>Subject: Re: Death By Medicine From: "Peter Moran"
[email protected] Date: 3/5/2004 1:59 PM
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http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_02.htm Anth
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>Others have pointed out that such articles involve spurious extrapolations
from usually twenty and thirty year old figures which involve their own
>selectivity of data and other extrapolations
Others as in the *gang*.
> Lazarou's figures have been torn apart many times.
YEAH, like Dr Burzynski was torn apart.
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(This is not to deny that adverse events and medical error are not real problems and that many of
them are avoidable. )
As in, how many???????
>What I would like to ask is why an article supposed to be supporting nutritional supplements
>against a perceived attack can find nothing positive to say about their medical usefulness?
Oh they can, just not in *this* article.
> It is akin to the tactics of the "alternative" cancer industry which publishes volumes about the
> perceived failings of conventional cancer treatment (aided by the openness with which that is
> conducted) and nothing but "come hither" hints and teasers about its own true results.
WRONG.
How soon you forget!!!!!
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http://www.whale.to/cancer/burzynski.html
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>DR BURZYNSKI, M.D.
>
>"What made Dr Burzynski a threat to the cancer industry from the beginning was the prospect that
>antineoplaston therapy represented a successful alternative to toxic and dangerous chemotherapy
>drugs, upon which most of the cancer industry’s profits depend. Did the NCI pick up the tab for
>completing his research? Did the ACS help with favourable publicity? Of course not. The minute NCI
>saw evidence of antineoplastons working they distorted the data by withdrawing the 2 successful
>patients and thus the evidence. NCI’s conduct towards him is a striking example of how an agency
>presumed to be objective can set up a study that will either prove or disprove anything it wants.
>In this case, there is clear evidence that NCI wanted to prove antineoplastons
didn’t
>work."—John Diamond, M.D. & Lee Cowden, M.D.
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>"Without exception, all the oncologists I talked to about Dr Burzynski were scornful and hostile.
>Twenty- five years of practicing unconventional medicine did not prepare me for what I discovered.
>Delving into attitudes, actions, and beliefs of modern oncologists was like opening a box of cereal
>and finding it full of worms. They just don’t care….The question I kept asking was why, and the
>answer to that question gradually began to creep out: Dr Burzynski’s discovery threatens one of
>the largest and most lucrative industries in the history of mankind, the cancer treatment industry.
>
>All those radiation machines and doctors who run them
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>All those chemotherapy drugs and the doctors who prescribe them
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>All those so called studies that just juggle the doses of chemo & radiation, and
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>All those surgeons who have been flailing at cancer for over a 100 years
>
>If it (antineoplastons) is allowed to flourish, it renders obsolete the entire cancer treatment
>industry. He has discovered a non-toxic treatment that is about as close to cure as we have ever
>seen. If you think the lumber jacks in the Pacific Northwest were scornful of the spotted owl, you
>haven’t seen anything yet….
>
>Also it is not just about money, it is about strongly held beliefs, beliefs that have meshed with
>the personality of virtually everyone in the cancer treatment industry, especially the physicians.
>In short, these beliefs are that cancer can only be treated with therapies that mutilate, poison,
>or burn the patient, in the hope that they "kill" the cancer…..Therefore, each patient who is
>miraculously cured by Burzynski’s nontoxic therapy is not viewed as a breakthrough, or even as
>something good, but rather as a dangerous messenger of heresy, a terrible threat to their
>beliefs."—Dr Whitaker, M.D.
>
>"Typical of Burzynski's extraordinary results were the outcomes for early groups of advanced cancer
>patients treated with antineoplastons: 60 percent enjoyed objective remission, 47 percent
>experienced complete remission, and 20 percent survived for over five years without cancer. These
>and other results are far superior to anything reported then or now for standard cancer treatments.
>(For example, in 1985 interleukin-2 was heavily promoted by orthodoxy, supposedly as a highly
>promising new treatment after a single study showed it to have been associated with a complete
>remission from cancer in only one patient out of twenty-four treated -- a positive response rate of
>only fourpercent!)."--Barry Chowka
http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/cancer94.html
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>Fly to Texas.
>
>Dr Burzynski Research Institute Home page
http://catalog.com/bri/bri.htm http://[email protected]/
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>Burzynski Patient Group Directory
http://www.burzynskipatientgroup.org/stories.htm
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>Ralph Moss on Burzynski saga
http://www.ralphmoss.com/burz.html
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>Testimony of Raphaele Moreau-Horwin & Michael Horwin
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>Choices in Healing by Michael Lerner
http://www.commonwealhealth.org/choicescontents.html
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>Happy Brain Cancer Statistics
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>Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski took the FDA to court for slander. The FDA was telling oncologists that he
> and his cancer medicine were frauds, but Dr. Burzynski won the case and the FDA was issued a
> cease and desist order.
>
>To prove his case, Dr. Burzynski asked a respected oncologist specializing in brain cancer, Dr.
>Robert Burdick, to review his patient records and act as an expert witness. The full text of the
>statement is reproduced on the Burzynski Research Institute's site:
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http://www.cancermed.com
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>If the text of the statement was not true, Dr. Burzynski would loose his medical license
>and clinic.
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>In the statement, Dr. Robert Burdick stated that primary brain cancer goes into remission 1 in 500+
>times, regardless of treatment, but that he documented 17 cases of remission in 40 total cases of
>primary brain cancer enrolled in one of Dr. Burzynski's phase I trials. He stated with authority
>that the antineoplaston medicine must be responsible.
>
>Dr. Burzynski beat the primary brain cancer odds by more than 21250% Let the skeptics argue with
> that!
>
>The FDA hauled Dr. Burzyski before 4 grand juries, none of which found him guilty of anything. When
>they announced a fifth grand jury trial, angry voices were raised in congress and the FDA quickly
>dropped its charges.
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>The FDA tried its best to jail Dr. Burzynski without any proof of wrong doing, and if they had
>succeeded the medicine that he and his large staff of doctors are testing would have been
>effectively suppressed. As it is, justice prevailed and 72 phase II trials are currently in
>progress.
>
>The amazing results of his medicin are not limited to primary brain cancer. They include all the
>major cancers, and are far better for the major cancers. The medicine is non-toxic.
>
>Too bad the oncologists and skeptics here will get mad at me for pointing this out. Too bad that,
>like the FDA, they don't want you to know about it.
>
>Jan