From John Scudamore <whale@enterprise.net> at just me
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:24:21 +0000
Newsgroups: misc.kids.health
>From: (Rob van Albada)
>To lure people to "alternatives" is irresponsible at the least, if it succeeds it is tantamount to murder.
>Regards, Rob.
What drivel.
"We chose to believe those doctors. We turned our little girl's life
over to them ... so they could experiment with her. They never had any
intention of saving her life. To them she was already dead." –Ric &
Paula Schiff.
Just two alternative doctors:
Dr John Diamond, M.D. & Lee Cowden, M.D.:
1.) In Feb 1994, Dustin Kaufman, aged 2 ½, was diagnosed with a highly
aggressive form of brain tumour known as medulloblastoma. Three
quarters of the tumor was surgically removed, but the remaining portion
was inoperable. Dustin's doctors encouraged his parents to enroll
Dustin in a study at the University of Minnesota to test various
regimens of chemotherapy followed by radiation. This therapy had "a
success rate of 20-40%," according to a resident pediatric oncologist,
whom we shall call Dr. A. They were also told that the therapy might
enable Dustin to live another 5 years, but that he would likely end up
in a wheelchair, with stunted growth and learning disabilities.
when the Kaufmanns asked for names of parents whose children had
undergone the treatment, no names could be provided. Then they asked to
talk with parents of any child treated for brain cancer at the
University of Minnesota, but no names came back. The 20-40% success rate
began to look like a sham. Knowing it was possible that Dustin could die
or end up severely debilitated by conventional treatment, the parents
began seeking alterna-tives. They left the university offices without
signing the consent form for Dustin's participation in the experimental
program.
A few weeks later, returning to pick up Dustin's medical records, they
were ushered into a room for an unscheduled conference with Dr A. and 2
other members of the pediatric oncology department (including its
chair-man), 2 interns, and a social worker. The doctors told the
Kaufmanns that their opinions take precedence over parents' opinions and
that the doctors might have to ask the courts to allow them to start
treatment on Dustin, regardless of what the parents wanted for him.
As a result of their independent research, the Kaufmanns had heard that
many brain cancer patients were having good results with the
anti-neoplaston treatment of Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., in Houston,
Texas. when they mentioned this to Dr. A., she said their chances of
success with antineoplastons were zero; at the same time, Dr A. admitted
she had noth-ing to support her contention.
Undaunted, the Kaufmanns started Dustin on antineoplastons in April
1994. About 6 weeks later, MU (magnetic resonance imagery) scans
re-vealed that the tumor had undergone a complete remission. Dustin
stayed on Dr. Burzynski's treatment for 1 year, and felt healthy and
robust during this time. When a subsequent MRI showed that the tumor had
returned, Dustin's dose of antineoplastons was increased, leading to a
second remis-sion-an outcome unheard of in orthodox medicine. Dustin's
most recent MRI, taken on january 6,1996, showed only a tiny fragment,
probably scar tissue from the vanished tumour.
2.) Sometimes the cancer industry authorities prevent patients from
even reaching the office. In 1995, Adrian Chavez, aged 6, of Contra
Costa, California. had a recurrence of leukemia. Doctors at Children's
Hospital in Oakland re-sumed his chemotherapy, but when Adrian's white
blood cell count contin-ued to increase (an indication that his leukemia
was getting worse), the mother took Adrian to an expert herbalist.
A doctor called Adrian's mother the next week and demanded that she
bring him in the next day When she refused, a sheriff's deputy and a
Children Protective Services worker went to her home and forcibly took
Adrian to Children's Hospital and forced him to undergo
chemotherapy-against the mother's and the child's wishes. According to
an Associated Press report, "In general, the agency will take sick
children from their homes if doctors warn their lives are in danger.
The danger here is the cancer industry's unchallenged status as the
treat-ment of first and only resort.
3.) Another example of how local medical au-thorities can shut down a
respected cancer doctor because he has tried something innovative is the
case of Sharon Smith, a 40 year-old woman diag-nosed with breast cancer
that had metastasized to the bone. All conventional cancer treatments
had failed, and she had been told nothing more could be done. This
dismal prognosis left her little choice but to seek out alternatives to
chemotherapy and radiation.
