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It is common sense to take a method and try it.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

When Anthony J. Sattilaro, MD, picked up two hippie hitchhikers one

day, they told him that " Cancer isn't all that hard to cure. "

Ridiculous though the statement would seem to a hospital president

such as Dr. Sattilaro, the issue was awfully close to home. Dr.

Sattilaro, still in his forties, had terminal cancer. The doctor had

already received the worst possible news: cancer had spread

throughout his body. It was inoperable and untreatable. He was

going to die.

 

If hunger is the best condiment, then desperation must surely be the

most teachable moment. The seemingly inane remarks by his

counterculture passengers prompted Sattilaro to try a rigid meatless

macrobiotic diet, high in whole grains, beans and vegetables.

Astonishingly, it worked. In a matter of months, his physicians

could not find any trace of cancer in his body.

 

You don't believe this. I didn't believe it either. I am as

skeptical as the day is long. In any business telephone call, I

document the date, time and name of the person I speak with.

Always. Lots of people do that, yes? OK, try this one: every time I

take my car into the service garage to get the oil changed, I check

the oil before I leave. I am far, far more careful about what I

accept as medical fact.

 

Throughout this book I've been asking the rhetorical question, " Who

are the quacks? " I've strongly implied, to say the least, that they

are the conventional, tunnel-visioned, synchophantic yes-persons of

the medical, dietetic and pharmaceutical professions. Not alone in

this criticism, I quote endocrinologist Deepak Chopra, MD, author of

many best-selling books: " More people live off cancer than die from

it. " There is no profit in prevention, but plenty of money in

disease. Like the " firemen " in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, medical

science encourages fires and then glamorizes their bungled attempts

to put them out. By ignoring the evidence (and saying it is

anecdotal or non-scientific), doctors and dietitians have closed the

moseleum door on millions.

 

A bizarre scenario indeed is our " war on cancer. "

 

Laetrile is a good case in point. Laetrile is a very controversial

anti-cancer agent, from almonds and apricot pits. It has erroneously

been called " Vitamin B-17 " but it is not a vitamin. Rather, laetrile

is amygdalin, a cyanide-containing substance. The cyanide is the

active ingredient, so to speak, that somewhat selectively kills the

cancer cells. It is much like cytotoxic pharmaceutical chemotherapy

(which explains both the need for caution and also the stringent

rejection it has received from the medical powers that be.) The

imperious medical monarchy, which includes the AMA, FDA, and their

ensuing laws, make laetrile therapy strikingly difficult to obtain

legally inside United States borders.

 

Chapters 8 and 9 of Ralph Moss' The Cancer Syndrome (1980) disclose

nitty-gritty details of some tantalizingly successful laetrile

research at Memorial Sloan-Ketterling Cancer Center in New York

City. It seems that experienced cancer researcher Dr. Kanematsu

Sugiura repeatedly obtained lengthened survival time in mice with

spontaneous mammary tumors. He also prevented tumors spreading to

the lungs, and obtained temporary stoppage of small tumor growth.

Problem is, he did all of this using laetrile.

 

Dr. Sugiura's work constitutes limited, but nonetheless significant,

findings. Sloan-Ketterling's brass wanted him to shut up about the

whole thing, and declared in press conferences that laetrile had no

value in cancer treatment. Once, Dr. Sugiura was personally

addressed by a reporter, and he most expressly contradicted his

bosses. How did author Ralph Moss know about all this? He was the

number-two Sloan-Ketterling PR man, that's how.

 

My personal view is that laetrile is probably a palliative

treatment. Still, the fact that so many orthodox cancer foundations

want it kept quiet is in itself sufficient reason to look into it

more. Harold Manner, PhD's article in The Mother Earth News

(November/December 1978, pages 17-24) is an excellent resource for

more information.

 

So there most certainly is a wider range of cancer treatment

alternatives than conventional medical sources will allow. Worthy

adjuncts and alternatives to chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical

treatments are unpopular with organized medicine, yet are employed by

far-thinking physicians and self-reliant persons around the world.

