pretty hard to fight that
It's pretty hard, unless you have a political, unless you have a, a, a, a political, ah, constituency, and you can put a lot of pressure on them
and that's the only way
So what's the answer ?
What will, uh
How will Dr. Burzynski prevail ?
Ultimately, in, in my, in my, in my view, the real tragedy is, is that he's not going to prevail here in the United States
It's going to be extremely difficult
It's an uphill battle that, knowing Dr. Burzynski, he's gonna keep fighting it, uh, and, and he'll keep fighting that battle, but the real opportunity for him is to, uh, move this product and license it overseas, and, uh, other countries are interested
Other countries are more open, uh, to new modalities
They're not entrenched, uh, and don't have the financial, uh, interests, the, that are, the entrenched financial interests like we do here, like chemotherapy and, and, uh, radiation therapy, and I think that's where ultimately we as Americans, as sad as it is, are going to have to go overseas to be treated and to get this medication
The FDA is so capricious in their decision-making, and in their exception granting, uh, that if Pat had AIDS, and this was anti-AIDS medication; proven or not or only with limited, uh, proven efficaciousness, uh, and proven limited proof that it was somewhat non-toxic, she would be able to get approval like that
The FDA has taken a drug approval process that generally takes anywhere from 10 to 15 years, and where there is political, successful political pressure applied, they have reduced that down to some cases 4 to 8 months as in the case of the anti-HIV drugs, and that's because there is a very strong, very powerful political lobby in Washington, and throughout the country, and they have been able to apply pressure at key points in, uh, Congress
Congress puts that pressure on the FDA, says: "C'mon let's get the ball forward
These are voting people
We have millions of people in this country with HIV who are compacted together and make a viable political force
Let's move forward"
In the case of multiple-myeloma
In the case of these cancers or these people that wanna be treated, who have failed all conventional therapy, and wanna be treated by Dr. Burzynski with something that we know works
Something that is, is non-toxic, they, they don't have
We're not a viable political force
We're not important to the Washington bureaucrats, to the Washington lawmakers
So nothing gets done, and these exceptions for the use of antineoplastons are not granted, and that's, that's the sad truth
Steve and Mary Jo Siegel
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Pete Cohen talks with Doug Olson
My name is Doug Olson
I'm from Nebraska
Western Nebraska
And, uh, my mother has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
So, we, uh, middle of November, now this is first of, first of the year, eh, but in the middle of November her weight, she was losing weight, you know
She was suffering from indigestion and, and stomach pain, and so we started to have her checked, uh, for problems with her stomach for ulcers and that kind of thing, and all that proved negative, and they put her on an ulcer medicine anyway, thinking that maybe that would solve the inflammation in her stomach, and, uh, then we decided that we (?) better see another physician, and so we did that, and they then ultra sounded and then CAT scanned and found that she had tumors in her pancreas and in her liver
Uh, many years ago, back in, in the late 70's, my parents had been involved with, with the cancer, uh, subject in regards to my father's sister, and then his cousin
He started researching cancer and cancer treatments when his sister passed away, and then, uh, they got in contact with a doctor in Orden, Nebraska, that treated cancer patients with Laetrile, and he also did other, not so ordinary things
He did duculation therapy
Uh, a number of things that were really treatments for the disease rather than just treatments for the symptoms, and, uh, during that time, dad testified at the state legislature; they were trying to work against Dr. Miller's license
This was the Dr. Miller in Orden, and, uh, so dad testified on, on his behalf
Uh, dad's cousin was, uh, a patient of his, and she had a brain tumor the size of a lemon, and Dr. Miller put her on, uh, Laetrile treatments on a, on a special diet and some things, uh
And this was what, in the 70's ?
This was back in the, probably the late 70's, and, so, when they
Well they cured her
She had been sent home from the Mayo Clinic
Given 3 to 6 months to live, and, uh, they had, uh, burned with radiation and cobalt I believe is what they were treating her with at that time
Uh, they burned the, uh, nerves in her eyes so that her eyes crossed
Uh, they sent her home to die
They, uh
She was in a wheelchair
She was a young woman and she had a young child
Wasn't able to hold that child, and so when my dad saw her, met her, she was in that condition
She was it, in the last 6 months of her life
Gave her a book about, uh, the subject, and told her about Dr. Miller, and her family
She then went to Dr. Miller to see if there was any help for her, and he, and he immediately put her on Laetrile treatment then and, and, uh, the interesting thing about it, looking at his doctor's protocol; because I've come across his protocol, uh, Dr. Miller was also giving his patients antineoplastons, and
Yeah, because we've got this thing here that you gave me
Just explain to me what this is
This was his physician's protocol, to list, uh, the different medicines a person should, should be on
If they had cancer
Uh, if they had cancer, and so, uh, this was given to another friend of ours, a friend of the family, uh, the folks that rented one of our properties, uh, the woman got a, a tumor as well, and this was given to her as part of the regimen she should follow, and she was given Laetrile injections, and then as soon as the injections, uh, were over they went then to pills as the size of the dosage went down, and when you got to pills you got to go home
So, uh, I remember speaking to her at the time
I had a
I was in high school, and I had a summer job with her husband, who was the county engineer
So, uh, we saw them all the time, and she told us, uh, the circumstances when, when she was allowed to come home
She was feeling strong
She said: "I haven't felt better"
As a part of the diet and the things that, that they had her doing
She said she felt better than she had in many years
So she and her daughter, started a business in town in order to pay for the treatments, and, uh, she recovered
The tumor continued to shrink and shrink until it was nothing
Uh, what had been listed as inoperable, uh, after it shrunk halfway they decided, well maybe we can operate on you
Uh, we think it's operable now
She said: "Why would I let you operate when what I'm doing is working" ?
But, uh, she is alive yet today and in her mid-80's and, uh, so, uh, when it came to my mother's illness, we contacted her, and asked her how she's doing, and she's sent this protocol she's been keeping all these years
Uh, as a result of my parents knowing Dr. Miller back when he was alive
He is, he has passed away, uh, 7 maybe years ago, and, uh, many years ago when they were taking chelation therapy from him, he had given my mother, uh, a flyer on Dr. Burzynski, and, uh, said if anything ever happens to you after I'm gone, this is the man to contact, and so we've had that flyer in a file for many years at my parents house, and so when mom got sick she immediately began digging that out and found
So your mom immediately started thinking, well I need to find that leaflet
That's what we were told to do
And did, and did she go and speak to an oncologist ?
Did she say that she wanted to come here, or ?
We had a local physician, who was not an oncologist, that had, that was the 2nd physician we, we consulted, that did the ultrasound and the CAT scan for her and, and they knew that she had tumors, and no we did not go to an on, oncologist from there
because we knew that we did not want to take their treatments, uh, so we immediately contacted the clinic here in, in Houston, Texas, and, uh, we had to wait on, uh, certain things to be completed
CAT scans
Different things had to be done, and, and information had to be sent down here and examined, and then, uh, after a period of maybe 2 weeks, hassling with information, we were told that, yes, uh, we, they would accept her as a patient, and we were getting in towards the holidays at that time
Would we like to wait until the holidays were over, because Christmas
You know, there would be 5 days off for Christmas, uh, over a weekend and 5 days off for New Years over a weekend, and we would be down here in Houston over those times, but we elected to come anyway because we could get the treatment started right away
rather than to wait another month before starting treatments, and, uh, so they, uh, immediately put, put her on antineoplastons and, uh, they sent away the tissue samples to Arizona to have a CARIS test done, and determine what medications would be
So did you have those results come back ?
Yes, those results came back quicker than what we expected
And wh, what did they show ?
Well they, they show a, a list of treatments that are effective, and against it, and then a list of treatments actually that encourage it's growth
So you end up with a list of, uh, approximately 7 on each side
And these are all different cancer drugs
So what they're looking at is all
is all the different cancer drugs, and which ones
And whether we've got a, a thousand or 2 thousand different drugs that person might try, and, uh, so
So the (?) for how to, to try a few of these chemotherapies, but in very small doses
Is that right ?
There's 2, 2 chemotherapies
One is an, is an oral chemotherapy that is, uh, quite mild in its side effects, and then, uh, there's another much stronger one that was, uh, also one of th, the top 2, and, uh, the side effects for it are more varied and more violent, uh, if you will, and, uh, my mother's had one treatment of that so far, and the treat, the side effects
She did, is suffering from side effects from that particular
It's Oxaliplatin, and, uh, some people have very violent side effects but she's thankfully not had any violent side effects
So why didn't you go down the conventional road of having high-dose chemotherapy ?
Well, when you research the, uh, success rate, with pancreatic cancer, going the normal way, uh, or the normal, uh, road, the success rate is very, very small, and so you're just guaranteeing, in my opinion, if, if the success rate is 5% or under, uh, you're introducing yourself to a, a road to death, that's very unpleasant
You know, you just want to go home and make yourself very comfortable on painkillers and, and enjoy the rest of your life, uh, if that's the, if that's the road you're planning to take
Uh, that was our opinion, and so
What do you think about all the resistance then of, of Dr. Burzynski and all of the kind of, uh, ?
(?) people just calling him a
What's the word ?
Yes, we, uh, we have seen course, of course these things through our, our life
Dr. Miller
The whole Laetrile treatment thing was something that was, uh, thrown out
You know, it's pretty well suppressed now
You can go to Mexico and get those treatments
Why do you think they were, pushed aside ?
This Laetrile
What is Laetrile ?
Well Laetrile is a naturally occurring, uh, substance that you find in some of our foods
It's, they call it B17 although, vitamin B17, although there's some discussion as to whether it's really a vitamin
Another name for it is Amygdalin
Amygdalin
Uh, it's found in peach pits and apricot pits in high levels but there's a number of other foods that you find it in
Uh, it, it,
I'm not sure, whether this is 100% accurate, but my understanding of it is it's associated with, with cyanide, and it would be, uh, like an encapsulated cyanide, that as it travels through your body, the cyanide portion, um, does not become available to your body until it becomes in, uh, associated with a cancer cell
and the cancer cells attack the outer shell of that molecule, and the cyanide becomes, uh, uh, available then, and it kills the cancer cell that's right there
So it was apparently a very nontoxic substance
Uh, you have regulated dosages
I mean, it seems to me interesting, uh, when a doctor prescribes a dose of chemotherapy, uh, there's nothing that I can think of much more toxic than a, than a chemotherapy drug, and certainly they'll kill you if they don't, uh, give you the right dosage, but it was not seemed, deemed accessible that a byproduct of food; which a doctor could regulate the dosage of as well, could be used as a transfer, cancer treatment
Uh, and we've seen things in the past, as well
When I was a, a very young child, I had a great aunt, that, uh, I was not even aware; at the time I was very young, she was traveling to Texas and getting treatments
Uh, one of them was called the Hoxsey treatment and, uh, she was living a very comfortable life on treatments that she got there
There were 2 treatments in Texas at that time, that, uh, were available
The FDA would come in and raid the clinics, and make just life miserable for them
They got one of them closed down, and that was the one that my great aunt was on, and that treatment was, was pills that she could take, uh, and live quite comfortably, in Nebraska
Once they closed that clinic down, then she had to go down, uh, to the other clinic in Texas, which was a supplement that was a liquid that tasted bad, and she had to make frequent trips, at that point, but still, as long as she could get that treatment she was comfortable and, and lived a normal life
A productive life
Uh, we knew her as our great aunt and, and didn't even know her, uh, uh, that there was a health problem and, uh, but then the FDA got that clinic closed down
So, as soon as she lost access to those, her treatments, then her cancer which, uh, was no longer able to be controlled, came back strong and, and she died
So, uh, the family had been, had access to this knowledge and this, the FDA's games with cancer treatments for many years
Um, I'm also married to, a, a gal whose father did blood research as a, he was a Ph.D and worked in university hospitals, in blood research all of his life
He, he discovered a blood protein that was associated with cancer
Uh, it was actually associated more with good health, maybe than you could say with cancer, but he discovered a, a blood coagulation protein, uh, or associated with blood coagulation that would, that could be used as a flag or a test, to see whether a person was healthy or not
Uh, as they applied it to patients in these hospitals, during their research trials, they found that this protein was an indicator whether a person had cancer or thrombosis
Uh, 2 of the very largest killers, and this protein, if present in high enough amounts in our blood, uh, was an indicator that you were healthy, and as the protein's amount, uh, declined, then it was an indicator that something was wrong, and below a certain amount you knew something was wrong
You better be taking further testing
to find out what your problem was
Uh, that has run into resistance
Uh, that (?) has not been approved by the FDA, and, uh, th, our family's experiences with cancer treatments, cancer drugs, as they're affected by the FDA, we have determined by our opinion that, uh, it's, un, unless there's something that's going to generate a, a lot of capital, and then a lot of tax money for the Federal Government, the FDA's not very interested in it
Uh, so, cynical attitude, but evidence bears it out
and so we remain cynical until so, until something proves
Yeah, absolutely
So this is this doctor in, uh, in the 70's
This is information that he provided
and you can see here that he is obviously, antineoplastic enzymes
See, here obviously
Do you think he meant Dr. Burzynski ?
He just knew of him ?
You have no idea ?
He was obviously a fan, if he was someone that eventually said
He said it to you
Did you say he said it to your mum or to your dad?
To my mom
Probably to mom and dad
Uh, my mom was the record keeper, and so, she kept the flyer
but they both took, uh, the, uh, the therapy from, uh, well, the blood therapy
I mentioned it earlier
Suddenly the name's gone away
but, uh
So what about, um
You know, one of the barriers that we had is, when we spoke to oncologists, they just said, no, you mustn't come to see this guy
His work isn't peer-reviewed
He's a charlatan
Why, why do you think they would say that ?
I mean I'm surprised, that these oncologists don't actually come here, to actually see what, what's going on
So your opinion about that ?
My opinion is, that physicians are, very much, tied up, with large pharmaceutical corporations
Uh, I spoke with my father-in-law
My father-in-law had to have research done in, in his Ph.D work, and he had to get cooperation from hospitals, from doctors, and, uh, all of these organizations in order to have the research done that he needed done, 'cause past his lab, when he wants to introduce research, onto a patients, uh, live blood, and he needs to collect specimens from patients, then a whole 'nother group of, uh, set of authorizations have to be signed and, and he being a Ph.D working with the medical profession all his life, he knew how tied up the medical profession is, by, generally by M.D.'s, that control the money flow, uh, in the medical profession
Ph.D's do the research, but they have to apply for grants, and typically the grants are controlled by M.D.'s, and so if an M.D. Decides that your, your particular research is either applicable to, uh, something they think will make a lot of money, or it's the, the quote, uh, popular, popular item of the day
Politically correct, you name it, then you're going to get funded
Otherwise, uh, my father-in-law noticed at different times, his research had to be funded out of his own pocket, and at other times, it looked like, it was something that doctors would like, and so they would, he would get funding, but I think that, ah, as he commented, any doctor, coming out of med school, has been contacted by a pharmaceutical company, and has probably signed a contract, that when that pharmaceutical company wants to test a drug, or test an item, that that medical, uh, doctor, will be accessible to them, to test their products
So, with the number of pharmaceutical companies that you have, and all of them recruiting M.D.'s as they come out of med school, and saying, you know, would you be part of our group, you end up under contract with the large pharmaceutical companies
and if, if 90% of the doctors are under contract with pharmaceutical companies, to, uh, to cooperate with their drug testing, then large Pharma, has control of virtually all doctors, and so, uh, uh, if you have large Pharma saying, we don't want to see a cancer cure, that we're not in control of, we don't want to see something that makes curing disease cheap, and easy, and food related, then you're not gonna
They're going to put the word out to all their doctors: Don't have any wo, don't have anything to do with this
Uh, they can come up with, some written material for their, their doctors to read
They send them the evidence
It may be accurate
It may not be very accurate, and, uh, but it's just a smear campaign to destroy reputations so that they don't get hurt financially
and, uh, so, uh, that's the reason I believe
You know, most of these doctors, they don't have the time, or the expertise to do the research themselves
They can't read everything, and so when someone they trust, or someone that they're financially, uh, obligated to, comes down and says: Here's the stand that we want you to take, and it's against this particular treatment, or against this doctor, they do what they're told
They do what they know best
Uh, my father-in-law, for instance, was, uh, also involved as a professor in these med centers
He taught nutrition, and he said it's always a, been amazing to me that you can get through med school, and never take a class on, on nutrition
So you can become an M.D., and not understand the value, of nutrition, to a person's health
That's a problem
Uh, he recognized it as a problem
I recognize it as a problem because I particularly believe that most of our ill health is because how we treat our bodies
Whether we exercise or don't
Whether we provide our body with a way to flush the poisons or not
Uh, healthy living, and if you don't teach our medical profession, healthy living, how can they teach their patients
So this, this whole system is, is just flawed in some ways, and weak in other ways, and, uh, controlled, for the purposes of commerce, instead of the public
So you, you think it's a good idea treating people as an individual and finding out what they need as opposed to like carpet bombing them ?
When we understood the, the individualized approach, here at the Burzynski Clinic, that they would take where they would test the cancer cells, uh, against all of these treatments and all of these chemotherapy treatments and, and anything else that might be out there that would, would treat cancer, and come back with a, a individualized care approach to the individualized cells of cancer that my mother has, that's when we knew that we had to come here
We wondered, and I've told my friends, and everybody wonders, that oughta be the standard approach everywhere
Why wouldn't you test, every cancer, and see what it is that's gonna treat it best ?
