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Death Of A 6 Year Old Sparks FDA Investigation On A Doctor For Selling False Hopes To Cure Cancer
http://www.themedguru.com/articles/death-6-year-old-sparks-fda-investigation-doctor-selling-false-hopes-cure-cancer-49683.html ^

Posted on 11/16/2013 6:41:10 AM PST by Madison Andrew

6 year old boy Josia Cotto’s mom and dad had no choice than to let him rest peacefully as their child was fighting a brain tumor that was inoperable for a period of 10 months. His mother said that they knew that they could do nothing about their son as they say he was unresponsive and did not open his eyes. They covered him in a soft blanket in white and blue and held on to the tiny hand one last time before the ambulance took him to a local hospital. She said that they told Josia that he had two choices – one to keep fighting with the condition and the other, to keep peace with God.

Though the couple was ready to pay anything to get his life back, they chose to cling on the hopes offered by Stanislaw Burzynski. He is a doctor based in Houston who claimed to cure even the inoperable tumors of pediatric cancer. Though doctor’s can cure over 83% of pediatric cancer in America, there is no hope for Josia’s tumor as there was only 5% survival.

Being an internist with no board certification for oncology training formally, Burzynski had said publicly that he could cure more than 200 kids per year who had brainstem tumors. The 70 year old doctor terms his drug as antineoplastons and adds that he has treated over 8000 patients since the year 1977. He said that the synthesized sodium based drugs were derived from blood and urine. The urine was collected from public utility areas like parks, bars and other areas that explains the pungent odor in it. Though not approved by FDA, he began to prescribe the drug for cancer therapy, AIDS and lupus.

While some patients claim that, it cured them of different medical conditions, National Cancer Institute has said that there is no proof that even a single patient has been cured so far by Burzynski and helped them live longer. It also said that the drugs formulated by him have potential risks such as coma, brain inflammation and death among the patients. The FDA report says that the blood sample from Josia prior to his death showed a high sodium level in the blood of 205 miiliomoles pl which is fatal. It is notable that FDA forbade the doctor from using his medicines to children on 30th July, 2012, six weeks after Josia’s death. - See more at: www.themedguru.com/articles/death-6-year-old-sparks-fda-investigation-doctor-selling-false-hopes-cure-cancer-49683.html


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: aids; antineoplastons; burzynski; cancer; drb; houston; josiacotto; lupus; pediatriccancer; texas; urine
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Death Of A 6 Year Old Josia Cotto
1 posted on 11/16/2013 6:41:10 AM PST by Madison Andrew
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To: Madison Andrew

“there is no hope for Josia’s tumor as there was only 5% survival.”

that is the stupidest statement I have read this morning.

I do not fault the parents who tried what they thought was their only chance. Brain tumors, cancer in general, can be a baffling disease in the way that it is treated and the way that bodies respond to the ‘standard’ treatment.

No doubt the FDA will spend lots of money on this and of course never talk about how chemo kills the patient or that cancer really isn’t cured when it comes back later


2 posted on 11/16/2013 6:47:26 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Madison Andrew

“they chose to cling on the hopes offered by Stanislaw Burzynski.”

With a name like this, it sounds like this guy practices Soviet-style socialized medicine.
This should have the parents a clue to find another Dr. With a name like Goldberg or Rothstein, you can pretty much getting a quality doc than one named “Stanislaw”...

Just an observation...


3 posted on 11/16/2013 6:48:40 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Madison Andrew; Armen Hareyan; B4Ranch; BykrBayb; cajungirl; cookcounty; dadfly; duckbutt; ...
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4 posted on 11/16/2013 6:50:12 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Nifster

I couldn’t agree more. Some of the chemo treatments kill red blood cells in the marrow and cause even further damage.


5 posted on 11/16/2013 6:50:19 AM PST by gattaca ("If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain)
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To: Madison Andrew
He said that the synthesized sodium based drugs were derived from blood and urine. The urine was collected from public utility areas like parks, bars and other areas that explains the pungent odor in it.

Whaaaaa...?

6 posted on 11/16/2013 6:50:46 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Madison Andrew
Well, hell. Why didn't somebody think of this before.

We oughta get The FDA to investigate Obamacare.

7 posted on 11/16/2013 6:51:38 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Madison Andrew

“Death of a 6 year-old”, I was hoping was being applied to this 0’ and his merry regime.


8 posted on 11/16/2013 6:56:45 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Madison Andrew

This doc has a long history of being beat up by the feds.
I don’t know if his medicine is any good or not.


9 posted on 11/16/2013 6:59:27 AM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

He is not a quack. I’m actually quite sure Burzynski did not tell her that her son would be cured by his method. However, the FDA has been trying to shut him down for decades and he has been taken to court many times. Each time he has been able to show that the FDA was not honest in their prosecution. The FDA’s heavy handling of his clinic in Texas has also been the focus of Congressional hearings.