Why is this? Because all possibilities need to be considered in

undertaking the treatment of such a serious disease for which there

are far too few survivors.

 

 

Vitamin C

 

It is once again Nobel-prize winning Linus Pauling, PhD plus Ewan

Cameron, MD, a Scottish cancer surgeon, who have demonstrated the

effectiveness of ten grams (10,000 mg) of vitamin C a day in

reversing terminal cancer in thirteen out of 100 patients. These

patients were given up as lost by medical authorities. Thirteen out

of 100 may not seem like a high percentage of success, but keep in

mind that those thirteen are free of the disease as far as can be

determined. None were expected to live. Thirteen is infinitely

greater than zero. All the vitamin C treated patients have lived, on

average, five times as long as controls who did not receive the 10

grams of C. Do not be misled by false media hype against Vitamin C.

A pair of politically-motivated Mayo Clinic studies condemning the

vitamin are seriously faulted. You will want to refer to Drs.

Cameron and Pauling's book, Cancer and Vitamin C, revised edition

(1993) for the full story. There is no substitute for the truth.

 

Of course 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C a day is greatly more than

what

the federal government maintains that an average person needs. A

reading of The Healing Factor by biochemist Irwin Stone (1979) will

explain to you why we need so very much vitamin C, why it should

indeed be normal to consume many grams of the vitamin a day, and why

the lack of C is responsible for our human race's present state of

illness. Irwin Stone, by the way, is the person who first got Dr.

Pauling interested in vitamin C in the first place. For improved

quality and length of life, the key is sufficient quantity of C.

More orange juice just won't do it.

 

Opponents of vitamin C therapy would do well to acknowledge that

Pauling and Cameron's work has been confirmed, perhaps most notably

at Japan's Saga University by Murata and others (Murata, A.,

Morishige, F. and Yamaguchi, H. (1982) Prolongation of survival

times of terminal cancer patients by administration of large doses of

ascorbate. International Journal of Vitamin and Nutrition Research

Suppl., 23, 1982, p. 103-113. Also in Hanck, A., ed. (1982) Vitamin

C: New Clinical Applications. Bern: Huber, 103-113). Dr. Murata

employed over 30,000 mg per day and had even better results with

terminally ill cancer patients. In the words of Dr. Louis Lasagna

(1981) of the University of Rochester Medical School, " It seems

indefensible not to at least try substantial doses of vitamin C in

these patients. "

 

Additional vitamin C vs. cancer references are available through

your local library. Request assistance in locating William

McCormick's papers, especially the blandly-titled but excellent " Have

We Forgotten the Lesson of Scurvy " and " Ascorbic Acid as a

Chemotherapeutic Agent. " Dr. McCormick shows that cancer symptoms

and vitamin C deficiency symptoms overlap. Scurvy, which is obvious

vitamin C deficiency, is traced to medical writings as far back

as1609. The similarity between scurvy and cancer is so great that it

is incredible that billions of dollars of cancer research in the

United States has consistently missed it.

 

Residential treatment for cancer by nutritional means is readily

available in Mexico, just south of the US border in Tijuana. Odd,

isn't it, that Americans have to flee the land of the free and home

of the brave to get freedom of choice in cancer therapy? That's free

trade for you. American medical doctor and nutrition PhD, Frank

Watts, MD, is one of a number of nonconformist physicians who have

employed a therapeutic program which includes 20,000 mg of vitamin C

daily plus Laetrile, vitamin A, vitamin B-complex, and strict

vegetarian diet, among other things. His experience has revealed

that about 70% of 600 terminal cancer patients have responded in some

definite way to the treatment.

 

There are precious few hospital based megavitamin programs available

anywhere in the United States. Government and AMA pressure on

doctors who advocate Laetrile and vitamin therapy is high, research

evidence notwithstanding. This will change, however, if citizens

voice their views to the Food and Drug Administration, the American

Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer

Institute, their lawmakers in Congress and State capitols, and their

own family doctors, and insist on unrestricted freedom of access to

all options, including the unorthodox therapies, for cancer patients

in this country.

 

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