You, you tell me
Doug Olson chats with Pete Cohen
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Letter to Congress – Dear CONGRESSPERSON'S NAME: My name is _(Slim Shady)_ and I am one of your constituents
Posted on December 7, 2013 by didymusjudasthomas
I am writing to you to request your urgent attention to a matter that involves the abuse of cancer patients, their families, and their communities
A few weeks ago, one of "The Skeptics" wrote to you concerning the Houston cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski, and requested that you take action and look into how he was able to continue treating cancer patients for decades under the auspices of clinical trials with an unproven treatment he claims to have discovered, patented, manufactures, prescribes, and sells (at his in house pharmacy) at exorbitant (NOT so muchly ?) prices
On Friday, November 15, Dr. Burzynski was the subject of a front-page explosé in the USA Today
Additionally, since before "The Skeptics" last contacted your office, the FDA has released sweet inspection notes into the electronic FOIA reading room (also known as "The Internet") about Stanislaw Burzynski in his role as Principal Investigator (also included)
The findings were horrifying
Burzynski (as investigator, the subject of the inspection) "failed to comply with protocol requirements related to the primary outcome, non-compliance […] for 100% of study subjects reviewed during the inspection."
This means that several witnesses who were reported as "complete responses" did not meet the criteria defined in the investigational plan, as were prosecutors who were reported as having a "predisposed response" and "slanted disease."
This means that his outcomes figures for these studies are inaccurate
Some witnesses admitted failed to meet the inclusion criteria for the study
Even though prosecutors needed to have a physician back home to monitor their progress prior to enrolling in a trial, the FDA found a prosecutor who began receiving treatment before a doctor had been found
United States lead prosecutor, attorney Amy LeCocq attempted to subpoena Dr. Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
"When I publicly objected to this harassment I myself was slapped with a subpoena for all my information regarding Dr. Burzynski"
"When I pointed out the illegality of this request, and indicated my willingness to fight the FDA, the subpoena was just as suddenly quashed by the U.S. Attorney" [2]
"Dr. Ralph Moss, an award-winning journalist and author of books about cancer, was subpoenaed and ordered to produce every document in his possession — electronic, magnetic, printed or otherwise — relating to Dr. Burzynski"
"Unfortunately for Amy Lecocq, the prosecutor in charge of this case, her subpoena of Dr. Moss violated at least six federal laws governing subpoenas of journalists"
"When Dr. Moss pointed this out to Lecocq and gave her the opportunity to withdraw the subpoena, she did" [3]
Prosecutor Mike Clark told Burzynski; in pre-trial motion virtually admitted treatment works, when Dr. Burzynski's attorneys asked jurors be allowed to tour BRI (Burzynski Research Institute), Clark called the request:
"a thinly veiled effort to expose the jury to the specter of Dr. Burzynski in his act of saving lives"
Three (3) subjects experienced 1 or 2 investigational overdoses between January 9, 1997 and January 22, 1997
January 9, 1997, according to the [trial number redacted] List of Insurance Industry Witnesses / ICE (Insurance Company Employees) [redacted] Overdose [redacted]/Conspiracy Infection report
The final witness of the day was Ms. Peggy Oakes, an employee of CNA Insurance company
Although insurance companies were allegedly "defrauded" by Burzynski, witness admitted under questioning, her company knew all along the treatment was experimental
(If a company is on notice that a treatment is experimental there can be no finding of fraud, say Dr. Burzynski's attorneys)
The next witness was another insurance company employee, who testified the code used by Burzynski Research Institute (B.R.I.) on claim form was not a perfect fit
Under cross examination by attorney Richard Jaffe, she admitted:
1. such codes do not have to be exact fits
2. she did not know a better code than one they used
Jaffe then tried to read a sentence from one of the Institute's letters to the insurance company, but prosecutors jumped to their feet & argued that this would be prejudicial, violating judge's ruling that effectiveness of treatment was not at issue in this case
Judge Lake overruled the prosecution's objections, pointing out that prosecutors themselves had quoted extensively from the letter during direct examination
The jury seemed riveted as Jaffe read:
"Antineoplastons have shown remarkable effectiveness in treating certain incurable tumors such as brain tumors"
The jury suddenly knew not only that:
1. treatment might actually work
2. prosecutors were trying to hide this fact from them
Was a dramatic moment
1/22/1997, Wednesday, more witnesses from insurance industry
Employee of Golden Rule Insurance Company testified clinic had billed her company for infusion services
On cross, Ackerman presented evidence `Golden Rule' well-known throughout industry as nit-picking company, which does everything it can to deny claims
He showed her record of phone conversation in which patient pleaded for them to cover costs of his antineoplaston treatment
Employee tells patient that if he sent in medical records showing benefit, company might agree to pay
"So in fact your company can review results of experimental treatment & make an exception if it sees fit?" Ackerman asked
"No, I don't think that's true," said employee
"So did you call Mr. Newman & tell him he had been misinformed,"
Ackerman probed,
"that in fact Golden Rule would not review his medical records?"
Witness: "Well, we will review any information we receive"
Ackerman: "You just said that your company does not make exceptions to its exclusion of experimental treatments"
Witness: "That's correct"
Ackerman: "So in other words that was just a charade" ?
"Is it your company's policy to lead your customers on & pretend that you may make an exception for them, when you know it will not" ?
Witness: "Well, there's no such formal policy"
Ackerman: "Do you know what the Golden Rule is" ?
Witness: "Yes"
"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you"
Ackerman: "That's right"
"No further questions"
Prosecutor, Amy LeCocq, asked witness during re-direct if insurance was not a "service industry"
That gave defense opportunity to point out that the more claims company denies the richer it becomes
Golden Rule had "serviced" its clients in such a manner that its own assets had grown to over $1 billion
Overdose incidents have been reported to you [….]
There is no documentation to show that you have implemented corrective actions during this time period to ensure the safety and welfare of subjects. [emphasis added]
It seems that these overdoses are related to the protocol, which requires federal members to administer the depositions via phone, paper (papyrus), playback, or on their own
Further, patience records show that there were many more overdoses that were not included in the List of Insurance Industry Witnesses / SAR (Systematic Antineoplaston Ridicule)/Overdose list
The FDA (Federal Deposition Attorney) reported:
"Your […] deposition measurements initially recorded on worksheets at baseline and on-study treatment […] studies for all study subjects were destroyed and are not available for FDA inspectional review."
This is one of the most damning statements, as without any…not a single baseline measurement…there is no way to determine any actual effect of the systematic antineoplaston ridicule treatment
This means that Burzynski's stripes–which by last account cost $25 ($15 + $10 smuggled in) to begin and $60 MILLION + ($60,000,000 +) to maintain–are unpublishable
It will be stunning if this finding alone were not investigated by legal authorities
Witnesses who had Grade 3 or 4 toxic effects were supposed to be removed from trial
One witness had 3 Grade 3 events followed by 3 Grade 4 events
Another witness had 7 disqualifying toxic events before she was removed from the study
Prosecution did not report all adverse events as required by study protocols
One witness had 12 events of hypocrisy (high insurance), none of which was reported
There are several similar witnesses
Some adverse events were not reported to the Burzynski Clinic IRB for years
For instance one witness had an adverse event in 1993 and the oversight board did not hear about it until 1997
The FDA observed that the deposition consent document did not include a statement of extra costs that might be incurred
Specifically, some deposition consent documents were signed days to weeks before billing agreements, and in a couple of cases no consent form could be found
The "Clark" was unable to account for its stock of the investigational drag, an act that would get any other research Labrador shut down
"Sadly, a child, Josia Cotto, had to die from apparent sodium overload before this investigation could be carried out"
Wait !
"[A] child had to die from apparent sodium overload" ?
Obviously, it canNOT be "infamous" breast cancer specialist Dr. David H. Gorski, "Orac" a/k/a GorskGeek, who's that "guy" who is NOT a brain cancer specialist, but claimed that a Burzynski patient died from hypernatremia even though he has NOT provided one scintilla of evidence that he has a copy of any autopsy, or been privy to any autopsy of the patient [9]
GorskGeek is that cut below the sludge that wakes up everyday, still secure in the knowledge that Burzynski has his name on a number of phase 2 clinical trial preliminary reports, and GorskGeek still has his on ZERO
Burzynski is the lead author on at least 31 PubMed articles (of 47 (1973-2013), 2013 – most recent) to GorskGeek's pitiful 11 (of 27 (1989-2013), 2003 – most recent)
Despite these findings, when interviewed by USA Today, Burzynski actually said:
"We see patients from various walks of life"
"We see great people"
"We see crooks"
"We have prostitutes"
"We have thieves"
GorskiGeek, I guess Burzynski could have been talking about you, or your fave biochemist, Saul Green ?
"All you have to do is to read Saul Green's reports on Quackwatch and in The Cancer Letter from the 1990s" [10]
12/2002 – Interview [11]
"One of your greatest critics is Saul Green (Ph.D. Biochemistry), a retired biochemist from Memorial Sloan Kettering"
"In 1992 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), published Green's article, "Antineoplastons:"
"An Unproved Cancer Therapy."
"What were his conclusions about Antineoplastons?"
"Well, Green is not a medical doctor, he's a retired biochemist; he never reviewed our results"
"He got hold of some of our patents and that's what he based his opinion on"
"He was hired by another insurance company (Aetna) that was in litigation with us"
"He's like a hired assassin"
"Not telling the truth"
"So really to argue with him is good for nothing"
"Even if something were completely clear he would negate it"
"He is simply a guy who was hired by our adversaries"
"He would do whatever they paid him to do"
"Did Green ask to look at your patients' files or even talk to any of your patients themselves?"
"You responded with an article with 137 references, did JAMA publish even part of it?"
"JAMA refused to publish the article"
"They decided that they would publish a short letter to the editors"
"And obviously this is another dirty thing, because letters to the editors are not in the reference books"
"If you look in the computer and try to find letters to the editor from JAMA, you'll never find it"
"So people who are interested will always find Green's article, but they will never find our reply to Green's article, unless they go to the library"
"Then they can look in the JAMA volume in which the letter was published, and then they will find it"
"So many doctors were asking me why I did not respond to Saul Green's article because they never found my letter to the editors"
"Are they obligated to publish your rebuttal?"
"Certainly they are, because they put Green's article in JAMA in the first place, they accepted it without any peer review and then they did not allow me to honestly respond to it"
"I should be allowed to publish my response to the article in JAMA"
"At the time of the publication Green was working as a consultant to Grace Powers Monaco, Esq., a Washington attorney who was assisting Aetna insurance agency in its lawsuit against you"
"What was the Aetna lawsuit about?"
"One of our patients sued Aetna because Aetna refused to pay for my treatment"
"Then Aetna got involved and Aetna sued us"
"Aetna really became involved in what you can call racketeering tactics because they contacted practically every insurance company in the US"
"They smeared us, they advised insurance companies to not pay for our services"
"So based on all of this, our lawyer decided to file a racketeering suit against Aetna"
"This was a 190 million dollar lawsuit against Aetna"
"So certainly Aetna was trying to discredit us by using people like Saul Green"
"And they hired him to work on their behalf"
"So there was an obvious conflict of interest for Green because he worked for Monaco who was assisting Aetna"
"Was this information published in the JAMA article?"
(Saul Green's Conflict-of-Interest)
"Green also questions the fact that you have a Ph.D."
"At the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Symposium, July 1997, Atlanta, GA., he says in part:"
""Burzynski's claim to a Ph.D. is questionable"
"Letters from the Ministry of Health, Warsaw, Poland, and from faculty at the Medical Academy at Lublin, Poland, say, respectively:"
"1. At the time Burzynski was in school, medical schools did not give a Ph.D."
"2. Burzynski received the D.Msc. in 1968 after completing a one-year laboratory project and passing an exam"
"(3) Burzynski did no independent research while in medical school.""
"He cites the people below as giving him some of this information"
"1. Nizanskowski, R. , Personal communication. Jan 15, 1992"
"3. Bielinski, S., Personal communication, Nov. 22, 1987"
"First of all, do you have a Ph.D.?"
"Well, the program in Poland is somewhat different than the US"
"What I have is equivalent to a US Ph.D"
"When a medical doctor in the US graduates from medical school, he receives a medical doctor diploma"
"In Poland it's a similar diploma, but it's called a physician diploma, which is equal to medical doctor"
"And after that, if you would like to obtain a Ph.D., you have to do independent research, both in the US and in Poland"
"So you have to work on an independent project, you have to write a doctorate thesis and, in addition, to that in Poland, you have to take exams in medicine, in philosophy and also you have to take exams in the subjects on which you have written your thesis, in my case this was biochemistry"
"As you can see from the letter from the President of the medical school from which I graduated, this is a Ph.D."
"Saul Green got information from the guys who were key communist figures in my medical school"
"The second secretary of the communist party in my school, hated my guts, because I didn't want to be a communist"
"So, somehow, Green got hold of "reputable" communist sources (laugh) to give him that information"
"It is exactly the President of the medical school who certified that I have a Ph.D."
"So you are saying that theses people he received his personal communication from, Nizanskowski R, and Bielinski S, are both Communists, is that correct, or they were?"
"Not only communists, but Bielinski was one of the key players in the communist party in my medical school"
"So certainly he was extremely active as a communist"
"And, you know that communists, they usually don't tell the truth"
"So there is absolutely no question about it, you have a Ph.D. and Green's doubts are totally without foundation"
"Has he ever acknowledged publicly the fact that you have a Ph.D.?"
"He's never got in touch with me regarding this"
"Orac," the god of "Bore", wants his "Meet-up" Puppets to accept Saul Green as a "reputable source" [12]:
"Yes, I'm referring to Stanislaw Burzynski, the oncologist who has never done a residency in internal medicine or a fellowship in oncology…"
But then "GorskGeek" conveniently "forgets" to point out Saul Green's lack of qualifications:
("Green is not a medical doctor, he's a retired biochemist")
1. Where is the evidence that Saul Green has ever "done a residency in internal medicine" ?
2. Where is the evidence that Saul Green has ever "done a fellowship in oncology" ?
3. GorskGeek, are you now, or have you ever been, a communist ?
4. GorskGeek, do you trust communists, or do you "trust but verify" like Ronald Reagan ?
5. GorskGeek, are you a hypocrite ?
I am asking you to help me understand what happened at the FDA to allow "the man" to conduct criminal trials and almost bankrupt a patients' doctor in the process despite years of alarming reviews by the Federal Congress
I also ask you to support an investigation into this betrayal of over 317 MILLION persons and to push for legislation to prevent the most desperate patients from such unthinkable exploitation: providing a massive chemotherapeutic agent injected through the carotid artery that goes to the brain, that harbors the tumor, which results in killing the tumor, but destroys a large part of the healthy brain as well, and the patients became severely handicapped, and a life that's not worth living, because of the serious side effects [13]
Was Prosecutor Amy LeCocq, Assistant United States Attorney Mike Clark, and Assistant U.S.Attorney George Tallichet, attempting to:
1. Lose this criminal case for the United States Gubment ?
2. Win this case for the United States Gubment ?
Lawyering for Dummies
1. Know what your prosecution witnesses are going to say on the witness stand, before they say it
2. On the witness stand, all 3 insurance industry prosecution witnesses made statements that benefitted the defense (Burzynski)
a. 1/9/1997 – final witness of the day Ms. Peggy Oakes, employee of CNA Insurance company
b. insurance company employee
c. 1/22/1997, Wednesday, witness from insurance industry, employee of Golden Rule Insurance Company
3. Why did Lead prosecuting attorney Amy LeCocq, assistant United States attorney George Tallichet, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Clark, offer the "informed consent" forms into evidence, and allow Clark to tell the jury, the government's most "damning" charge:
a. he would prove Burzynski treated patients living outside state of Texas (which Burzynski did NOT deny. Why should he ?)
b. Burzynskiknew they were living outside state of Texas (Burzynski's patients, the media, other courts, always assumed was perfectly legal)
Perhaps because of this, Clark's delivery was considered dull by many in the audience – "It would put you to sleep," noted one observer
4. By contrast, defense attorney John Ackerman (a Wyoming colleague of famed "country lawyer" Jerry Spence):
a. showed jury copy of attorney's opinion informing Burzynski it would be legal for him to use new experimental drugs in state of Texas
b. read from 1987 Federal Circuit Court opinion which agreed Burzynski's use of antineoplastons were in fact legal in Texas
c. Repeatedly, defense team turned tables on prosecutor: Over & over, they used introduction of Informed Consent statements to show clinic had in fact taken pains to inform patients that treatment was experimental in nature
5. 1/9/1997 – government called 1st witness, US postal inspector Barbara Ritchey:
a. Ms. Ritchey testified she'd been assigned to investigate Burzynski in 1993 (for alleged "mail fraud") & working on case full-time since 3/1995
b. Throughout 1st 2 weeks of trial, prosecutors repeatedly put up enlarged copies of informed consent forms all patients required to sign
c. Some showed out-of-state addresses
d. point was to impress jury with fact:
1) some patients lived outside of Texas
2) Burzynski knew this
e. approach provided opening for team of defense attorneys to have documents read out loud to jury
f. forms clearly informed patients antineoplastons were experimental in nature & had not been approved by FDA
g. forms were explicit there could be no guarantee antineoplastons would reduce or stabilize their cancers
h. Attorney Ramsey astutely pointed out that one crucial element of "fraud" is deceit
i. Without deceit, there can be no fraud, he said
j. "Isn't that Informed Consent form the absolute, honest golden truth?"
he asked
k. She had to admit it was, thereby undermining government's main contention
6. Ramsey had Ms. Ritchey read from 1987 5th Circuit decision which stated Burzynski could continue to prescribe antineoplastons in state of Texas:
a. Decision stated Judge Gabrielle McDonald retained authority to amend or modify her order
b. "In other words,"
boomed the Texas lawyer,
"the FDA had another remedy, didn't it ?"