This is merely one more attempt by the FDA to shut him down. I hope he beats it again. He has had a lot of success with several types of cancers. (He does not claim to have “the cure” for all cancers.)


10 posted on 11/16/2013 7:04:56 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: Madam Theophilus

http://www.burzynskimovie.com/

Here’s a movie about the story of his work with cancer.


11 posted on 11/16/2013 7:06:21 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: Madison Andrew

97 of 102 people found the following review helpful
True Hope - A Response to Lauren Seiler, November 1, 2002
By Jodi GoldThis review is from: The Burzynski Breakthrough (Hardcover)
I am the best evidence that the conclusions drawn by Lauren Seiler in his Oct. 20, 2002 review of this book are completely wrong. I hope he reads this and seeks out the Burzynski treatment for his son, whose life it might well save. I was diagnosed with an inoperable anaplastic astrocytoma (Grade 3 brain tumor) in May 2000. Doctors told me that I had somewhere between 6 and 18 months to live. I am alive and cancer free today in large part because of “The Burzynski Breakthrough,” the book and the treatment. Shortly after my diagnosis, I learned of this book and, unlike Seiler, contacted the author with questions that were in some ways like his, and in some ways different. After reading the book and hearing Elias’ answers, I sought out the treatment and was symptom free within less than four months - just when my other doctors had told me I should be on my deathbed.
When I read Seiler’s review, I telephone Elias and asked him to provide me responses to some of his criticisms. Here is a summary of what he told me, going through the Seiler review point by point:

There is no bibliography in the rear of this book because every source is identified specifically in the text. Elias said his publisher did not wish to list all Burzynski’s publications because they number more than 500, and he has cited the most relevant ones in the text of the book.

Elias does indeed describe his methods for choosing patients included in the book. In both the prologue and epilogue, he details the cases of patients he met in the waiting room of the Burzynski Clinic on his first visit there, a completely unannounced visit. He included histories of all patients present who were willing to be interviewed in the epilogue and the prologue. As for the choice of which patients to use as full-length case-history chapters in in the book, Elias said they were chosen in a method he described as akin to the stratified random sampling done by political pollsters. Since he wanted broad geographic distribution (and got it, with patients from CA, AL, NY and points in between), he selectd at random from a list of Burzynski patients from various regions - the South, West, Northeast, etc.

Seiler wondered about the authenticity of the tables in the rear of the book and asked how long those in complete remission had been at that category. As he would have seen had he read the charts in detail, all information came from Burzynski’s submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration. He would risk criminal prosecution if any such information was falsified. The definitions of complete remission, partial response and stable disease are precisely those the FDA uses in all clinical trials of cancer drugs. Those listed in complete remission have been in that condition for varying lengths of time. The best evidence for the truth of positive results reported in the charts is the fact that negative results are also reported in the same charts. Neither Burzynski nor Elias has ever claimed this treatment is 100% successful.

Seiler also notes that there is little critical comment in the book. In point of fact, the book contains an entire chapter detailing criticisms of Burzynski, his methods and his Antineoplastons, rebutting them in detail. It is simply false to say Elias has ignored the critics when he has specifically responded to the most prominent of those critics. As for criticisms by patients, Elias reports that even among prosecution witnesses at Burzynski’s criminal trial in 1997, he found none.

Elias also responds to Seiler’s concluding comments, one by one:

1. Elias admits on Page 8 not being an expert reader of MRIs. But, Seiler suggests, he should have brought an expert with him. Elias notes that on Page 8, part of his acknowledgements, he was discussing the news story he wrote on strict deadline about Burzynski while still a correspondent for Scripps Howard. He says he did seek expert readings of scans later, while researching the book.

2. Seiler says Elias mentions a Stage 2 astrocytoma on Page 280, when these tumors are designated by grades, not stages. Elias responds by noting that the “Stage 2” reference came ina direct quotation from a physician, adding that he at no point changed even a word in any direct quotation included in the book.

3. To Seiler’s objection to one of Elias’ conclusions, the author responds that “facts are facts. I describe the situation as it is, not what I or anyone lese wishes it to be.”

In short, I am living evidence that Elias does not offer false hope in his book, as Seiler claims. To the contrary, anyone who sees me (and hundreds of other long-surviving Burzynski patients) will know there is real hope with the Burzynski treatment for cancer patients of all kinds, and especially for brain tumor patients, for whom nothing else works at all.

