We have several friends going through radiation and chemotherapy thretments after losing a beloved aunt two years ago from the same problem. I was clicking through netflix's movie offerings on our wii and ran across an immediate blood pressure inducer - a documentary about the fda, national cancer institute, David Kessler, and a cast of thousands that have worked for fourteen years to prevent Dr. Burzynski from up-ending the trillions of dollars invested in cancer research and treatment regimens. If you have friends or family suffering or want to see a beautiful documentary that lays out how our federal government is using us as Soylent Green for the medical establishment, please, please see this documentary. I am not affiliated with it in any way but after seeing it, I felt compeled to post here in addition to getting the information to my friends and family.
Hayek is right.
I haven’t watched the movie, I am sure that there is no bias. Yes, that is a bit of sarcasm.
I went to his site, it looks like he is complaining about the cost of completing the Phase III trials. I can’t blame him, the Feds have made it entirely too expensive to bring a new drug to market.
Pinging decimon for health related thread! (Some might find the pics of early posters an added plus!)
Good first post, Hayeksright! Welcome to the new level of FReepdom beyond lurking!
For an overview of the treatment, see:
This is very old “news” and the efficacy of the treatment is highly dubious.
I have watched it, and it is compelling.
It’s free on Netflix streaming by the way.
I thought about posting this, and then I realized I’d get a lot of quacks complaining who hadn’t watched the movie. So, I guess you’ll take the heat instead.
If cancer treatments don’t come from government funded or drug company funded research, then they get labeled ‘alternative’ intentionally to demonize them. It’s surprising that Freepers respond in defense of the system set up to prohibit this doctor’s research when they claim they are freedom loving and small government folks.
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
All those chemotherapy drugs and the doctors who prescribe them
All those so called studies that just juggle the doses of chemo & radiation, and
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.
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I looked into this in 2000 when a beloved relative had glioblastoma (brain cancer). At that time, Dr. Burzynski refused to finish the trials, skewed his results by lumping all grades of astrocytoma together, and demanded huge fees up front. I find him distasteful at the least in his unwillingness to prove his antineoplastons worthwhile, and possibly someone who preys on desperate people with a worthlesss “cure” at the worst.
Thanks for posting.
Approximately 35 years ago there was an article in Penthouse (yes, Penthouse) entitled, ‘The Solid Gold Cancer Train’, and it was a very well researched and clearly written article. I knew back then that the cancer industry was big business, a medical mafia, and here we are 35 years later and it’s bigger than ever.
In 1973 my college roommate paid $250 for a calculator that was 1/10th as powerful as the calculator in my granddaughter’s $7.00 toy play-phone. I could go on about the exponential leaps in technology but I’m sure you get the idea. How far, really, have we come with cancer cures?
However, the documentary was clearly slanted in Dr. Burzynski's favor, and so I only got half the story. It would seem to me that not even this arrogant government could offend any private citizen so egregiously and escape without consequence.
Is this the Steve Jobs cure? He thought the Docs were wrong too.
Has been posted here several times already in the past few months...
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It’s another chapter of “Death By Liberalism”. I guess a lot of people have died while the FDA goes through its red tape.
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