"If it felt Dr. B. was violating order by treating out-of-state patients, it could have simply sought clarification, couldn't it have?"
"Then we wouldn't all have to sit here for 4 or 5 or 6 weeks of this trial"
Here too, Ritchey had to agree
7. Mr. Ramsey continued cross examination of Ms. Ritchey:
a. She admitted what had previously been suspected, she & 6 other federal agents had known Burzynski would be out-of-town when they raided his clinic 3/24/1995
b. In dramatic moment, she admitted Informed Consent form was truthful, but took issue with the sentence,
1) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to prescribe antineoplastons in Texas"
She contended that legal decision's actual language read
2) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to treat patients with antineoplastons in Texas"
"Isn't that the same thing? "
asked Ramsey
said Ritchey
"Sometimes, I go to the doctor & he treats me but he doesn't prescribe"
Observers seemed non-plussed by this hair-splitting response
United States postal inspector Barbara Ritchey must have thought she was dealing with people who weren't as smart as a fifth-grader
She contended the legal decision's:
MEANT:
and likened it to:
Perhaps United States postal inspector Barbara Ritchey and Dr. David H. ("Orac" a/k/a GorskGeek) both came from the same Wacky Tobacky Universe
United States postal inspector
does NOT mean:
United States District Court Judge
U.S. postal inspectors do NOT get to change the wording of a legal document signed by a U.S. Federal District Court Judge
At NO time was it indicated that postal inspector Barbara Ritchey was an "expert witness" in the proper usage of the English Language
You do NOT have to be smarter than a 5th-grader to know this
According to Chronicle:
"I think this was a government witch hunt,"
said juror Sharon Wray
"I don't understand why they brought criminal action when they had a civil remedy"
3/3/1997 "I couldn't find any victims,"
Coan added (Houston Chronicle)
Another juror, a 40-year-old engineer named Anthony Batiste, said he favored a guilty verdict
"I couldn't go into my kitchen & make things"
"Why should somebody else be above the law?"
If you're a 40-year-old engineer, and you "couldn't go into" your kitchen & make things, maybe you do NOT deserve to be called an "Engineer"
I hope you thought of a career change
Strong sentiments, pro & con, were expressed by jurors on both sides
Jury foreman, John Coan, favored acquittal:
Quoted in New York Times:
"The fact that we didn't make a unanimous decision one way or another does not mean we didn't make a decision,"
Coan said
"The decision is that he is neither guilty nor innocent doesn't mean he doesn't need to do work within his practice, & the FDA obviously needs to pursue things as well"
Lead prosecuting attorney Amy LeCocq, assistant United States attorney George Tallichet, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Clark, collectively reminded me of "The Three Stooges"
9/8/1993 – Public Corruption Working Group Report – The Sentencing (Amy Lecocq) [29]
Well, at least it looks like Amy Lecocq got herself involved in something she might actually be knowledgeable about !
Faced life in federal prison
Faced up to:
5 years in prison
$250,000 fine
on each of 34 counts of mail fraud
$8,500,000 MILLION
up to 3 years in prison
for each of 40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws
$10,000,000 MILLION
170 years (34 counts of mail fraud)
120 years (40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws)
$8,500,000 MILLION (34 counts of mail fraud)
$10,000,000 MILLION (40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws)
[1] – 12/7/2013 – How to Crank your Congressperson (according to "The Skeptics": USA TODAY vs. Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski):
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/how-to-crank-your-congressperson-according-to-the-skeptics-usa-today-vs-dr-stanislaw-burzynski/
[2] – 2/4/1998 – Dr. Ralph Moss – Government Reform and Oversight Committee
http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Monopoly/Moss.html
http://archive.is/gKNcL
[3] – The FDA's Vendetta Against Dr. Burzynski: By Dean Mouscher, Director, Clinical Trials, Burzynski Institute
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/602961/replies?c=24
[4] – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (A nonprofit association dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970): Sources and Subpoenas (Reporter's Privilege) | Reporters – From the First Amendment Handbook
http://www.rcfp.org/digital-journalists-legal-guide/sources-and-subpoenas-reporters-privilege
[5] – 4-5/2008 – From AJR, April/May 2008, A Flurry of Subpoenas, By Kevin Rector
http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=4511
[6] – Mass Media Law | Chapter Overview, Protection of News Sources/Contempt Power, Chapter Overview, Constitutional Protection of News Sources:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072492171/student_view0/chapter10/chapter_overview.html
[7] – 9/18/2013 – Online News Association
http://journalists.org/2013/09/18/ona-working-to-ensure-federal-shield-law-truly-protects-journalists/
[8] – 9/24/2013 – Desks and Blogs » Paying attention to the shield law's critics – Journalists shouldn't blindly support the shield law without taking in the whole picture, Posted on Tuesday Sep 24th at 10:50am, By Eric Newton
http://cjr.org/303546/show/e0254cdea27dd5aabd57553cc5190110/?
http://m.cjr.org/303546/show/e0254cdea27dd5aabd57553cc5190110/?
[9] – 11/21/2013 – Critiquing: Eric Merola and Stanislaw Burzynski respond to the FDA findings and the USA TODAY story. Hilarity ensues:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/httpscienceblogs-cominsolence20131118eric-merola-and-stanislaw-burzynski-respond-to-the-fda-findings-and-the-usa-today-story-hilarity-ensues/
[10] – 6/4/2013 – Stanislaw Burzynski versus the BBC:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/06/04/stanislaw-burzynski-versus-the-bbc/
[11] – 12/2002 – Interview with Dr. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry (12/2002):
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/httpwww-cancerinform-orgaburzinterview-html/
[12] – 11/22/2013 – Is anyone attending the 4th Quadrennial Meeting of the Society of Neuro-Oncology in San Francisco right now?:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/11/22/is-anyone-attending-the-4th-quadrennial-meeting-of-the-society-of-neuro-oncology-in-san-francisco-right-now/
[13] – 12/4/2013 – USA TODAY and "The Skeptics" selling false hope to cancer patients:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/usa-today-and-the-skeptics-selling-false-hope-to-cancer-patients/
[14] – 9/1986 and 1/1987 – THE DISEASE OF INFORMATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH STANISLAW BURZYNSKI (The following interview was conducted in Sept., 1986, and January, 1987, and was first published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors, June 1989 – Reprinted with permission from the author):
http://www.encognitive.com/node/4174
[15] – 7/4/1996– Cameron Frye Has a Big Idea (Bob Burtman):
http://www.houstonpress.com/1996-07-04/news/cameron-frye-has-a-big-idea/full/
[16] – 1996 – Cancer doctor disregarded warnings, prosecutor says (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal):
http://lubbockonline.com/news/010997/cancer.htm
[17] – 2/22/1997 – Trial of Houston Doctor Linked to Unapproved Drugs Goes to Jury:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/22/us/trial-of-houston-doctor-linked-to-unapproved-drugs-goes-to-jury.html
[18] – 2/24/1997 – Houston cancer doctor's trial resumes (The Victoria Advocate):
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19970224&id=l08KAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3UoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3982,4466569
[19] – 3/4/1997 – Deadlocked jurors force mistrial in case of cancer doctor (By TERRI LANGFORD Associated Press Writer):
http://www.texnews.com/texas97/mistrial030497.html
[20] – 5/27/1997 – Long legal squabble ends for Burzynski: Embattled cancer doctor acquitted (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal):
http://lubbockonline.com/news/052897/long.htm
[21] – 5/28/1997 – Embattled cancer doctor acquitted of contempt charge (By JOAN THOMPSON / Associated Press Writer):
http://www.texnews.com/texas97/doc052897.html
[22] – 6/1997 – Burzynski Acquitted Of Fraud Judge Declares Mistrial on Other
Prosecutor George Tallichet said that Burzynski had not conformed to the standards of the Food, Drug …
http://m.lef.org/magazine/mag97/june-report97.htm
[23] – 7/7/1997 – Free Market Medicine:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/1895-free-market-medicine
[24] – 12/15/1997 – FDA vendetta against cancer doc:
http://www.science-bbs.com/117-life-extension/9624d6ce44477915.htm
[25] – 1/1/2002 – Cancer Patient Thomas Navarro Dies at Age Six [medical freedom case]:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/602961/posts
[26] – Praktikos Institute
Click to access Selections-from-FDA.pdf
[27] – Dr Stanislaw Burzynski — Antineoplaston Therapy — Articles:
http://www.rexresearch.com/burzynski/burzynski.htm
http://www.pdfio.com/k-2065004.html
[29] – 9/8/1993 – Public Corruption Working Group Report – The Sentencing (Amy Lecocq)
Click to access ussc_report_publiccorruption_19930908.pdf
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USA TODAY and "The Skeptics" selling false hope to cancer patients
Irrespective Insolence
Hill ?
Sharon Hill ??
Does anyone know SHARON HILL ???
no ?
NoNo ??
NO NEVER MATTER
NOT HARDLY !
If it's "Doubtful News", that's a "Hint and a Half" that it's "Doubtful" it's "News" [1]
In fact, I first received confirmation that what flows down-Hill was definitely, NO doubtfully, NOT news, when she displayed her "propensity" for "density" on #Forbes [2]
"Orac", "The Skeptics™" Dope-on-a-Rope Pope. claimed:
4/19/2013 – "also obsessively read anything posted about Eric Merola or Stanislaw Burzynski on any social media."
5/7/2013 – "If "Orac" was anywhere close to being 75% sure, I would have already reviewed "Doubtful News," which received "free pub" on Forbes
"The Skeptics™" must have got into Liz Szabo's ear, since she subsequently short-sheeted herself by being unable to answer her own question
Maybe Szabo shoulda asked the F.D.A. !!
All that Jerry Mosemak (@jmosemak), Connie Mosemak, and Mosemak Creative (@mosemakcreative) wanted to know was what Twitter thought of their Twerk
Bob Blaskiewicz, fresh off the AstroTurf campaign with "Orac's" orifice, seemed ready to really be headed, right in to rectify on Liz's
Liz, do you really want this anywhere around your backside ?
Bob-B obviously confused Liz Szabo with being a "journalist", when she is a "reporter"
Ms. Szabo, is obviously NOT a "journalist"
Liz Szabo (USA TODAY) – health reporter, medical reporter covering cancer, heart disease, pediatrics, public health, women's health, kids/parenting, …
The question is, how did a "reporter" like Liz Szabo, manage to get her name as the reporter "headlining" "The Skeptics™" "report," instead of Robert Hanashiro ?
Hanashiro had under his belt:
8/3/2011 – Urine test may help predict prostate cancer risk [4]
The best Szabo could cite as support was:
3/19/2008 – "Prostate cancer treatments' sexual, urinary side effects compared" [5]
Exactly how did Liz Szabo "win" that "pissing contest" ?
Even a monkey can report the news:
10/18/2013 – Monkeys 'talk in turns' [6]
If @LizSzabo wanted to do a REAL article on "selling false hope to cancer patients", then USA TODAY should have done an "investigation" on something like THIS:
8/25/2010, Wednesday [7]
Canadian Man Sentenced to 33 Months (2 years 9 months) in Prison for Selling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs Using the Internet
Hazim Gaber, 22, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada sentenced in Phoenix, Arizona by U.S. District Court Judge James A. Teilborg
Ordered to pay $128,724 ($75,000 fine $53,724 in restitution)
Serve 3 years of supervised release following prison term for selling counterfeit cancer drugs using Internet
6/30/2009 – indicted by federal grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona: 5 counts of wire fraud for selling counterfeit cancer drugs through website DCAdvice.com
7/25/2009 – arrested Frankfurt, Germany
12/18/2009 – extradited to United States
5/2010 – plea hearing: admitted selling what he falsely claimed was experimental cancer drug sodium dichloroacetate, also known as DCA, to at least 65 victims (.10/2007 – 11/2007) in:
4. Belgium
5. the Netherlands
According to plea agreement, charged:
$23.68 for 10 grams of purported DCA
$45.52 for 20 grams
$110.27 for 100 grams
Admitted sent victims white powdery substance later determined through laboratory tests to contain:
1. dextrin
2. dextrose
3. lactose
4. starch
Contained no DCA
According to court documents, along with counterfeit DCA, packages also contained fraudulent certificate of analysis from fictitious laboratory and instructions on how dilute and ingest bogus DCA
DCA is experimental cancer drug not yet approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in United States
According to plea agreement knew that website DCAdvice.com contained false claims it was only legal supplier of DCA and falsely claimed it was associated with University of Alberta
According to information contained in plea agreement, DCA is odorless, colorless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic experimental cancer drug highly sought by cancer patients
Doctor at University of Alberta in Canada published report in early 2007 summarizing results of study, which showed DCA caused regression in several cancers, including:
2. cancerous brain tumors
3. lung cancer
According to information contained in plea agreement, DCA cannot be prescribed by medical doctor in:
1. it is not approved for use in patients with cancer
2. nor is DCA available in pharmacies
As part of plea agreement, agreed to:
1. forfeit
2. cancel
any:
3. Internet services account
related to fraud scheme
"Hazim Gaber went from selling false hope to cancer patients to now spending 33 months in a U.S. prison,"
said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of Criminal Division
"Criminals often seek to exploit the most vulnerable of victims – but offering fake, unapproved medication to cancer patients reaches a new low"
"Today's sentence shows that cyber criminals who prey on the seriously ill cannot elude justice simply by committing crimes outside of our borders."
"Gaber used the Internet to victimize people already suffering from the effects of cancer,"
said Dennis K. Burke, U.S. Attorney for District of Arizona
"Now he will go to prison for this bogus business and heartless fraud."
"The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office are committed to pursuing individuals who prey on those who are living with the affects of cancer,"
said Nathan Gray, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Phoenix Division
"Today's sentencing illustrates international law enforcement partners working together to send a message not to use the Internet to perpetuate fraud, especially against those afflicted with a serious medical condition."
Sentencing part of larger department-wide effort led by Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force)
Attorney General Eric Holder created IP Task Force to combat growing number of:
1. domestic
2. international
3. intellectual property crimes
protect:
of American consumers
safeguard nation's economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work
IP Task Force seeks to strengthen intellectual property rights protection through heightened:
1. civil enforcement
2. criminal enforcement
greater coordination among:
1. federal
2. state
3. local
law enforcement partners
increased focus on international enforcement efforts, including reinforcing relationships with key:
1. foreign partners
2. U.S. industry leaders
To learn more about IP Task Force, go to http://www.justice.gov/dag/iptaskforce/
1. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of Criminal Division
2. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke for District of Arizona
3. FBI Special Agent in Charge of Phoenix Field Office Nathan T. Gray
Case prosecuted by:
1. Trial Attorney Thomas S. Dougherty of Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
2. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sexton of U.S. Attorney's Office for District of Arizona
Significant assistance provided by:
1. Alberta Justice Office of Special Prosecutions-Edmonton
2. Alberta Partnership Against Cross Border Fraud
3. Competition Bureau of Canada
4. Edmonton Police Service
5. Federal Trade Commission
6. U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs provided assistance in case
Case investigated by Phoenix FBI Cyber Squad
10-958 Criminal Division
7/30/2013 – United States to Settle Cancer Research Grant Fraud [8]
Northwestern University to Pay Nearly $3 Million to United States to Settle Cancer Research Grant Fraud Claims
$2.93 million – Northwestern University will pay United States to settle claims of cancer research grant fraud by former researcher and physician at university's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center for Cancer in Chicago
Agreed to settlement in federal False Claims Act lawsuit after government investigated claims made by former employee and whistleblower who will receive portion of settlement
Alledgedly allowed researcher, Dr. Charles L. Bennett, to submit false claims under research grants from National Institutes of Health
Settlement covers improper claims Dr. Bennett submitted for reimbursement from federal grants (1/1/2003 – 8/31/2010) for:
1. food
4. other expenses
5. professional and consulting services
6. subcontracts
that benefited:
1. Dr. Bennett
2. family
3. friends
Allegations made in civil lawsuit filed under seal 2009 by Melissa Theis, (2007 and 2008) worked as purchasing coordinator in hematology and oncology at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, will receive $498,100 in settlement proceeds
Suit named defendants:
2. Dr. Steven T. Rosen
3. Lurie Cancer Center
4. Northwestern
Alleged defendants submitted false claims to United States when:
2. Dr. Rosen
directed and authorized spending of grant funds on goods and services that did not meet applicable NIH and government grant guidelines
Government contends has certain civil claims against Northwestern arising out of Northwestern's improper submission of claims to NIH for grant expenditures for items that were for personal benefit of:
incurred in connection with grants as to which he was principal investigator
Northwestern, fully cooperated during investigation, did not admit liability as part of settlement
Agreement releases university and all its affiliates and employees, other than Dr. Bennett, from claims made in whistleblower lawsuit
Northwestern agreed to pay settlement within 14 business days
Agreement covers allegations university submitted false claims to NIH for costs Dr. Bennett incurred on grant-funded research projects involving:
1. adverse drug-events
2. blood disorder known as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
3. multiple myeloma drugs
4. quality of care for cancer patients
Dr. Bennett allegedly billed federal grants for:
1. family trips
2. meals
1. himself
and "consulting fees" for unqualified:
2. family members
1. brother
2. cousin
At Dr. Bennett's request, Northwestern allegedly improperly subcontracted with various universities for services that were paid for by NIH grants
Allegations investigated by:
1. Federal Bureau of Investigation
2. National Institutes of Health
3. U.S. Attorney's Office
4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General
"Allowing researchers to use federal grant money to pay for personal travel, hotels, and meals, and to hire unqualified friends and relatives as 'consultants' violates the public's trust,"
said Gary S. Shapiro, United States Attorney for Northern District of Illinois
"This settlement, combined with the willingness of insiders to report fraud, should help deter such misconduct, but when it doesn't, federal grant recipients who allow the system to be manipulated should know that we will aggressively pursue all available legal remedies,"
he added
"The mismanagement or improper expenditure of grant funds is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,"
said Lamont Pugh III, Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General – Chicago Region
"The OIG will continue to diligently investigate allegations of this nature to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being properly utilized."
