Posted on 06/12/2011 11:34:19 AM PDT by thesearethetimes...
This is a link to a free viewing of a very interesting documentary about a doctor in Texas who seems to have discovered an amazingly effective tool to fight cancer. I am in the middle of watching it, but just watched an undeniable Atlas Shrugged moment that moved me to post it here....
It will only be free to view until midnight tonight.
Thought provoking stuff here, and I will be interested to hear what ya'll think.
Agreed. In my pre-Mom life, I was an X-Ray Tech. The oncology wards and radiation rotations were indeed heartbreaking, but the people I met there, of all ages, taught me much about the strength of the human spirit.
May God give us the strength to right this ship.
Tatt
I agree. They really went after him; so he may have had something.
Paridel,
Thank you very much for your extensive reply. That is what I was looking for here, and happily, almost always find - another point of view, and usually it is well supported.
I do wonder about why it is that being treated by Dr. Burzynski disallows a patient from being treated by any one else? It is unconscionable that the medical establishment would in any sense , punish a patient for trying something in such a life ending scenario. It would seem that, in my view, that some one is may still be trying to put this doctor out of business. Interesting too, since they have patented his procedures? (Question mark since all I know is what I learned in the documentary).
Again, thank you for your response, and I pray that you and your mom can find an effective treatment that will help her, and soon.
May God bless.
Tatt
Thank you for the kind words for my mom. It is an ugly decease, but it is remarkable the outpouring of support that my parents have received and her spirits are still high.
Different treatment plans may interact badly with each other. Unfortunately, most cancer treatments are very invasive. Sometimes it isn't safe for the patient to pursue multiple treatments at once, and in other cases one treatment will prevent the other from working properly. For instance, my understanding is that some of the newer vaccines can't function if you still have avastin in your system, so you have to wait a number of weeks for the avastin to clear out before you can take them. That isn't punishing people for taking Avastin, it is just the physical reality of the treatments.
It isn't that they are punishing Dr. Burzynski’s patients, most of the time when you pick a treatment regimen it rules out other treatments for quite some time. I think it is very important for doctors to explain all these options to you: you can do surgery and then chemo, or you can do radiation but then that rules out surgery, etc. (These are all hypothetical, it clearly depends on the individual patient). Once you pick the treatment you may have to stick with and forgo other options, which is why patients deserve to have all the facts. And since he simultaneously treats patients with more conventional approaches it does reduce their options quite a bit.
Rick
Thank you for your detailed “rebuttal” to the film. It always helps to hear both sides of an issue.
When trying to evaluate a technical issue like this, we laymen need to fall back on the style of the arguments being made as much as the technical details that we have a limited capability to understand.
Why attack Dr. Burzynski instead of his research? If he was indeed fleecing his patients, or lacked proper credentials to practice medicine, he would have been striped of his license long ago, given the harassment he has received from the FDA and the Texas medical Board. Why on earth does it matter if a doctor practices out of a strip mall instead of a posh building subsidized by the taxpayer? Bringing up these things dilutes your message.
What I find most compelling about the film is that the FDA agreed to go ahead with trials only after the U.S. Government had obtained patents on the treatment. It certainly smells of a conflict of interest.
Best wishes to your Mom. I hope her treatment is successful.
I can only cry for America, the demonic, money grubbing thugs have taken over every facet of the federal, and perhaps state government. Proven.
pandy, if at all possible you must see this movie. It is free until midnight tonight.
He did. I thought he was too.
You saved me the time to type up a reply. When my son was battling medulloblastoma a few years ago, I researched Burzynski’s methods extensively, and concluded it was quackery. Dangerous quackery. And believe me, we were willing to try almost anything. (In fact, we did try some things that may have been a little wacky.)
I will say a prayer for your mom - terrible disease.
I strongly urge you to view this film and consider pinging your list, Arthur.
Blood on the FDA's hands most assuredly. Folks, this agency is in the thrall of the pharmaceutical industry, and has not a whit of concern for the people, supposedly protected by its guardianship. At least as evil and rapacious as Fannie Mae, and the rest of the federal rip-offs, staffed with crooks, "serving the people."
Every week there is a new class action lawsuit being advertised for an approved drug that turns out to be a poison. If you haven’t watched the film I strongly encourage you to take the time to do so. The depth of mendacity and pure evil our government has sunk to is unbelievable.
Tests of antineoplastons at the National Cancer Institute have never been positive. The drug company Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals could not duplicate Burzynski's claims for AS-2.1 and A-10. The Japanese National Cancer Institute has reported that antineoplastons did not work in their studies. No Burzynski coauthors have endorsed his use of antineoplastons in cancer patients.
Watch the film and you will find out why. They all lied about what they did. It is documented in their own reports, in court documents and in FDA documents. In one FDA report they categorically say that "antineoplastons are not toxic and highly effective."
I highly recommend viewing this film and passing it on to your ping lists. Thanks for your consideration.
He wasn’t destroyed. The goobermint tried it, but he fought back and his patients (who love him) stood up for him.
I don't think he's a quack. I think he's a hero.
FWIW, he has actually cured brain cancers... tumors which conventional therapy hardly touches and doesn't cure.
Were I to be diagnosed with cancer, I'd rather go to an alternative doctor. At least I'd have a fighting chance.
No honest doctor would claim to cure everybody who walks through the doors to his office. But the batting average, to me, for orthodox cancer medicine isn't very good.
There is a lot of cancer in my family members. I remember that one grandmother died when I was very young. My mother and I lived, for a while, with an aunt and uncle. The uncle came down with laryngeal cancer, and I witnessed what he went through (surgery and radiation). The cancer kept recurring, and finally killed him.
THAT convinced me that there had to be something better, something less horrifying, something that wasn't worse than the disease itself. So, when I got out on my own, I looked into such alternative treatments. And there *are* things that work--but most orthodox doctors never think outside their little boxes.
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