“Remember when Laetrile was the cancer cure that patients flocked to Mexico for treatment that wasn’t available in the U.S.? That didn’t turn out to well........”
Late 70’s my cousin was diagnosed with Hodgekins disease. His nutty wife was a quack hippy and talked him out of chemo in favor of laetrile. He died less than a year later.
That's just awful because it is curable.
Amygdalin is not a viable stand alone treatment for any cancer. It can be helpful, but any successful treatment has many layers, so if your relative relied upon laetrile (amygdalin) alone, that was a losing proposition from the start. This is talked about at cancertutor.com
There is a new approach to cancer which looks at how abnormal cells produce energy in the mitochondria and seeks to shut down those metabolic pathways. If you can shut down every method a tumor cell uses to produce energy, then the cancer cells will die, especially when put under stress. Jane McLellan has written a seminal book on this subject, “How to Starve Cancer”. It is not about diet. The amazing find that she highlights is that there are many cheap drugs which can be used to shut down abnormal cell metabolism such as Metformin, Doxycycline, Mebendazole, Lipitor. The “big pharma” companies know about the off-purpose uses of these drugs, but they either do not want to engage in billion dollar studies to get them approved for new uses, or they do not see any profit since they are off patent.
They can also be taken in parallel with Chemo and radiation, making those choices more effective.