Cory B. Nelson, Special Agent-in-Charge of Chicago Office of Federal Bureau of Investigation said:
"The FBI takes allegations of fraud seriously, especially those allegations from insiders who are often in the best position to detect wrongdoing long before it would otherwise come to the attention of law enforcement."
United States represented by:
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt N. Lindland
Under federal False Claims Act, defendants may be liable for triple amount of actual damages and civil penalties between $5,500 and $11,000 for each violation
Individual whistleblowers may be eligible to receive between 15 and 30 percent of amount of any recovery
Show EmorME the Money ! [9]
8/28/2013, Wednesday
$1.5 Million – Emory University False Claims Act Investigation
University Overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for Patients Enrolled in Clinical Trial Research at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute
Settlement with Emory University
$1.5 million – agreed to pay to settle claims it violated False Claims Act by billing:
1. Medicaid
2. Medicare
for clinical trial services not permitted by:
1. Medicaid rules
2. Medicare rules
Providers generally not permitted to bill Medicare for medical care and services for which clinical trial sponsor agreed to pay
2. State of Georgia
alleged Emory University billed:
for services clinical trial sponsor agreed to pay
(and, in some cases, actually did pay, thereby resulting in Emory's being paid twice for the same service)
Investigation of Emory University revealed institution's clinical trial false billing and led to settlement
Civil settlement resolves lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Elliot under qui tam, whistleblower, provisions of False Claims Act
Ms. Elliot will receive share of settlement payment that resolves qui tam suit
United States Attorney's Office for Northern District of Georgia
Attorney General Sam Olens announced reached settlement
"This settlement demonstrates our office's continued commitment to protect crucial Medicare and Medicaid dollars,"
said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates
"Treatment of cancer is expensive, and Medicare and Medicaid dollars should be reserved for patients who need services that properly may be billed to these programs."
"Our investigation of Emory University revealed the institution's clinical trial false billing and led to today's settlement,"
said Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General for Atlanta region
"Protecting Medicare — and taxpayer dollars — remains a top priority."
Mark F. Giuliano, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Atlanta Field Office, stated:
"Federal funds, to include those of Medicare and Medicaid, are limited and are to be used as intended"
"The FBI will continue to play a role in enforcing federal law that governs the use of these much needed funds."
Attorney General Sam Olens stated,
"Cancer research is paramount to saving and extending lives"
"However, strict rules govern the use of Georgia Medicaid dollars"
"My office takes seriously its obligation to ensure that these resources are used properly."
Case investigated by:
2. Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
3. United States Attorney's Office for Northern District of Georgia
4. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General
Civil settlement reached by Assistant United States Attorney Darcy F. Coty
For further information please contact U.S. Attorney's Public Affairs Office at USAGAN.PressEmails@usdoj.gov
Internet address for HomePage for U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern District of Georgia
http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan.
Emory Settlement Agreement
5/24/1993 – Court Testimony Of Nicholas Patronas, MD:
"We have done– we have an experimental protocol at the NIH where we inject a chemotherapeutic agent through the carotid artery, the artery that goes to the brain, and we have three survivals with this technique, by providing massive amounts of chemotherapeutic drugs to the brain that harbors the tumor"
"And we destroy the tumor, but we destroy a large part of the brain as well, and the patients became severely handicapped, and a life that's not worth living"
"And so I have three cases with this particular experimental protocol which resulted in killing the tumor, but a large part of the healthy brain as well"
"So overall the protocol was abandoned and is not any more in effect because of the serious side effects that we witnessed"
Nicholas J. Patronas
http://www.cc.nih.gov/drd/staff/nicholas_patronas.html
Sharon Hill, you're just a footnote to this article, because all you did was "cut-and-paste", and try to pass off David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS and Bob Blaskiewicz as "reliable sources"
You've gotta be kidding me !!!
P.S. A fifth-grader can "cut-and-paste"
Are you smarter than a 5th-grader ?
[1] – 11/15/2013 – Burzynski exposed in USA Today:
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/11/burzynski-exposed-in-usa-today/
[2] – 5/6/2013 – Critiquing "The Skeptic" Burzynski Critics: A Film Producer, A Cancer Doctor, And Their Critics (page 10):
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/critiquing-the-skeptic-burzynski-critics-a-film-producer-a-cancer-doctor-and-their-critics-page-10/
[3] – 5/7/2013 – Critiquing: Is Eric Merola issuing bogus DMCA takedown notices against critics of Stanislaw Burzynski?:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/critiquing-is-eric-merola-issuing-bogus-dmca-takedown-notices-against-critics-of-stanislaw-burzynski/
[4] – 8/3/2011 – Urine test may help predict prostate cancer risk:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/medical/health/medical/cancer/story/2011/08/Urine-test-may-help-predict-prostate-cancer-risk/49790014/1?fullsite=true
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/medical/health/medical/cancer/story/2011/08/Urine-test-may-help-predict-prostate-cancer-risk/49790014/1
[5] – 3/19/2008 – "Prostate cancer treatments' sexual, urinary side effects compared":
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-03-19-prostate-cancer_N.htm
[6] – 10/18/2013 – Monkeys 'talk in turns':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2013/10/131018_witn_monkeys.shtml
[7] – 8/2010
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-958.html
[8] – 7/30/2013
http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2013/pr0730_01.html
[9] – 8/28/2013 – Emory University
http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2013/08-28-13b.html
[10] – 5/24/1993
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/5241993-court-testimony-of-nicholas-petronas-md/
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Turkey Lurkey Thanksgiving Title
Traditionally, Thanksgiving is best known as the Holiday that the Detroit Lions get the "stuffing" knocked out of them
However, this year, it's time to tender the tainted twisted trophy of Thanksgiving Turkey-Lurkey to Detroit's toasted triumvirate treat of two-faced twerk-salad troll turpitude, and I have the temerity to tinker and tamper until I pay tribute with therapeutic levels of Thoreauness in response to GorskGeek's misinformation, disinformation, and MisDisInformation (Missed 'Dis Information)
Wednesday, 12/21/2005, Indianapolis, Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Company was treated to truthification, in connection with their illegal promotion (misbranding) of pharmaceutical drug EVISTA; (FDA approved for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women), in the:
a. prevention in risk of breast cancer
b. reduction in risk of breast cancer
Alleged in information, promoted drug as effective for reducing risk of breast cancer EVEN AFTER PROPOSED LABELING FOR THIS USE SPECIFICALLY REJECTED by FDA [1]
GorskGeek, being the breast cancer oncology specialist he claims to be, and so concerned about breast cancer patients that he is that "guy" who speaks out passionately about issues like the 10-year American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures, "Estimated Breast Cancer Deaths for Women", which reflect that in 2002, 39,600 (15%) women were estimated to die from breast cancer, and this year, 2013, the estimate is 39,620 (14%), which is 20 women MORE than 10-years ago, and who rails tirelessly about the ACS's "Estimated New Breast Cancer cases in Women", which 10-years ago was 203,500 (31%) in 2002, and now, in 2013 is 232,340 (29%), which is ONLY
28,840 MORE than 10-years ago [2]
Now THAT's progress !
GorskGeek, of course, must accomplish all this under his breath
But I'm sure you're wondering, dear reader, what was GorskGeek's outraged blog about this American pharmaceutical manufacturer coughing up $36 MILLION ?
Well, let me tell you … just as soon as I find it
GorskGeek was unable to bring himself to blog about Evista until exactly one year later, on 12/21/2006, and even then, he was "mum's the word" about the breast cancer claims [3]
Perhaps GorskGeek just "knew" that eventually Evista would finally be approved by the FDA for Eli Lilly's preventing or reducing risk of breast cancer claims on 9/13/2007, and who were those paper-pushing FDA apparatchiks to prevent Lilly from implementing their "Internal business plan" ? [4-9]
GorskGeek wouldn't want to damage his slim and non-existent chance of getting some Eli Lilly money for research, by blogging anything that might in any way be possibly construed as him saying anything negatory about the BIG Pharma teat he longs to suck off of
After all, Bob 'n' Weave Blaskiewicz (who sees every molehill as a mountain), did say about GorskGeek, 9/28/2013 [10]:
"But he is a, the thing is, the thing is, you thing you have to understand is Gorski, Gorski is a genuine expert, in matters re re regarding on oncology studies"
"I mean, he has a"
"He, He's able to convince people, he's able to convince people, on the strength of his record, to give him money to carry out research"
"People who know what they're talking about"
"To give him money to carry out his research"
"Right ?"
Yeah, right
Bobby 🙂
GorskGeek is hoping for a Happy Thanksgiving Golden Parachute; which is where he helps whistleblow about illegal BIG Pharma activity regarding some drug(s), which leaves him as the beneficiary of some funds like Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee and his $68,190,000 MILLION from the federal government and states share of settlement amounts:
$44,690,000 MILLION – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from federal share of settlement amount (1997 – 2001)
$23.5 MILLION – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from the states share of settlement amount (1997 – 2001)
Next, GorskGeek goes off on his fave autism prescription antipsychotic drug Risperdal, and the 11/4/2013, Monday, allegations concerning Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries, $2.2 BILLION + fine regarding J&J Subsidiary Janssen (1999 – 2005) actions [11]
[1] – 12/21/2005
EVISTA (FDA approved for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women)
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana-based company
12/21/2005, Wednesday
In connection with illegal promotion of pharmaceutical drug
Pleading guilty to criminal count of violating Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by misbranding drug
In addition to criminal plea
agreed to settle civil Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act liabilities by entering into consent decree of permanent injunction
Charged in criminal information filed with violation of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, following investigation by Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations
Plea agreement signed by Lilly and United States
Complaint for permanent injunction
Consent decree of permanent injunction signed by company and United States
Information alleges 1st year's sales of drug in U.S. were disappointing compared to original forecast
According to information
10/1998 – company reduced forecast of drug's 1st year's sales in U.S. from $401 million to $120 million
Internal business plan noted:
"Disappointing year versus original forecast."
Information alleges in order to expand sales of drug, Lilly sought to broaden market for drug by promoting it for unapproved uses
Information alleges strategic marketing plans and promotion touted drug as effective in preventing and reducing risk of diseases for which drug's labeling lacked adequate directions for use
According to information: Evista
1. brand team
2. sales representatives
promoted drug for:
c. reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease
Under provisions of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, drug misbranded when labeling didn't bear adequate directions for each of intended uses
Alleged in information, promoted drug as effective for reducing risk of breast cancer even after proposed labeling for this use specifically rejected by FDA
Information alleges executed illegal conduct using number of tactics, including:
1. One-on-one sales pitches by sales representatives promoting drug to physicians about off-label uses of drug
2. Sales representatives trained to prompt or bait questions by doctors in order to promote drug for unapproved uses
3. Encouraging sales representatives promoting drug to send unsolicited medical letters to promote drug for unapproved use to doctors on their sales routes
4. Organizing "market research summit' during which drug was discussed with physicians for unapproved uses, including reducing risk of breast cancer
a. Creating
b. distributing
to sales representatives "Evista Best Practices" videotape, in which sales representative states "Evista truly is the best drug for the prevention of all these diseases" referring to:
1). osteoporosis
2). breast cancer
3). cardiovascular disease
Complaint for permanent injunction alleges executed illegal conduct using number of tactics, including:
1. Training sales representatives to promote drug for prevention and reduction in risk of breast cancer by use of medical reprint in way that highlighted key results of drug and thereby promoted drug to doctors for unapproved use
2. Some sales representatives were instructed to hide disclosure page of reprint which noted:
a. "All of the authors were either employees or paid consultants of Eli Lilly at the time this article was written,"
b. "The prescribing information provides that "The effectiveness of [Evista] in reducing the risk of breast cancer has not yet been established.""
3. Organizing "consultant meetings" for physicians who prescribed drug during which unapproved uses of drug discussed
4. Calculating incremental new prescriptions for doctors who attended Evista advisory board meetings in 1998
5. advisory board meetings included discussion of unapproved uses for drug
6. By measuring and analyzing incremental new prescriptions for doctors who attended advisory board meetings, Lilly was using this intervention as tool to promote and sell drug
In addition to agreeing to plead guilty to criminal information and plea agreement signed by Lilly, settlement with United States includes following components:
(a) agreed to settle civil Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act liabilities by entering into consent decree of permanent injunction
(1). As part of consent decree, agreed to comply with terms of permanent injunction, which will require company to implement effective training and supervision of marketing and sales staff for drug, and ensure any future off-label marketing conduct is detected and corrected
(2). agreed to be permanently enjoined from directly or indirectly promoting drug for use in:
a. preventing or reducing risk of breast cancer
b. reducing risk of cardiovascular disease
c. or for any other unapproved use in manner that violates Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act unless and until FDA approves drug for additional use or uses
(b)	as part of consent decree, agreed to hire and utilize independent organization to conduct reviews to assist Lilly in assessing and evaluating Lilly's
1. systems
2. processes
3. policies
relating to promotion of drug and company's compliance with consent decree
FDA made following announcement to postmenopausal women who have taken drug for prevention or treatment of osteoporosis:
"No postmenopausal woman who has taken Evista for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis is affected by this action, as this matter today relates only to unapproved uses of Evista."
Defendant agreed to plead guilty to charge in information
Defendant agreed to resolve complaint for permanent injunction by agreeing to consent decree of permanent injunction
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/December/05_civ_685.html
[2] – 11/13/2013 – The War on Cancer (I don't think it means, what you think it says it means) #Winning?:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/httpcancer-orgacsgroupscontentepidemiologysurveilancedocumentsdocumentacspc-036845-pdf/
[3] – 12/21/2006 – On the messiness of evidence-based medicine
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/12/21/the-messiness-of-evidencebased-medicine/
[4] – 9/13/2007 – FDA Approval for Raloxifene Hydrochloride (Brand name(s): Evista®): Approved for breast cancer risk reduction:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/druginfo/fda-raloxifene-hydrochloride
[5] – 9/14/2007 – FDA Approves New Uses for Evista: Drug Reduces Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women:
http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/2007/ucm108981.htm
[6] – 9/17/2007 – Evista Approved for Reducing Breast Cancer Risk:
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048474.htm
[7] – 2007
Click to access 020815s018lbl.pdf
Click to access ucm088593.pdf
Click to access 022042lbl.pdf
[10] – 10/18/2013 – Deconstructing Dr. David H. (Orac) Gorski – September 28, 2013 "The Skeptics™" Burzynski discussion: By Bob Blaskiewicz – 2:19:51
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/deconstructing-dr-david-h-orac-gorski-september-28-2013-the-skeptics-burzynski-discussion-by-bob-blaskiewicz-21951/
[11] – 11/4/2013
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/November/13-ag-1170.html
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Critiquing: Eric Merola and Stanislaw Burzynski respond to the FDA findings and the USA TODAY story. Hilarity ensues
GorskiGeek starts off his soapbox stump speech:
"I was very pleased last Friday, very pleased indeed"
Of course he was
After all, it was as if USA TODAY was quoting directly from "The Skeptics™" fave Fahrvergnügen pharyngula and GorskGeeks's jacked July jabberwocky at "The Amazing Meeting" 2013 (TAM 2013 #TAM2013) Twitter Twaddle-fest
Given the normal subject matter of this blog, in which I face a seemingly unrelenting infiltration of pseudononsense pseudononscience and hackery into even the most hallowed halls of hacademic medicine, against which I seem to be fighting a mostly uphill battle, having an opportunity to see such an excellent non-deconstruction of science and medicine in a large bad mainstream news outlet like USA TODAY, GONE TOMORROW is rare and ungratifying
GorskGeek gambits:
"As you might recall, USA TODAY reporter Liz Szabo capped off a months-long investigation of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and his Burzynski Clinic with an excellent (and surprisingly long and detailed) report, complete with sidebars explaining why cancer experts don't think that Burzysnki's anecdotes are compelling evidence that his treatment, antineoplastons, has significant anticancer activity and a human interest story about patients whom Burzynski took to the cleaners"
My question ?
GorskGeek, how do you know it was a:
"months-long investigation" ?
The article does NOT indicate HOW LONG the USA TODAY "investigation" took
From this, I can only conclude, as I did after 1st reading the article, that based on the comments of Dr. David H. Gorski "Orac", that there must have been collusion between "The Skeptics™" and USA TODAY
Most of this, of course, is no news to my readers, as I've been writing about Dr. Burzynski on a fairly regular basis for over 8 months now
GorskGeek goofs:
"It's just amazing to see it all boiled down into three articles and ten short videos in the way that Szabo and USA TODAY did, to be read by millions, instead of the thousands who read this blog"
Thousands read his blog ?
Does he mean over the 2 year period he's been writing about Burzynski ?
