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..."Dr. Burzynski has grossed tens of million of dollars from "patients." "...

And that is the extent of your comments? As though no other doctor has EVER earned a buck from all these years of pretending to actually be looking for cures for cancer?

Does Dr. Bryzynski continue to practice medicine in the State of Texas or not? As I recall in reading so much about this after Dr. Keyes brought it out during the debates, no one seems much interested in suing him on the grounds of 'quackery'...something about evidence? They did stop shipments out of state under interstate commerce regs apparently.

Years ago, the majority of little children with leukemia died despite very toxic regiments. Now, thanks to the tireless, painful efforts of pediatric oncologists, the survival rate is good, resulting in healthy children. Unfortunately, in the process of killing the malignant cells, normal cells are affected and after 20 to 40 yrs, new malignancies may develop. New drugs are evaluated every day.

The FDA has a very difficult job to do balancing proven, effective drugs against the patient's urgency. They have relaxed many stringent rules in the face of AIDS drugs.

No doubt alternative medicine has value but let's hold it up to the light of research and do double-blind studies before we cause unnecessary pain, damage and expense. The reason conventional drugs are so expensive in the U.S. is because of all the R and D. Anybody can cut up some organic roots and make a claim but it takes painstaking work to decifer the truth about each drug and its numerous effects, side-effects, routes of metabolism, etc. This has become a sacred cow to many Americans. Too bad. They stand in the way of clear evidence instead of hearsay arguments.

As though no other doctor has EVER earned a buck from all these years of pretending to actually be looking for cures for cancer?

Speaking as a physician, I accuse you of scurrilous conspiracy mongering of the lowest sort. I don't dismiss alternative treatments out of hand, and I don't know enough about the facts of this case to make an informed judgment, but I do know that I have never once met a physician who would "pretend" to look for a cure for cancer with no intention of finding one.

I do no research to speak of myself, but many of my colleagues have devoted their lives to finding cures for cancer and other deadly diseases. There is not one of them who would conceal a proven life-saving treatment.

Especially ridiculous is the popular notion that the AMA suppresses medical discoveries for the financial benefit of its members. Only half or less of us belong to the AMA anyway, and none of us would obey an order from them to treat any patient with anything less than our best available science.

This kind of conspiracy mongering is usually a distraction put forth by greedy quacks who are looting the pockets of desperate patients with terminal illnesses. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for repeating it.

-ccm