Jodi Gold - Los Angeles, CA


12 posted on 11/16/2013 7:08:25 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the AmeriHealth BenefitsOn this pacan Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: Nifster

5.0 out of 5 stars A real eye-opener, November 26, 2002
By Henry Wasserman (Deerfield, Illinois) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: The Burzynski Breakthrough (Hardcover)
Some say that Burzynski is a quack, but this book establishes that the reverse is true — he’s actually a hero who has discovered a way to save untold numbers of lives, while the establishment doctors who have ostracized him are the real phonies. Like many scientists who defy current paradigms, Burzynski has been subjected to ridicule and fierce opposition. Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote that “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” My guess is that Burzynski’s treatment is nearing stage 3 and will eventually be accepted as a standard treatment.

In this very readable book, Elias establishes beyond much doubt that this treatment works on many cancers. The charts in the appendix are the only place I have ever seen comprehensive statistics reporting how well a particular drug performs against any specific type of cancer. Why don’t the other drugs report their numbers? Probably, because they don’t work nearly as well as this one. What’s more, Elias establishes through very meticulous documentation that the top scientific agencies of the U.S. government have known for years about how effective and non-toxic the Burzynski treatment usually is.

In short, this book is a must read for anyone with cancer or anyone with a relative or friend suffering from any form of the disease.


13 posted on 11/16/2013 7:10:04 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the AmeriHealth BenefitsOn this pacan Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

5.0 out of 5 stars A story that needed telling, November 1, 2002
By Henry Wasserman (Deerfield, Illinois) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: The Burzynski Breakthrough (Hardcover)
Thank you, Thomas Elias, for bringing the Burzynski story to the public’s attention in a big way. I know this book has already saved lives — my neighbors’ son was diagnosed two years ago with an untreatable brain stem tumor, given less than three months to live — but is alive today because they read this book and acted on it.
But I didn’t know until I read the book myself that the government has tried for years to stifle this drug, even tried to put Burzynski in prison. It’s an incredible story of governmental malfeasance, very well told.

Bravo, Mr. Elias, both for writing this book and for making it such a good read!


14 posted on 11/16/2013 7:10:54 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the AmeriHealth BenefitsOn this pacan Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: loungitude

5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone with cancer - this is the quintessential book!!, August 19, 1998
By A Customer

This review is from: The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Century’s Most Promising Cancer Treatment...and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It (Hardcover)
Elias has FINALLY gathered ALL the information about this wonderful man and his devotion to the truth about cancer research, cancer treatment, and the government’s full-scale vendetta against him. This book shows the depths to which bureaucrats will stoop to keep their consitutents - specifically, the large parmaceutical companies - happy.
Conventional cancer treatments often don’t work, and consistently place added strain on the patient, but use of these drugs is bringing millions of dollars into the coffers of those same large companies that have brought pressure to bear on the government to eliminate Dr. Burzynski. Dr. Burzynski’s treatments are non-toxic, therefore eliminating the horrendous side-effects of conventional therapies, and it has been proven OVER and OVER that they DO work.

Elias is not a credulous neophyte, swept up in a fairytale. When he began research for this book, he was a clear-eyed skeptic, and I believe the book shows he maintained his objectivity throughout.

The book nails every issue with clarity, and logic.

If you, or someone you love has cancer, PLEASE read this book - it could SAVE A LIFE!!!


15 posted on 11/16/2013 7:11:54 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the AmeriHealth BenefitsOn this pacan Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: loungitude; Madison Andrew
This doc has a long history of being beat up by the feds. I don’t know if his medicine is any good or not.

This "doctor" is a well-known (among actual cancer doctors) quack. Like any quack, he is a psychopathic con man who preys on people's desperation to give them false hope and relieve them of their money.

Here is a blog where a legitimate cancer doctor comments (a lot) about quack Burzynski. There is no scientific evidence to support Burzynski's claims. He is scum, the lowest of the low, who richly deserves his "long history of being beat up by the feds" and much more.

16 posted on 11/16/2013 7:19:06 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Nifster
“there is no hope for Josia’s tumor as there was only 5% survival.”

There is an obvious difference between %5 and nothing. A 5% survival rate means that there clearly is hope.

17 posted on 11/16/2013 7:23:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Madison Andrew
We will see 0bamacare move quickly and decisively to crush any “alternative” medicine.
18 posted on 11/16/2013 7:40:46 AM PST by Zuse
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To: gattaca; Nifster

Totally agree that the mainstream medicine kills and harms more people. I also think the boob business is big business and they are “dying” to find something wrong in mammograms and other testing.

Take your minerals and nutrients and heal thyself. Iodine is a big help going a long way in killing abnormal cells.


19 posted on 11/16/2013 8:03:21 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

Anybody who questions the “standard of (0)care” will be sent for psychiatric referral.

Hey under 0care those “preventive” shots are free! Those “preventive” pills are free! Take them. Or else.


20 posted on 11/16/2013 8:27:05 AM PST by Zuse
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