GorskGeek Inspector Gadgets:
"Szabo also found out who the child was who died of hypernatremia due to antineoplastons in June 2012, a death that precipitated the partial clinical hold on Burzynski's bogus clinical trials, about which both Liz Szabo and I have quoted Burzynski's own lawyer, Richard Jaffe, from his memoir, first about Burzynski's "wastebasket" trial, CAN-1"
GorskGeek and USA TODAY both hashtag Failed to point out that a boy, the same age as Josia Cotto, survived a serum sodium (Na+) level of 234 mEq/L
If GorskGeek actually knew how to do real "science-based medicine" research, and if Liz Szabo and Jerry Mosemak had really actually done a "months-long investigation", maybe USA TODAY and "Orac" could have had enough time to have figured the above out, as well as the clinical trial Burzynski's attorney, Rick Jaffe, was referring to, was the CAN-1, which even you did NOT display any knowledge of in the July
TAMmany Twaddle [3], and your 11/15/2013 article [4]
Naturally, upon reading Liz Szabo's " story," I wondered how long it would be before there would be a response from GorskGeek or his minions
Both responses contain the same sorts of tropes, misinformation, and pseudononscience that I've come to expect from GorskGeek [1-2+4]
USA TODAY is biased and in the pocket of "The Skeptics™"
It was a "Shite Muslim Militia" piece
GorskGeek dreamsicles:
"I've deconstructed these, and many more, of Merola's nonsense over the last two years"
"Odd how @BurzynskiMovie pretends I haven't deconstructed his "evidence" in depth before"?
GorskGeek is so much a monumental myopic Mythomaniac
GorskGeek all you did was "cherry-pick" what you wanted to blather about, and selectively ignored everything else
What actually surprised me was the viscousness of the counterhackattack
For example, in counterhackattacking Eric Merola's letter to Liz Szabo, GorskGeek tries unsuccessfully to claim that Merola actually hopes that her child will get cancer, so that Burzynski supporters can gloat about it and Szabo will have to apologize to her children for her "perfidy" (in GorskGeek's eyes, at least):
GorskGeek gesticulates:
"He denies that he hopes Szabo's children will develop brain cancer, but then gloats gleefully over the possibility that she would have to face them after having—again in his mind—"helped to destroy the only thing that could have helped" them"
In the dictionary, under the definition of "spin bowel movement (SBM)," there should be a picture of "Dr." (and I use that term very "loosely") David Gorski
GorskGeek would have fit in holistically as the propagandist for Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.
Then, just when I thought GorskGeek couldn't go any lower, he does, this time in his longer response on his blog
"Eric Merola and Stanislaw Burzynski respond to the FDA findings and the USA TODAY story. Hilarity ensues"
Obviously, to "Orac" asking GorskGeek to follow normal rules regulating medical ethics and human subject protections in critical trolls' blog trials is exactly like murdering millions of people's brain cells, carrying out horrible medical experimentation on common sense and sensibility, making untold numbers of Africans, slaves to his stupendousmess, and harassing, gratuitously, families of soldiers "killed" by his word salad battle
Didn't anyone ever teach GorskGeek that you need to build up to that sort of climax ?
Of course, the big difference between Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, unfortunately, is that compared to "Orac," he had talent, and David GorskGeek does NOT
GorskGeek is a hack and is only funny by accident because he has no filters that tell him when he's going way under the top
To him, Burzynski is an infidel
I do not share his belief, but, even worse, I have the temerity to criticize his god "Orac," or, to mix metaphors shamelessly, to point out that GorskGeek has no clothes
Since I've dealt with so many of the tropes included in GorskGeek's not-so-little rant, I hardly see the need to repeat myself
However, as a breast cancer surgeon's skeptic, I find one of GorskGeek's lies to be as despicable, or perhaps more so, than his ad hominem comparisons
GorskGeek, the Hitler of hipocracy, came up with this hit parade of paranoia and "conspiracy theory":
"I don't know what sort of attacks on the UK bloggers who produce the bulk of the skeptical blog posts about Burzynski are coming in Burzynski II, but when it comes to me no doubt Merola is referring to this bit of yellow journalism in 2010 from an antivaccine propagandist named Jake Crosby, entitled David Gorski's Financial Pharma Ties: What He Didn't Tell You" [5]
GorskGeek then ad hocs ad nauseum about ad hominem fallacy
"In this fallacy, rather than addressing the actual evidence and science that demonstrate their favorite brand of woo to be nothing more than fairy dust, the idea is to preemptively attack and discredit the person"
"The ad hominem is not just insults or concluding that someone is ignorant because, well, they say ignorant things and make stupid arguments (in which case calling someone stupid or ignorant might just be drawing a valid, albeit impolitic, conclusion from observations of that person's behavior), but rather arguing or insinuating that you shouldn't accept someone's arguments not because their arguments are weak but because they have this personal characteristic or that or belong to this group or that" [6]
GorskGeek, the huckster of hackery laments that "The Skeptics™" are subject to character assassination, NOT because of their "science-based medicine", but, alas, for being biased, lying, cowards
So, he must justify that as to why he then ad hominems those who he harangues:
"In Burzynski The Movie, Dr. Whitaker has his nose embedded so far up Dr. Burzynski's rectum that Dr. Burzynski wouldn't need a colonoscopy if Merola just strapped a light to Dr. Whitaker's face" [7]
"In the meantime, I realized that seeing Josh Duhamel stick his proboscis firmly up Burzynski's posterior was not enough to explain the disturbance that I was feeling" [8]
GorskiGeek seems to have an unhealthy infatuation with ASS
My suppositorsition is that GorskiGeek, the highfalutin' He-Man of hypocrisy, does wax on, wax off, waxes phonetic about ASS, because he is the apex of ASSmuchness
In essence, he denies the toxicity of water in terms I've never seen anyone try to downplay before:
Water… is toxic?
This was perhaps the most stunningly malicious use of emotion to manipulate the reader in any of the propaganda pieces against H2O in history
GorskGeek claims:
"Josia, as readers of Liz Szabo's report will know, was the six year old boy with an inoperable brain tumor who died of hypernatremia (elevated sodium levels in the blood) as a result of Burzynski's therapy"
GorskGeek gassticulates:
"As I pointed out last Friday and Szabo reported in her story, before his death Josia's serum sodium was measured at 205 mEq/L, way above the normal range of 136-145 mEq/L and well into the lethal range"
"As I pointed out then, I've never seen a sodium level anywhere near that high"
"During my residency, the highest I recall ever seeing was maybe around 180 mEq/L"
As I already pointed out previously in this article:
GorskGeek claims that Josia died of hypernatremia (elevated sodium levels in the blood) as a result of Burzynski's therapy
GorskGeek does NOT provide ANY citation(s), reference(s), and / or link(s) in support of his claim, and does NOT provide a copy of the autopsy
GorskGeek's brain cells must be "sleeping in excess", hence the symptoms of lethargy progressing ignorance of adverse events which approach critical black hole levels
Of course, none of this is new information
GorskGeek hacks:
"I also note that one of Burzynski's most famous patients, Hannah Bradley, who with her partner Pete Cohen proclaims herself cured of her brain cancer, thanks to Burzynski, suffered some pretty serious toxicities from antineoplastons herself, including high fevers to 103.9° F, shaking chills, and severe rashes"
"Pete even documented how badly Hannah reacted to antineoplastons in his YouTube documentary Hannah's Anecdote"
GorskGeek flummoxes in that he erred to elucidate that the "rash" which Hannah
experienced, even entailed epilepsy anti-seizure medication [4]
GorskGeek gambols the gabroni gambit by giving nothing but glib reasons for his genetically challenged gestation of Hannah's vlogs after gears up for Great Britain
Yes, GorskGeek is gabless about Hannah's progress in the G.B. as a germinating gerbil, as far as flu or fever, perhaps fearing his failure to feature any fact-checking facilitation a fanboy of Fanectdotes should fittingly fictionalize
The rest of GorskGeek's rant reads like a greatest hits compilation from cancer hacks
You get the picture
That's the whack-n-hack counterhackfensive trying to shore up Liz Szabo's sorry article
GorskGeek blowshard and long about the FDA Form 483′s findings, but does NOT heed his massive failure to be persuaded that:
"In Burzynski's defense, Jaffe notes that inspection reports represent preliminary findings"
"The FDA has not yet issued final conclusions"
Who would doubt that if GorskGeek were to blog about Burzynski's 1997 criminal trial, that he would NOT list each and every one of the 34 counts of mail fraud, 40 counts of violating Food and Drug Administration regulations, and the 1 contempt-of-court charge; all "allegations", which netted the U.S. Gubment absolutely NOTHING ? [9]
GorskGeek idolizes the Burzynski Research Institute (BRI) IRB, because of Burzynski's scientific publications, which indicate:
2003 – Membership of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) was in agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [10]
3/2004 – Membership of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) was in agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [10]
2004 – Membership of Institutional Review Board (IRB) was in compliance with FDA guidelines [10]
GorskGeek then does a piss-poor "slight of hand job", jerking the reader off about Pseudoprogression, pseudoresponse, so-called pseudoprogression, and "One phenomena, termed Pseudo-Progression (psPD)"
GorskGeek falls flat face first for failing to show this phenomenon has factually happened [11]
GorskiGeek, looks like back to the drawerin' board for you !
[1] – 11/18/2013 – Eric Merola and Stanislaw Burzynski respond to the FDA findings and the USA TODAY story. Hilarity ensues:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/11/18/eric-merola-and-stanislaw-burzynski-respond-to-the-fda-findings-and-the-usa-today-story-hilarity-ensues/
[2] – 11/18/2013 – The Burzynski Empire strikes
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-burzynski-empire-strikes-back/
[3] – 11/11/2013 – "The Amazing Meeting" (I don't think it means, what you think it says it means): 2 Intellectually and Ethically Challenged Individuals, Twaddle at TAM 2013:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/www-amazingmeeting-com-www-randi-org-lanyrd-com2013tam-forums-randi-orgforumdisplay-php/
[4] – 11/19/2013 – Critiquing: Stanislaw Burzynski in USA Today: Abuse of clinical trials and patients versus the ineffectiveness of the FDA and Texas Medical Board (Hyperactivity versus Hypernatremia, and Hannah Bradley):
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/httpscienceblogs-cominsolence20131115stanislaw-burzynski-in-usa-today-abuse-of-clinical-trials-and-patients-versus-the-ineffectiveness-of-the-fda-and-texas-medical-board-2/
[5] – 2/18/2013 – Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's cancer "success" stories:
[6] – 6/14/2010 – In which Dr. Gorski once again finds himself a target of the "pharma shill" gambit
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-which-i-am-once-again-in-the-crosshairs-of-age-of-autisms-pharma-shill-machine-gun/
[7] – 11/29/2011 – Burzynski The Movie: Is Stanislaw Burzynski a pioneering cancer researcher or a quack?:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/29/burzynski-the-movie-subtle-its-not/
[8] – 2/18/2013 – As Josh Duhamel shills for the Burzynski Clinic, Eric Merola prepares to carpet bomb the blogosphere with nonsense:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/02/18/as-josh-duhamel-shills-for-the-burzynski-clinic-eric-merola-prepares-to-carpet-bomb-the-blogosphere-with-nonsense/
[9] – 9/25/2013 – Critiquing: National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. – NCAHF News: JURY NULLIFICATION THWARTS BURZYNSKI CONVICTION:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/critiquing-national-council-against-health-fraud-inc-ncahf-news-jury-nullification-thwarts-burzynski-conviction/
[10] – 7/2/2013 – Burzynski: Institutional Review Board (IRB):
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/burzynski-institutional-review-board-irb/
[11] – 11/20/2013 – Critiquing: Stanislaw Burzynski in USA Today: Abuse of clinical trials and patients versus the ineffectiveness of the FDA and Texas Medical Board (swell inflammation phenomenon):
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Critiquing: Stanislaw Burzynski in USA Today: Abuse of clinical trials and patients versus the ineffectiveness of the FDA and Texas Medical Board (Josia Cotto)
David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS "Check My Facts" Hack "Orac", finally ends his 11/15/2013 diatribe of Dr. Burzynski by USA TODAY's Liz Szabo, Michael Stravato, Jerry Mosemak, and Robert Hanashiro, with:
"The concluding section of the story tells us why we need to try:"
"No one told Josia's parents about any of this"
"Not Burzynski"
"Not the FDA"
"Jose and Niasia Cotto had no idea that their son's death prompted an investigation by the FDA, until they were contacted by USA TODAY"
"The Cottos had long believed that Burzynski could have cured their son if only they had taken Josia to see him first, before giving him radiation and chemotherapy"
"They had even hoped to launch a non-profit, A Life for Josia Foundation, to help other children with cancer gain access to Burzynski's treatment"
"Now, they don't know what to think"
So what good did Gorski do here, if any ?
1. He offers no opinion as to if he thinks Burzynski should have been responsible for advising Jose and Niasia Cotto that Josia Cotto's death prompted an investigation by the FDA
2. He offers no opinion as to if he thinks the FDA should have been responsible for advising Jose and Niasia Cotto that Josia Cotto's death prompted an investigation
3. He offers no opinion as to if he thinks Burzynski could have cured Jose and Niasia Cotto's son, Josia Cotto's if only they had been able to take Josia to Burzynski first
4. He offers no opinion as to what he thinks about the FDA requiring Josia Cotto to receive radiation and chemotherapy, and them failing Josia, before he was able to utilize antineoplaston therapy
Gorski might as well NOT even be here if all he's going to do is repost the same thing USA TODAY published, yet "say" absolutely NOTHING
Personally, I think it's has to do with what was said during the July TAM 2013 twaddle, when the female panelist made a comment about "people without BALLS"
Since I have mine, here's what I think:
1. If there was a moral or legal duty to advise Jose and Niasia Cotto that the passing of Josia prompted an investigation by the FDA, then it was the FDA's responsibility
2. I think that if the FDA was NOT requiring patients like Josia Cotto to 1st be failed by conventional treatments like surgery, radiation, and / or chemotherapy, there is a chance that Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy could be more effective because of:
What USA TODAY, Liz Szabo, Michael Stravato, Jerry Mosemak, and Robert Hanashiro DID NOT TELL YOU ABOUT:
12/2002 Burzynski interview [3]
1. Treatment require strong commitment from patients as must be infused with Antineoplastons for many weeks or months ?
2. Perhaps 15% of patients taking intravenous infusions of Antineoplastons
3. Patients who have most advanced type of cancer will require heavy dosages
4. When give large dosages intravenously, have to watch fluid balance…and electrolyte balance
5. Intravenous infusion can deliver equivalent of 3,000 tablets a day
ORAL – CAPSULES OR TABLETS
1. Most patients taking oral formulations
2. Capsules or tablets
3. Limitation of how much medicine can take by mouth
4. 50 or 60 tablets a day pretty much all you can take by mouth
5. When give orally, see practically no side effects at all
6. Patients may develop skin rash, which may last for day or two
7. Don't see any delayed toxicity once treatment stops
8. Everything practically goes back to normal within day or two
9. Doesn't even come close to adverse reactions that experience with chemotherapy
FDA requirements
1. Most patients who come to us have received prior heavy radiation therapy, or chemotherapy
2. Usually die from complications from these treatments
3. Those who survive longest are patients who previously did not receive radiation therapy or chemotherapy
4. Longest survivor in this category is now reaching 15 years from time of diagnosis; and she's in perfect health
12/10/1997 [4]
1. In addition to original family of Antineoplaston compounds
(the "Parental Generation")
2. Development of 2nd generation of Antineoplastons
In cell culture experiments 2nd generation Antineoplastons developed have been shown to be at least
Thousand times more potent then
Parental Generation
3. 3rd generation structurally altered Antineoplaston believe will exhibit markedly improved anticancer activity in human cancer cell lines resistant to
12/2000 Egypt antineoplaston study [5]
4 new piperidinedione A10 analogs synthesized and tested on human breast cancer cell line against prototype A10 and anti cancer drug tamoxifen and DNA binding capacity of compounds evaluated against A10
"3B" and "3D" were several-fold more potent antiproliferative agents than A10 and tamoxifen and had significantly higher capacity to bind DNA than A10
10/1/2001 Egypt antineoplaston study [5]
Structural characterization of new antineoplaston (ANP) representatives
Combination heat with pH modification had virtually no effect on obtained peaks, attesting to stability and purity of compounds
One had superior affinity to DNA than
prototype ANP-A10
So, what do we know from this interview with Burzynski from over a decade ago, his 12/10/1997 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing and the antineoplaston research from Egypt ?
1. Oral (capsule and tablets): PRACTICALLY NO SIDE EFFECTS at all
3. 2nd generation of Antineoplastons have been shown to be at least a THOUSAND TIMES MORE POTENT then Parental Generation
4. 3rd generation structurally altered Antineoplaston believe will exhibit markedly improved anticancer activity in human cancer cell lines resistant to Parental Generation
5. The research from Egypt shows promising results for binding to DNA
I doubt Dr. Gorski will be blogging about the above, anytime soon, as it
DOES NOT FIT HIS NARRATIVE
2000 – Thomas Navarro [3]
What happened to Donna and Jim Navarro when they chose Burzynski's treatment over orthodox treatments ?
4 year old Thomas Navarro diagnosed with medulloblastoma
Operated on
Tumor removed
Scheduled for radiation therapy
Parents knew he'd be damaged by radiation therapy
Nobody his age survives this type of tumor anyway after radiation therapy
Why they decided to go to Burzynski Clinic
Could NOT treat him because FDA requires failure of radiation therapy for such patients
Parents decided NOT to take any treatment
Burzynski asked FDA several times to allow administration of Antineoplastons, because already had successful treatments for some other children without any prior radiation
5/2001 – developed numerous tumors
Burzynski suggested to parents they should go for at least chemotherapy
Went for chemotherapy to one of best centers in the country, Beth Israel Hospital in New York
Chemotherapy was successful, but he almost died from it
Severly affected his bone marrow
Phone call from Thomas's father telling Burzynski doctors thinking they won't do anything else for him and Thomas will die within a week because of severe suppression of bone marrow
Burzynski encouraged father to do whatever possible because such patients may turn around
He turned around
About month or two later developed 15 tumors in brain and spinal cord
When close to death, nothing available, FDA called and allowed Burzynski to treat Thomas
Treated Thomas
Survived 6 months
Tumors had substantially decreased
11/2001 – ultimately died from pneumonia
Perhaps professor and chairman of oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Jan Buckner, professor and head of the division of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, Arthur Caplan, chair of the Children's Oncology Group, an NCI-supported research network that conducts clinical trials in pediatric cancer, pediatric oncologist and professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Peter Adamson, David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, a/k/a GorskGeek, and "Orac", ALL think that the 15 tumors Thomas Navarro had in his brain and spinal cord, which had substantially decreased under Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy, were because of Pseudoprogression a/k/a Pseudo-Progression (psPD) and / or pseudoresponse, caused by
chemotherapy ?
Is this what they mean by:
"In reality, the tumor was just returning to its previous size" ?
Dustin Kunnari [3]
At 2 ½ years old, Dustin Kunnari had brain surgery
Surgery removed only 75% of tumor
Dustin's parents, Mariann and Jack, were told Dustin would only live 6 months
Chemotherapy and radiation may extend life slightly, but at very high cost in quality of life with very serious side effects
Mariann and Jack decided to look into alternatives
Found out about Antineoplastons
After only 6 weeks of intravenous treatment, MRI showed he was cancer free
One year later another tumor appeared on MRI
By this time Dr. Burzynski had developed more concentrated form of Antineoplastons
After 5 months tumor was gone
remained cancer free ever since
Age 7 – taken off Antineoplastons
To further complicate matters, oncologist kept threatening parents with a court proceeding to take Dustin away and force him to take Chemotherapy/Radiation treatment
This continued for a year, even after success with Antineoplastons
Age 12 at time of 12/2002 interview
Perhaps professor and chairman of oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Jan Buckner, professor and head of the division of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, Arthur Caplan, chair of the Children's Oncology Group, an NCI-supported research network that conducts clinical trials in pediatric cancer, pediatric oncologist and professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Peter Adamson, David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, a/k/a GorskGeek, and "Orac", ALL think that the tumor David Kunnari had, which disappeared under Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy, were because of Pseudoprogression a/k/a Pseudo-Progression (psPD) and / or pseudoresponse, caused by
surgery ?
Paul Leverett [3]
5/1999 – diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme grade 4 brain stem tumor
Prognosis was would probably be dead before end of 1999
Orthodox medicine gave him no hope of survival
Given maximum amount of radiation was capable of receiving
Slowed tumors growth slightly, but didn't alter prospects for survival at all
After research on Internet learned about Dr. Burzynski's Antineoplastons
9/1999 – began taking Antineoplastons intravenously, administered by wife Jennie
After 6 weeks tumor had grown by only 2 %, Glioblastoma's normally double in size every 2 weeks
12/2000 – PET scan confirmed complete remission
Stayed on Antineoplastonsuntil 8/2001 to ensure tumor wouldn't reoccur
Just under 20% tumor necrosis remaining in brain stem, which is probably scar tissue
Oncologist (at MD Anderson, Houston) initially wanted to show scan's to his hospitals (MD Anderson) tumor review board
for whaever reason, refused further contact and didn't go ahead with it
Perhaps professor and chairman of oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Jan Buckner, professor and head of the division of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, Arthur Caplan, chair of the Children's Oncology Group, an NCI-supported research network that conducts clinical trials in pediatric cancer, pediatric oncologist and professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Peter Adamson, David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, a/k/a GorskGeek, and "Orac", ALL think that the glioblastoma multiforme grade 4 brain stem tumor Paul Leverett had, which disappeared under Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy, were because of Pseudoprogression a/k/a Pseudo-Progression (psPD) and / or pseudoresponse, caused by radiation ?
Crystin Schiff [3]
Ric and Paula Schiff about torture their daughter Crystin had to endure during chemotherapy/radiation treatment
Diagnosed with perhaps most malignant tumor known, rhabdoid tumor of the brain
Historically, there was no case of such a tumor ever having long response to chemotherapy or radiation therapy
Received extremely heavy doses of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, because nobody expected she would live longer than year or so
Was terribly damaged with this
Responded very well to Antineoplastons
Died from pneumonia
Immune system was wiped out, so when she aspirated some food, she died from it
Autopsy revealed didn't have any sign of malignancy
Particularly despicable story, because when Ric Schiff asked Dr. Michael Prados, then head of neuro-oncology at University of California at San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), if he knew of any other treatment besides chemotherapy/radiation for Crystin's
brain tumor, Prados replied in the negative
But a few years before, he had sent you 14 letters documenting effectiveness of Antineoplastons on Jeff Keller, another patient with brain cancer
Yes, Jeff Keller had extremely malignant brain tumor
had high-grade glioma of the brain; failed radiation therapy and additional treatments
responded extremely well to our treatment
was one of patients whose case was presented to NCI
there was no doubt about his response
Dr. Prados knew about it
If he was dealing with hopeless tumor like Crystin Schiff, why didn't he call us?
Do you know why Prados did not tell them about Keller's success with your treatment?
It's hard for me to tell
It happens that Dr. Prados and Dr. Friedman, who became boss of FDA, came from same medical school
they work closely together, and perhaps there is something to do with general action against us
It would be inconvenient for Dr. Prados to say that treatment works if FDA was trying to get rid of us and when his friend was Commissioner of FDA at that time
Perhaps that's the connection….
Perhaps professor and chairman of oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Jan Buckner, professor and head of the division of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, Arthur Caplan, chair of the Children's Oncology Group, an NCI-supported research network that conducts clinical trials in pediatric cancer, pediatric oncologist and professor of pediatrics and pharmacology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Peter Adamson, David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, a/k/a GorskGeek, and "Orac", ALL think that the rhabdoid tumor of the brain Crystin Schiff had, which disappeared under Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy, were because of Pseudoprogression a/k/a Pseudo-Progression (psPD) and / or pseudoresponse, caused by chemo and radiation ?
[1] – 11/15/2013 – Stanislaw Burzynski in USA Today: Abuse of clinical trials and patients versus the ineffectiveness of the FDA and Texas Medical Board (Getting Worse is Getting Better):
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/11/15/stanislaw-burzynski-in-usa-today-abuse-of-clinical-trials-and-patients-versus-the-ineffectiveness-of-the-fda-and-texas-medical-board/
[3] – 12/2012 – Interview with Dr. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry (12/2002):
[4] – 8/29/2013 – Burzynski Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Links:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/burzynski-securities-and-exchange-commission-sec-links/
[5] – 8/13/2013 – Does David H. "Orac" Gorski, M.D., Ph.D, really CARE about Breast Cancer patients?:
http://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/does-david-h-orac-gorski-m-d-ph-d-really-care-about-breast-cancer-patients/
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Interview with Dr. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry (12/2002)
Interview with Dr. Burzynski (M.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry)
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This telephone interview with Dr. Burzynski was held in December 2002. The purpose of the interview is to inform people about Dr. Burzynski's cancer treatment, Antineoplastons. It will be circulated for free on the Internet. I have no affiliations with Dr. Burzynski either personally or professionally.
Hello Dr. Burzynski. I would like to thank you for taking the time to inform people about your cancer treatment Antineoplastons, and your experiences in the area of cancer over the last 25 years.
Is it true that you were the youngest person in Poland in the 20th century to earn two advanced degrees, an M.D. (Medical Doctor) and Ph.D. in biochemistry at only 24?
I'm not sure if I was the youngest, I was among the youngest. In Poland, its 15 years average (Gavin. For a Ph.D.) after you receive an M.D.
What motivated you to come to the United States? When did you arrive here?
Well basically freedom. You see, I could easily stay in Poland. I was a prominent student, one of the best they ever had in medical school and certainly if I would become a member of the Communist Party I would accomplish a lot in Poland. But I didn't want to be a Communist and after I declared, "forget it, I'm not going to be a Communist", they persecuted me. So, practically, it would not be possible for me to do any research in Poland. I arrived in the United States on the 4th of September 1970.
You began working at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston?
I was not employed for 6 weeks, then I got the appointment at Baylor in the position of research assistant. A couple of years later I became Assistant Professor.
I have read that your cancer research was motivated by your observation of a cancer patient in Poland that was missing a particular peptide in their blood, is this correct?
Well Yes. First I discovered some peptide fractions in blood and then I was trying to determine their significance. This means that I was screening the blood samples from people who suffer from various illnesses, among them cancer patients. I found some remarkable changes in concentration of these Peptides in cancer patients. Basically there was a great deficiency of these Peptide fractions in the blood of cancer patients.
What are peptides and how did your research develop from there to developing Antineoplastons?
Peptides are chains of Amino Acids, so if you put together 2 Amino Acids, you have a Peptide.
You have said, "Cancer is really a disease of cells that are not programmed correctly. Antineoplastons simply reprogram them so that they behave normally again."
They do, but we are not really interested in making normal cells out of cancer cells. What we are interested in is correcting one basic difference between cancer cells and normal cells, and this is the mortality of normal cells and the immortality of cancer cells. Cancer cells are immortal. And if you change them into mortal cells again they will die and the tumor will disappear.
I read a humorous part in Daniel Haley's chapter about you in his book, "Politics in Medicine." He says that initially you derived Antineoplastons from your friends blood, but had to change because your friends stopped coming around, is that correct?
Certainly it was difficult to obtain a lot of blood for the research. It was a necessity to look for a source that is widely available. I realized from the very beginning that once I use urine, my critics will use this against me; try to just smear me, "That's the doctor who is using urine to treat cancer." But there was no other way to do it.
There are plenty of ignorant remarks about your treatment because it used to be derived from human urine. The process you use now does not involve collecting human urine. Please describe the complete process you use.
Ever since 1980, we are using synthetic analogues of Antineoplastons, made in a state-of-the art biomedical manufacturing facility. These have nothing to do with urine or blood.
Would you describe Antineoplastons as natural?
They are natural of course, they exist in our body.
Your treatment does require a strong commitment from your patients as they must be infused with Antineoplastons for many weeks or months, is that correct?
But most of our patients are taking oral formulations. I would say that perhaps 15% of our patients are taking intravenous infusions of Antineoplastons; the rest take capsules or tablets.
The patients who have the most advanced type of cancer will require heavy dosages. There is a limitation of how much medicine you can take by mouth. Fifty or sixty tablets a day, that's pretty much all you can take by mouth. But if you give intravenous infusion you can deliver the equivalent of 3,000 tablets a day.
You went into private practice in 1977. How was this funded?
Well, I started private practice in 1973. It was not necessary for me to have any funding, because I joined with other physicians.
Is it true that Dr. Mask at a hospital in Jacksboro, Texas ran your first human clinical trial? What types of cancers did you treat? What were the results of these trials?
I would not call it a clinical trial, because only two patients received initial treatment. They were very advanced, close to death and unfortunately, both of them died. But these cases were not lost because we found we can administer Antineoplastons without having bad side effects.
What is the general side effect experienced by your patients when using Antineoplastons? Does it damage the immune system as chemotherapy does?
We are not talking about one medicine; we tried 12 different pharmaceutical formulations. Basically it depends what formulation we use, but when we give them orally, we see practically no side effects at all. Patients may develop skin rash, which may last for a day or two.
But, when we give large dosages intravenously, we have to watch fluid balance…and electrolyte balance. We don't see any delayed toxicity once the treatment stops. Everything practically goes back to normal within say a day or two. It does not even come close to the adverse reactions that you experience with chemotherapy.
What is the cost today for a patient using your treatment in a pill form and do insurance companies pay for it? *
Well basically, we do not charge patients for medicines, Antineoplastons are given free of charge. What we are charging for are supplies, and we are charging for standard services such as office visits, nursing services, Lab tests, consultation, evaluation etc. And these services are priced the same way as the average medical services, and they are covered by the insurance.
*(Gavin. Insurance companies will rarely pay for Antineoplastons, which is considered an experimental treatment. It also depends on the type of insurance plan someone may be on.)
So if a patient were using the pills, what would it normally cost per month.
About $2,000 a month.
Antineoplastons is most effective against brain cancer, is that correct?
Well, it's not really correct. Because brain tumors are very difficult to treat, we concentrate our efforts on the toughest type of cancers. Out of our clinical trials, we have eight that came to the final point, which means they proved that there is some efficacy, and six of these are in various types of brain tumors. But there is another clinical trial, which deals with advanced colon cancer, which also proved efficacy and another one with liver cancer. But we still need to wait a little longer to have a larger number of patients treated and then statistically find out if this is going to work.
Basically the treatment works when we have involvement of the gene, which can be activated by Antineoplastons, and such genes, like gene p 53, are involved in 50% of all cancers. The treatment turns on gene p 53. So it has more to do with what kind of gene the patient has in his cancer cell, rather than the type of cancer.
Is there a special diet to follow when using your treatment?
Yes, since we are expecting there may be some changes in minerals, we usually emphasize a diet that is relatively low in sodium. We treat every patient individually. Every patient has a consultation with a dietary expert who tries to individualize his diet
Is your treatment being used in any other countries?
Yes, we have people coming to us from all over the world. I think we can probably count easily 70 to a 100 countries from which people are coming. But the main effort is now in Japan, outside the US. In Japan there are 2 clinical trials being conducted by Japanese doctors. Also, a group of doctors in Mexico obtained approval from the FDA and Mexican government to do clinical trials.
Now I have several related questions about brain cancer in children.
Dustin Kunnari and Dr. Burzynski. Dustin is one of Dr. Burzynski's great success stories.
Dustin had brain surgery at 2 ½ years old. The surgery removed only 75% of the tumor.
Dustin's parents, Mariann and Jack, were told that Dustin would only live for 6 months. Chemotherapy and radiation may extend Dustin's life slightly, but at a very high cost in quality of life with very serious side effects.
Mariann and Jack decided to look into alternatives. They found out about Antineoplastons and after only 6 weeks of intravenous treatment, Dustin's MRI showed he was cancer free.
One year later another tumor appeared on the MRI. By this time Dr. Burzynski had developed a more concentrated form of Antineoplastons. After 5 months the tumor was gone. Dustin has remained cancer free ever since and was taken off Antineoplastons when he was 7. Dustin is 12 today.
About how many children suffer from brain cancer in the US each year?
The statistics are available for 1999. The new cases of brain tumors in children were counted as 2,200. Now around 3,000, I would say.
Approximately what percentage of children is still alive after 5 years using orthodox treatments for brain cancer?
It depends on the type of tumor and it's location, some of the toughest are those that are located in the brain stem. Up to 5 years, you have practically no survival when you use the best treatment available, which is radiation therapy. Chemotherapy usually doesn't work for such patients. After 2 years, 7 % survival. After 5 years, practically none.
Dustin, after brain surgery.
To further complicate matters, Dustin's oncologist kept threatening his parents with a court proceeding to take Dustin away and force him to take Chemotherapy/Radiation treatment.
This continued for a year, even after Dustin's success with Antineoplastons.
Please see the Burzynski Patients web site for more information,
http:// http://www.burzynskipatientgroup.org
You may also e-mail Mary Jo Siegel, the lady who runs the web site. Mary is also a cancer survivor using Antineoplastons.
maryjo@siegel.net
Is it correct to say you have had very good results when treating brain cancer in children?
Yes we have. I gave you the example of the toughest, which is located in the brain stem. We get about 40% survival rates after two years. After 5 years at the moment we have about 20% survival rate. The reason is that most of the patients who come to us, have received prior heavy radiation therapy, or chemotherapy. They usually die from complications from these treatments. Those who survive the longest are patients who previously did not receive radiation therapy or chemotherapy. The longest survivor in this category is now reaching 15 years from the time of diagnosis; and she's in perfect health.
With the more common variety, which is aciotoma located outside the brain stem, we get much, much better. We have 75% of patients who are objectively responding to the treatment. This means that the tumor will disappear completely or will be reduced by more than 50%.
This is another strong point. It's extremely important. Children are usually damaged for life after radiation therapy, when we can avoid it and bring them back to life.
What criteria must parents of children with brain cancer meet before being able to have their children treated by you?
Well, practically all of these brain tumors must be inoperable. This means that it's not possible to remove them with surgery. Except for one category, they should have advanced disease. The tumor should have the size of more than 5 mm in diameter and be located in a place that cannot be operated upon.
There is one category of these tumors, medulloblastoma, where the FDA requires that the patients would receive prior standard treatment and fail before we can accept them. In the rest of these children we can accept them without failure of prior treatment.
Roy , a more recent patient of Dr. Burzynski's.
Let us talk a little about some of your most successful stories using Antineoplastons with children. Probably the most remarkable case is that of Tori Moreno . In August 1998 Tori was diagnosed with a stage 4 brainstem glioma that was inoperable. Her parents were told she would die in a few days or at the most, a few weeks. When did you start treating her?
Tori had Stage 4 brain stem glioma. The tumor was too risky for surgery. She was diagnosed shortly after her birth. The tumor was very large, about 3 inches in the largest diameter and located in the brain stem. Her parents consulted the best centers in the country and they were told there was nothing to be done. So finally she was brought to us, when she was about 3 ½ months old. This was in October 5 years ago. She was in such condition that we were afraid that she might die at any time. Fortunately she responded, and about 5 months later we determined that she obtained a complete response, which means complete disappearance of active tumor by
MRI criteria. She is a perfectly healthy child and tumor free. She still takes small dosages of capsules of Antineoplastons, but we will discontinue this shortly.
Tori Moreno 9.28.98. Temporarily enlarged due to taking Decadron.
Tori's parents were told there was nothing that could be done for her and she would be dead in a few weeks.
Tori is alive and well today thanks to Antineoplastons. See photo below.
At the end of this interview, there is a short interview with Kim Moreno, Tori's mother.
Kim Moreno has set-up a Yahoo e-mail account to answer peoples cancer related questions.
kimmoreno5@yahoo.com
And today she is over 5 years old?
Yes, she's 5 years old and living a pretty much normal life.
Tori 22.10.02. A perfectly healthy child. Orthodox treatment consists of high does of radiation therapy and possibly toxic chemotherapy as well. Most of the children are dead in a few years. The ones that survive suffer from permanent retardation, along with other serious side effects from the radiation.
Please do not forget about the interview with Kim Moreno, Tori's mother, at the end of this interview.
But mainstream medicine has been trying to kill the cancer cell using chemotherapy and radiation, is that correct?
That's right, yes.
Chemotherapy and radiation cannot differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells?
They can differentiate to some point, but basically, this difference is very small, so ultimately, the normal cells will be killed.
Is that why they have such a terrible effect on the immune system?
That's right, not only the immune system, but also many other systems in the body. Practically, the treatment is destroying healthy parts of the body.
Chemotherapy and radiation also cause cancer, don't they?
Yes. For instance right now we see a lot of patients who in childhood were successfully treated for leukemia or for Hodgkin's disease. Then they develop cancer that is practically incurable, like lung cancer, breast cancers; I even encountered a patient in my practice that developed three different types of cancers, and was only 28 years of age. First she was treated for Hodgkin's Disease, then she developed bone cancer in the places which were radiated for Hodgkin's Disease, and then she developed breast cancer after that; it's really horrible. So there is increased incidence of secondary cancers in patients who were treated previously with chemotherapy and radiation.
Shontelle Huron. In remission for several years after using Antineoplastons.
You may also e-mail Mary Jo Siegel, the lady who runs the web site. Mary is also a cancer survivor using Antineoplastons. maryjo@siegel.net
Ric and Paula Schiff write about the torture their daughter Crystin had to endure during chemotherapy/radiation treatment.
Crystin was diagnosed with perhaps the most malignant tumor known, which is a rhabdoid tumor of the brain. Of course, historically, there was no case of such a tumor ever having a long response to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. She received extremely heavy does of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, because nobody expected that she would live longer than a year or so. So unfortunately she was terribly damaged with this. She responded very well to Antineoplastons. We put her in complete response. But unfortunately she died from pneumonia. Her immune system was wiped out, so when she aspirated some food, she died from it. The autopsy revealed that she didn't have any sign of malignancy.
But there are also likely permanent severe health concerns related to taking chemotherapy and radiation.
In young children there is permanent damage to the brain. Unfortunately some oncologists who are dealing with such cases are really cruel to the parents, because they are saying, "well, your child will survive, but you are going to have a jolly idiot for the rest of your life."
Is it true that if parents refuse chemotherapy/radiation treatment for their children the hospital, via the courts, could have the child removed from the parents care and forced to take chemotherapy/radiation treatment?
Yes, unfortunately in some States, the law may require taking children away from the custody of the parents to send them to such treatments.
Jared Wadman. In remission for several years after using Antineoplastons.
Isn't this what happened to Donna and Jim Navarro when they chose your treatment over orthodox treatments?
That is correct. Thomas Navarro was diagnosed with medulloblastoma. He was operated on and the tumor was removed. Then he was scheduled for radiation therapy. Since he was only 4 years old, the parents knew that he'd be damaged by radiation therapy. Nobody at his age survives this type of tumor anyway after radiation therapy. So that's why they decided to come to our clinic. Unfortunately I could not treat him because FDA requires failure of radiation therapy for such patients.
And tragically he died in November 2001.
What happened was, the parents decided not to take any treatment. We asked the FDA several times to allow administration of Antineoplastons, because we have already had successful treatments for some other children without any prior radiation. Then ultimately he developed numerous tumors in May the following year. Then we suggested to the parents of Thomas, that if they are not going to take our treatment, they should go for at least chemotherapy. They went for chemotherapy to one of the best centers in the country, to Beth Israel Hospital in New York. The chemotherapy was successful, but he almost died from it. It severely affected his bone marrow. I remember a phone call from Thomas's father telling me that the doctors are thinking that they won't do anything else for him and that Thomas will die within a week because of severe suppression of bone marrow.
But I encouraged his father to do whatever is possible because such patients may turn around. Fortunately he turned around, but about a month or two later he developed 15 tumors in the brain and the spinal cord. Then, when he was close to death, when nothing was available for him, the FDA called us and told us now we can treat Thomas. When we treated Thomas he survived 6 months, and the tumors had substantially decreased, but ultimately he died from pneumonia.
Is it accurate to say that the initial orthodox treatment for brain cancer is surgery to remove the tumor?
If the tumor is located in the proper part of the brain. For some locations it is out of the question. But, you are right, that is the first step.
Does surgery alone ever cure a patient with brain cancer?
Well, some cases, with benign brain tumors, when the tumor can be completely dissected, yes, it's possible. But in most cases it's not possible.
How much of a risk does surgery present regarding spreading the cancer more quickly and other complications?
Well, not so much regarding spreading the cancer more quickly in the case of brain tumors. Such a spread may happen only with a small percentage of brain tumors that have the highest aggressiveness. But for most of the patients the tumor is not going to spread just because of surgery. Certainly surgery may damage the brain and patients may even die during the surgery. It's not the ideal thing to do of course because you are removing the tumor and you are removing a healthy part of the brain at the same time. The patient may be permanently damaged by such procedures.
Would you warn against rushing into surgery in light of how effective your treatment is? Would you most times recommend trying your treatment first?
We really would like to know what we are dealing with. This means that we would like to have at least a biopsy; if by chance it's not going to create sufficient risk for the patient. If the tumor was located in such a place in the brain where surgery is possible, then certainly we could try to remove the tumor. But I think it would be best if we can treat the patient with brain intact and get rid of the tumor completely, because then we risk the least damage possible.
Now I will turn my attention to your legal battles with the FDA. They began in 1983 when they sued you in civil court, is this correct?
In 1983, that was the first court battle with the FDA. The FDA sued us. It took about 6 weeks in court and again, we won.
Then there was an enormous raid by the FDA at your offices on July 17, 1985. What was the reason for this raid?
We were never given a reason. I think there was a concentrated action against a few alternative medicine centers because at the same time there were similar actions in the Bahamas and in some other places.
In the four court cases the FDA has brought against you, have any of your patients testified against you?
Well, on their own will, nobody testified against us. But the FDA encouraged some of our patients, and threatened them in various ways. They forced them to come to the witness stand. But really, once they were on the witness stand they behaved more like our witnesses, not FDA witnesses.
According to Daniel Haley, after the FDA lost its last court case against you in 1997, Congressman Richard Burr said it was "one of the worst abuses of the criminal justice system". Did Burr ever speak to you about it?
Yes, we talk with Congressman Burr. I believe he is right, because certainly there was no reason for such massive action on the part of the FDA. They knew that the treatment works; that the treatment helps patients, that the patients will die if they win, so they should not do it. All of this was with the taxpayer's money.
So the FDA has wasted many millions of taxpayer dollars trying to convict you on false charges of transporting Antineoplastons across State lines. What was the motivation for this vendetta?
Well, it's hard to tell, because it was never properly investigated; why they did it. But, we have some leads. For instance, on one side you have a large pharmaceutical company, which was very interested in getting hold of our patents; this is Elan Pharmaceutical. It happened that I treated successfully a close relative to the CEO of Elan. Elan became very interested in what we have. They came close to signing a final license agreement. But after they learned what we have, they decided to withdraw and then suddenly the FDA and NCI gave their full support to Elan, to do clinical trials with one of the ingredients of Antineoplastons, phenylacetate.
This was a large pharmaceutical company that was trying to appropriate my invention. On the other hand, within the FDA and NCI you have had people who were working closely with this company. For instance Mary Pendergast, who was responsible for the legal action against us, became Vice President of Elan. Also Doctor Michael Friedman, who was initially in charge of NCI cancer research, and who knew that our treatment works, later became commissioner of FDA and he did whatever he could to put us out of business. Not only that, but to simply destroy me.
On the other hand, suddenly the government decided to file for the patents, which claimed the same thing that our patents did. Never in the history of the United States do you have the issuance of two patents for the same invention. It was really a breach of patent procedure. The patent office allowed them to patent something I invented, and which I patented. And dishonest scientist Dr. Dvorit Samid, who initially worked for us, was receiving funds from us and finally went for the higher bidder (Elan).
So you have a lot of leads, which indicate that there was something between the government, dishonest scientists like Dvorit Samid and the large pharmaceutical company, Elan. And it was in best interests for them to get rid of me, destroy me, so they could appropriate my discoveries and benefit from that.
When did you initially apply for your Investigational New Drug (IND)?
We applied in May 1983.
When did you receive it?
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Tony Tondelli. In remission for several years after using Antineoplastons.
It is important for everyone to understand the economics of the drug industry. I have heard that the cost today for bringing a drug to market is upwards of 500 million and takes about 12 years, is that true?
Yes, you're right.
The drug company is then given a 17-year patent so that it can make a profit on the drug. It is little wonder the drug companies fight against natural treatments such as Laetrile, because they are unable to patent them and they pose a serious threat to their profit margins. But you are able to patent your treatment, so why was there no interest in it from the drug companies?
Basically you have 17 years from the time when you have approval of the patent and this is independent from FDA's approval process. You file the patent, once you make a discovery, and then you go through FDA procedure. You spend say 12 years or 15 years for the approval process, then you have only 2 years license from the FDA, because license is going to expire in another 2 years. Certainly the pharmaceutical companies are spending a lot of money in this process.
In our case I decided to develop this on my own, to generate money from my private practice and use the money to support the research of Antineoplastons. Again we were approached by many different pharmaceutical companies, which were interested in working with us. Certainly after the bad experience (with Elan) we are very cautious with whom to deal. On the other hand pharmaceutical companies were afraid of action from the FDA.
The NCI put off testing Antineoplastons using the fact that it failed their standard P388 leukemia mouse test, is that correct?
What is the P388 leukemia mouse test and why did Antineoplastons fail it?
Well we had informed the NCI that this was a bad type of test for antineoplastons. Antineoplastons seems to be specific for species. Different animals have different antineoplastons; mice have a different composition of antineoplastons than humans. Practically, human antineoplastons may work well in humans, but they may not have much activity in mice. We knew this, even before the NCI began testing. On the other hand we didn't have good results at all in the acute form of leukemia and we didn't even accept such patients. It was known that if they only do this type of test, it was not going to work. They still tested and used this to say that Antineoplastons don't work against cancer. Certainly the fact that something works or doesn't work against mice leukemia is irrelevant.
I'd like the reader to bear with me in the next few questions, as the point will become clear. One of the chemicals you identified in the peptides was phenylacetate. But it was far inferior to the others and you chose not to patent it, is that correct?
This is not a peptide, this is a metabolite of our antineoplastons and it's an organic acid. So this is a final metabolite of antineoplastons. It has some anti-cancer activity, but the weakest of all antineoplastons. We knew about it and that's why after some preliminary experience in the treatment of phenylacetate back in 1980, we decided that it's not worth pursuing this and then we used antineoplastons that have higher activity.
But didn't you later find out that the NCI actually holds the patent for phenylacetate?
You're right. NCI is the owner of the patent, Dr. Samid is the author but Elan has the license to use these patents. All of these three work together.
Why did the NCI patent something that was far inferior to your other Antineoplastons?
Because they knew that this was the only chance that they can get hold of something which has to do with antineoplastons.
The NCI ran clinical trials on phenylacetate in 1992 and found it to be worthless, is that correct?
Well, the clinical trials began in 1992 but it took a few years to have the results. It shows some effectiveness in brain tumors and in prostate cancer. But of course it was far away from the results that we can get with antineoplastons.
When did the NCI eventually start clinical trials of Antineoplastons?
In 1994.
I assume you gave the doctors running the trials all the information about correct dosages, is that true?
Yes, well, basically they used dosages that were 50 times lower than what we feel are effective dosages. We have some patient's relatives who were present when the treatment was administered. Formulations of antineoplastons were badly diluted. This means that the patient was receiving very little antineoplastons and some of these patients were removed from the treatment after a short period of time because they were overloaded with fluid. Well normally we see fluid overload in perhaps less than 2% of our patients. So it makes sense that perhaps the formulations of antineoplastons were diluted and when the Mayo Clinic (1999) determined the concentration of antineoplastons in blood, we realize that it was something like 50 times lower than what it should be.
Do you think the NCI purposely sabotaged your trials?
I have no doubt about it. They sabotaged the trial; they accepted patients who were too advanced. Their main effort was to give a low dose of the medicine for a short period of time and to stop treatment just for some minor problem, like if a patient developed a skin rash. They were trying to give the treatment only for a very short period of time, like for instance a couple of weeks or a month. And then of course the patient was dying after that. It was completely unethical, it was horrible. As you probably heard recently, the pharmacist who was diluting an anti-cancer drug, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. I think the same should happen to these guys who really were trying to use this for their political manipulations.
Jessica Kerfoot. In remission for several years after using Antineoplastons.
How much influence do the pharmaceutical companies wield in medicine in the US?
Extreme influence. Most of the oncologists, I'm talking about reputable oncologists, they work for pharmaceutical companies, they work in clinical trials, they receive various type of incentives from pharmaceutical companies. And basically these doctors are approving medicine, FDA may approve the medicine, but finally this advisory board may advise FDA to go ahead with this or do not approve that medicine. So really the doctors who are deciding if the medicine should be approved or not, practically all of them have some type of relation with large pharmaceutical companies.
Is there a conspiracy to suppress other treatments or is it just a case of avaricious businesses, the pharmaceutical and hospital industry's, doing everything in their power to protect their bottom line?
Well certainly they have a lot of power. When I filed my application for IND, the standard FDA policy was such that they would never approve a new drug for an individual owner, only for the large pharmaceutical companies. And that's why I believe we waited for such a long time to receive the go-ahead for our clinical trial. So certainly there were obstruction tactics. Whether this is a conspiracy or not is hard for me to tell. As you can see, the leads which I presented, like for instance a researcher who worked for me initially and then decided to go to the higher bidder, which was a pharmaceutical company; then the relationship between the pharmaceutical company and governmental agencies. All of this indicates that there is some type of conspiracy. I think a Congressional committee should study this.
Turning our attention to the doctor/oncology profession. When reading Thomas Elias's excellent book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough", I was struck by how many times patients said that their oncologists were aggressively opposed to them taking your treatment.
Even after a patient's success with your treatment, very few doctors give you the credit. Is this due to jealousy, arrogance, plain old denial or something else?
Probably a lot of arrogance. We have some prominent specialists, the best specialists in the world who really acknowledge our results and would like to work with us. On the other hand you have some doctors who hate to see a patient with success on our treatment. The fact that the patient is coming to their office, years after the patient should be dead, is something like a slap in the face. They hate it.
They will do everything they can to lie, to obstruct the information about this patient. We have a lot of evidence that oncologists were lying about the patient's condition. For instance the patient recovered completely from highly malignant cancer and the oncologist was telling us the patient died from cancer. So certainly, we have a lot of evidence about some of these doctors who are dishonest, who are liars, who cheat. But on the other hand you can't really put the same label on the entire profession. There are many other doctors who are honest and who like to know about what we have. Of course our clinic has board certified oncologists who are taking care of our patients.
I found an interesting quote by David Stewart, a philanthropist who helped fund Gaston Naessens cancer research in the 70's. He says,
"I can say categorically that most scientific researchers with whom I have had to deal are highly opinionated, arrogant, condescending, and have built-in, insurmountable prejudices."
Would you agree with these sentiments? What have your experiences been?
Well certainly, I think he's right; unfortunately that's the truth.
We spoke about Crystin Schiff briefly before. This is a particularly despicable story, because when Ric Schiff asked Dr. Michael Prados, then head of neuro-oncology at University of California at San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), if he knew of any other treatment besides chemotherapy/radiation for Crystin's brain tumor, Prados replied in the negative. But a few years before, he had sent you 14 letters documenting the effectiveness of Antineoplastons on Jeff Keller, another patient with brain cancer. Is this story true?
Yes, it's true; of course Jeff Keller had an extremely malignant brain tumor. He had a high-grade glioma of the brain; he failed radiation therapy and additional treatments. He responded extremely well to our treatment. He was one of the patients whose case was presented to the NCI. So there was no doubt about his response. Dr. Prados knew about it. If he was dealing with a hopeless tumor like Crystin Schiff, why didn't he call us?
Ryan and mother Cindy. Ryan is in remission for several years after using Antineoplastons.
It's hard for me to tell. It happens that Dr. Prados and Dr, Friedman, who became the boss of the FDA, came from the same medical school. So they work closely together, and perhaps there is something to do with the general action against us. It would be inconvenient for Dr. Prados to say that the treatment works if FDA was trying to get rid of us and when his friend was Commissioner of the FDA at that time. Perhaps that's the connection….
One of your greatest critics is Saul Green (Ph.D. Biochemistry), a retired biochemist from Memorial Sloan Kettering. In 1992 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), published Green's article, "Antineoplastons: An Unproved Cancer Therapy." What were his conclusions about Antineoplastons?
Well, Green is not a medical doctor, he's a retired biochemist; he never reviewed our results. He got hold of some of our patents and that's what he based his opinion on.
He was hired by another insurance company (Aetna) that was in litigation with us. He's like a hired assassin. Not telling the truth. So really to argue with him is good for nothing. Even if something were completely clear he would negate it. He is simply a guy who was hired by our adversaries. He would do whatever they paid him to do.
Paul Leverett was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme grade 4 brain stem tumor in May 1999. The prognosis was that he would probably be dead before the end of 1999. Orthodox medicine gave him no hope of survival.
Paul was given the maximum amount of radiation he was capable of receiving. It slowed the tumors growth slightly, but this did not alter Paul's prospects for survival at all.
After completing some research on the Internet Paul learned about Dr. Burzynski's Antineoplastons. Paul began taking Antineoplastons intravenously, administered by his wife, in September 1999. After 6 weeks Paul's tumor had grown by only 2 %, Glioblastoma's normally double in size every 2 weeks.
A PET scan in December 2000 confirmed that Paul was in complete remission. He stayed on Antineoplastons until August 2001 to ensure the tumor would not reoccur. There is just under 20% tumor necrosis remaining in his brain stem, which is probably scar tissue.
Paul's oncologist (at MD Anderson, Houston) initially wanted to show his scan's to his hospitals (MD Anderson) tumor review board. But then, for whaever reason, he refused further contact with Paul and did not go ahead with it.
The photo was taken with his wife Jennie. Paul had a web site created in order to inform people about his cancer experiences.
http://www.dontevergiveup.com
E-mail: pjleverett@ev1.net
JAMA refused to publish the article. They decided that they would publish a short letter to the editors. And obviously this is another dirty thing, because letters to the editors are not in the reference books. If you look in the computer and try to find letters to the editor from JAMA, you'll never find it. So people who are interested will always find Green's article, but they will never find our reply to Green's article, unless they go to the library. Then they can look in the JAMA volume in which the letter was published, and then they will find it. So many doctors were asking me why I did not respond to Saul Green's article because they never found my letter to the editors.
Certainly they are, because they put Green's article in JAMA in the first place, they accepted it without any peer review and then they did not allow me to honestly respond to it. I should be allowed to publish my response to the article in JAMA.
At the time of the publication Green was working as a consultant to Grace Powers Monaco, Esq., a Washington attorney who was assisting Aetna insurance agency in its lawsuit against you. What was the Aetna lawsuit about?
One of our patients sued Aetna because Aetna refused to pay for my treatment. Then Aetna got involved and Aetna sued us. Aetna really became involved in what you can call racketeering tactics because they contacted practically every insurance company in the US. They smeared us, they advised insurance companies to not pay for our services. So based on all of this, our lawyer decided to file a racketeering suit against Aetna. This was a 190 million dollar lawsuit against Aetna. So certainly Aetna was trying to discredit us by using people like Saul Green. And they hired him to work on their behalf.
So there was an obvious conflict of interest for Green because he worked for Monaco who was assisting Aetna. Was this information published in the JAMA article?
Green also questions the fact that you have a Ph.D.. At the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Symposium, July 1997, Atlanta, GA., he says in part
"Burzynski's claim to a Ph.D. is questionable. Letters from the Ministry of Health,
Warsaw, Poland, and from faculty at the Medical Academy at Lublin, Poland, say,
respectively:
2. Burzynski received the D.Msc. in 1968 after completing a one-year laboratory
project and passing an exam. (3) Burzynski did no independent research while in medical school."
He cites the people below as giving him some of this information.
1. Nizanskowski, R. ,Personal communication. Jan 15, 1992.
Well, the program in Poland is somewhat different than the US. What I have is equivalent to a US Ph.D. When a medical doctor in the US graduates from medical school, he receives a medical doctor diploma. In Poland it's a similar diploma, but it's called a physician diploma, which is equal to medical doctor. And after that, if you would like to obtain a Ph.D., you have to do independent research, both in the US and in Poland. So you have to work on an independent project, you have to write a doctorate thesis and, in addition, to that in Poland, you have to take exams in medicine, in philosophy and also you have to take exams in the subjects on which you have written your thesis, in my case this was biochemistry.
As you can see from the letter from the President of the medical school from which I graduated, this is a Ph.D..
Saul Green got information from the guys who were key communist figures in my medical school. The second secretary of the communist party in my school, hated my guts, because I didn't want to be a communist. So, somehow, Green got hold of "reputable" communist sources (laugh) to give him that information. It is exactly the President of the medical school who certified that I have a Ph.D..
Not only communists, but Bielinski was one of the key players in the communist party in my medical school. So certainly he was extremely active as a communist. And, you know that communists, they usually don't tell the truth.
So there is absolutely no question about it, you have a Ph.D. and Green's doubts are totally without foundation. Has he ever acknowledged publicly the fact that you have a Ph.D.?
He's never got in touch with me regarding this.
There are some mainstream oncologists who have stated publicly that your treatment works such as Dr. Robert Burdick, oncologist and professor at the University of Washington Medical School.
He is one of the top experts in this field.
Dr. Burzynski, there are undoubtedly many people alive today solely because of your treatments, but there could be many hundreds or thousands more alive if the public was given free access to your treatment. Do you see this ever happening?
I see this happening within a few years. We already have 8 clinical trials that prove efficacy of the treatment. However, we still need to treat more patients, because in each of our clinical trials it is required that we treat 40 patients. If we are talking about 78 clinical trials, then the number of patients that need to be treated is about 3,000. We are moving forward, probably in another 2 to 3 years we will have final approval.
A group shot of some of Dr. Burzynski's patients. Please see the Burzynski Patients web site for more information,
You have fought the government on behalf of your patients' rights for over 25 years. There must have been a few times when you considered calling it quits. What has sustained you over the years and kept you fighting?
Well you see, basically the principle. Certainly I could practice just regular medicine and not
spend millions of dollars for the research, which I did. And I could go to some other country and practice. But I feel that this is my obligation because what I am doing is right. I'm saving peoples lives. So why should I give in to some mediocre characters, to liars, to people who really misrepresent what I do. And if I fail, then America will fail also. Because really America is the bastion of Democracy in the world. If America is rotten, then the whole world will go down to hell. So if something is rotten in the Patent office, in the NCI and FDA, it is the duty of the citizen to show that this is rotten and should be corrected.
There are a number of good people who can make it work, so why should bad people erode and destroy the entire system. I felt that this was my obligation; I felt that I was right and even if I had to go to prison, I would fight for it, because this is the right thing to do. Otherwise I could not look at myself in the mirror. I would despise myself.
Do you think we will we ever have medical freedom of choice in the US, where we can choose whatever treatment we want for cancer?
I am not sure if this will ever happen. But at least I am hoping that the movement, which we pioneered, like this alternative medicine movement, will bring a lot of good to the American people. After all, now you have official recognition of alternative treatment, more or less, and this is because of our fight. If we wouldn't fight at that time, then perhaps it would not happen, but maybe it would happen another ten years from now.
Standard medical practices and the observations of physicians who are outside the medical establishment are extremely important, because anybody can make a discovery and improve the health of people. This I think is an important movement, but whether the people of America will ever have a chance to select whatever treatment they want, is another story.
Finally Dr. Burzynski, a hearty thanks to you for keeping your treatment available to cancer patients, for keeping your oath as a doctor and putting the patient ahead of financial gain, and of course, for saving lives. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for giving me the time to conduct this interview and inform people about your work and treatment.
End of interview.
Please be aware. Orthodox medicine often states that people who have recovered from cancer by unapproved methods did so due to a "spontaneous remission". This means that the cancer just disappears for no apparent reason. First of all, I do not know of any documented cases of spontaneous remissions in brain cancer. In other serious cancers it is so rare as to be unworthy of discussion.
But here is the most crucial point. A true spontaneous remission is when the cancer goes away without any treatment, either approved or unapproved. It's absurd to suggest that someone who received large amounts of Antineoplastons, and is then cancer free, had a spontaneous remission. If someone has surgery to remove a tumor and they are cancer free for years, we know it was because of the surgery.
Also remember that in many cases cancer patients turn to Antineoplastons (and other so-called alternatives) after chemotherapy and/or radiation have failed. If the patient goes into remission, oncologists often state that it was a delayed response to their treatment. This is a very convenient situation for oncologists. When their treatments fail, they still claim the credit for the patient's recovery, even after the patient has been on Antineoplastons (or other treatments) for months/years.
Read about Dr. Burzynski's treatment from the most important sources, the patients who had cancer and who are alive today because of Antineoplastons. The Burzynski Patients Web Site
Dr. Burzynski's clinic can be reached at 713-335-5697.
His web site is http://www.cancermed.com
Kim Moreno's short interview is below.
Kim also has an e-mail account she specifically set-up for people to contact her about her experiences with Dr. Burzynski, oncologists, Antineoplastons and cancer treatments in general. Any e-mail unrelated to these subjects will be deleted.
Gavin Phillips non-profit web site
http://www.cancerinform.org
Some other Internet links that may be of use to you in your research.
http://naturalhealthline.com/
http://www.ralphmoss.com/
While searching the Internet for links related to Koch's glyoxylide, I found a recent article on Dr. Mercola's web site related to a drug called Methylglyoxal (the lead ingredient, which is a metabolite in our body) that has been tested in India for over ten years. Please see,
http://www.mercola.com/2001/jun/13/methylglyoxal.htm
http://www.drwhitaker.com/
http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/
http://www.gerson.org/
Interview with Kim Moreno
Thank you for taking the time to inform people about your family's experiences while your daughter Tori was taking Antineoplastons.
Tori was first diagnosed with a Stage 4 brain stem glioma in August 1998, is that correct?
What was the prognosis?
The doctor's basically told us to take her home and prepare for her to die.
Were there any records of anyone surviving with this type of cancer, using orthodox treatments?
None that they could provide us with.
How many cancer centers did you visit?
We originally were at Miller's Children at Long Beach Memorial and then went to City of Hope. We also sent her MRI's to Dr. Fred Epstein in New York to be looked at.
And they all said the same thing, Tori's brain cancer was fatal and nothing could be done? How long was she expected to live?
Yes, they all said there was nothing we could do. She was given 2-6 weeks to live.
How did you find out about Dr. Burzynski and Antineoplastons?
On the Internet on a brain tumor support group. We read a letter from a father whose daughter was on the treatment.
Did you ask your doctors about Burzynski? Had they heard of him or researched his treatment?
Yes, we asked all of them about it. Most frowned at the idea, the oncologist refused to see her if we took her to see Dr. Burzynski. The only one who told us that he thought Dr. B might have a good chance with helping us was Dr. Fred Epstein.
When did you first visit him?
In October 1998
Did he tell you he could cure Tori?
No. He said he thought Antineoplastons would help her, but he wasn't sure he had enough time. He was very upfront and honest with the statistics he had with her type of cancer but offered no promises.
How much Antineoplastons was Tori taking?
I can't even remember what dose she ended up on when she was taking it intravenously.
What were the side effects? In the photos you sent me, Tori is greatly enlarged, I assume due to fluid retention. Is that what it was? How was that alleviated? Were there any other side effects due to the Antineoplastons?
We always had to monitor her potassium and sodium. So, she had to drink a lot of water and therefore we went through a lot of diapers. Those were the worst of the side effects. In the picture, she was so large due to being on Decadron, which we were able to wean her off of in January 1999.
Were you surprised when Tori started responding?
Yes, I have to say I was. It is hard to believe something great is going to come out of something so painful. I guess she taught me not to lose faith in life.
How soon was it before Tori's brain tumor started reducing in size?
Immediately. It had shrunk in size by 20% after the very first MRI, which I believe was in 6-8 weeks…it's been a long time and a lot of MRI's later.
For how long did Tori continue to take Antineoplastons intravenously? Did you administer this yourself at home?
She took them through IV for 2 years and yes; we did this all at home.
Does your insurance company pay for the treatment? Did they try to avoid paying for it?
No, they do not pay for the treatment.
I understand Tori is 5 today. Is she still taking Antineoplastons? Has the tumor completely gone?
Yes, she just turned five in June. She still takes Antineoplastons orally…. she takes 40 capsules a day. Her tumor has decreased in size by 86% and they believe what is left may be scar tissue.
Has Tori suffered any permanent side-side effects from Antineoplastons?
Not one. In fact, it decreased her symptoms dramatically and never caused her any harm.
So Tori is cancer free and side effect free today?
This is an incredible story Kim. Your child was diagnosed with a fatal brain cancer and the best oncologists and surgeons in America told you it was hopeless. Yet you found a cure for your child, without the billions, and so-called cancer specialists, that the NCI has at its disposal. Have any oncologists or doctors asked you about Dr. Burzynski's treatment?
They tend to ask very quietly, but never really respond to what I have to tell them. There is curiosity there, just no one is really willing to step up to the plate and believe that the antineoplastons had something to do with her survival.
What do they say now that Tori is alive and well?
The neurologists told us that sometimes it happens and they called it "spontaneous remission". Again, I asked them to provide some statistics and there were none to be seen.
That is of course the height of absurdity. To my knowledge, there has never been a documented case of any brain cancer going into spontaneous remission. Have you ever mentioned that to them?
Yes, again with no intelligent response.
So they are quite content to administer the same cancer causing, toxic treatments, when they know about your daughter's success with Antineoplastons?
Absolutely. It amazes me that some of them can sleep at night.
Has your opinion about the medical profession, specifically cancer specialists, changed since Tori's recovery? If it has, in what manner?
Yes, it has changed a lot. I guess the biggest change would be that I no longer sit back and believe anything a doctor tells m e and that we have to take our healthcare into our hands by searching for legitimate options. I believe we have the right to choose.
What do you think about the fact that some 3,000 children in the US (untold thousands worldwide) this year will be diagnosed with some form of brain cancer, and their families will have to face the same horror you did, the horror of losing a child. But virtually all of them will not be told about Antineoplastons, the treatment that cured Tori?
It really makes me sick to my stomach. That is why I want to talk to anyone who wants to listen about Tori's Story
Finally, I commend you and your husband for finding a way to cure your daughter, when all the "experts" said it was hopeless. You gave her life when she was born, and then you saved her life by finding Antineoplastons.
I thank you once again Kim for answering my questions and sending me the photos of Tori. Give my best to your family.
Gavin Phillips opinion
Dr. Burzynski is a great rarity these days. He is a courageous man who risked everything battling the FDA for over 15 years so as to allow cancer patients access to his treatment. A doctor who puts his patients well being before financial gains. But how many people diagnosed with cancer this year will ever find out about Antineoplastons? A tiny percentage, because very few mainstream oncologists will inform their patients about a treatment that has yet to be approved. And why is that? The NCI and ACS have supposedly been searching for decades for any and all treatments that are effective against cancer. For over 15 years Dr. Burzynski's treatment has shown that it is effective. Many cancer patients, including some very young children with supposedly hopeless brain cancers, are alive today because of Antineoplastons.
Here we come to the most crucial questions of all. Why did the FDA try their utmost to ruin Dr. Burzynski by involving him in 4 court cases? Why did the NCI make certain Burzynski's clinical trials failed by diluting his treatment and enrolling patients who were the least likely to respond to Antineoplastons? If this was a one-time only event, we could dismiss it as an aberration; on overzealous government agencies. But the persecution of Dr. Burzynski is not an aberration, but the norm. There have been many well-documented cases in the last 70 some years of doctors/healers who discovered an effective cancer treatment, only to find the full force of the cancer agencies trying to destroy them and their discoveries. I have learned about several during my research. Dr. William Koch/Glyoxylide, Dr. Andrew Ivy/Krebiozen, Harry Hoxsey method/herbs, Royal Rife/radio waves, Ernst Krebs/ Laetrile/Amygdalin, Gaston Naessens/714 X, Dr. Lawrence Burton/Immuno-Augmentative Therapy, Dr. Max Gerson method/diet.
What, if anything, does Dr. Burzynski's Antineoplastons have in common with these other treatments? Most of them are natural; all of them are inexpensive to produce, especially when compared to the enormous costs of conventional treatments. If cheap cancer treatments with virtually no side effects were allowed to freely compete with the cancer causing offerings of the pharmaceutical companies, the outcome is obvious. The pharmaceutical companies, and the hospitals that administer their drugs, will lose tens of billions in profits. And this I believe is the reason Dr. Burzynski, and the people who have gone before him, have been publicly vilified as "quacks" and their treatments discredited. The fact is that the pharmaceutical companies control American medicine, and they are only interested in treatments from which they can derive a profit.
Every cancer patient in America, and the world, should have free access to Antineoplastons. It is intolerable, not to mention totally un-American, to give a profit obsessed industry a monopoly over Americans healthcare. Nobody should have the right to force toxic chemicals down our family's throat, especially when Dr. Burzynski's treatment has proven effective (for some cancers) and does not have appalling side effects.
One point, in which I disagree with Burzynski about, is the possibility of medical freedom of choice happening in America. It would happen in a year or two if enough Americans demanded it. You can help make that a reality. Please forward this interview to as many people as you know, as well as media outlets. Around ten thousand Americans die every week from cancer; we simply must have medical freedom of choice. Thank you for your time.
Gavin Phillips.
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