In October of 1993, she went to Lawrence H. Taylor, M.D., an
al-ternative medical practitioner based in San Diego, California. Dr
Taylor treated her with his multifaceted program and intravenous
administration of "Immunostim" (also known as 714), a nontoxic
combination of ammonium compounds, camphor; phos-phors and salts of
silicate, all of which have been used in medicine for years. None are
individually on the FDA's restricted drugs list, although 7 14X is not
FDA approved. Based on his clinical observations, Dr Taylor estimated
that 80% of his patients under-went at least partial remissions
(mea-surable reductions in tumor size) af-ter taking Immunostim.
After showing some signs of re-lapse in December, Sharon then re-turned
to Dr. Taylor's clinic and re-ceived her second series of treatments in
January; 1994. Sharon's X rays at this time revealed that her cancer had
stopped spreading to the bones. She had gained weight, her appetite was
improved, and her pain was gone. "Her oncologist looked at the X rays,
saw that the tumors were getting smaller; that her pain was gone and
appetite had returned," says Dr. Taylor "He told her something was
definitely going on, though he did not quite understand why she was
im-proving She told him about the linmunostim and other treatments, but
he was incredulous."
In March of 1994, however; the city police of San Diego raided and
closed Dr. Taylor's offices. Meanwhile, Sharon's oncologist called the
office for more Inntnunostim, but none was available, since authorities
had confiscated his drugs and refused to release any of the medicine she
had been using Despite petitions by Sharon's attorney and oncologist to
obtain more Immunostim, all requests were denied. The oncologist then
issued a request to study Immunostim at a local university, but the
inquiry came too late for Sharon. Within 2 weeks of being denied her
nontoxic medicines, Sharon be-came increasingly fatigued and began to
lose her appetite. Six months after the shutting down of Dr. Taylor's
practice, Sharon died.
While no one can tell whether Immunostim would have saved Sharon's life,
her greatly improved condition under the Immunostim treatment, followed
by her deteri-oration when it was withdrawn, attests to the pow-er of
this alternative therapy. "There was definite evidence of remission
before her Immunostim was taken away," says Dr. Taylon "Her dramatic
improvement in health, together with the objec-tive reduction in tumor
size, suggest that Sharon would have continued to improve under our
care."
Sharon's case is a tragic example of how the politics of cancer can
threaten patients' lives. Nontoxic medicines, despite their clinical
efficacy as attested to in thousands of testimonials, are considered
"dangerous" and "unproven" by the medical establishment. Meanwhile, the
highly tox-ic medicines that are killing cancer patients re-main the
only officially sanctioned treatment and, as such, continue to receive
virtually all the re-search funding. "The main reason we don't see
research on nontoxic agents is that they're non-patentable, so they
represent no profit to the phar-maceutical industry," says Dn Taylon
"Human greed continues to perpetuate a great deal of death and misery;
Cancer is the medical profession's most lucrative business, and most
oncologists aim to keep it that way." As a result of his use of
Immunostim and under FDA pressure, Dr Taylor's California medical
license was revoked in February 1996.
4.) Here's a scenario with implications the cancer industry prefers not
to discuss. In the summer of 1994, Billy Best, aged 16, caught the
na-tion's attention by running away from home to avoid chemotherapy for
his Hodgkin's disease. For 1 year Billy re-ceived alternative cancer
treatment consisting of a healthy diet, Essiac herbs, and a therapy
called 714X, given as Injections. At the end.of that year, Billy was
cancer free.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, a major authority
on conventional cancer treatments, was clearly embarrassed by the media
atten-tion that followed. They issued a state-ment trying to downplay
the implications of Billy's outcome. Declaring that Billy had no
evidence of cancer according to CT scans and other diagnostic tests,
they called his recovery a case of spontaneous remission.62 What was
embarrassing was that the Institute and other chemothera-py centers had
long cited Hodgkin's dis-ease as a perfect example ----the real fact is
that Hodgkin's is one of a very few ex-amples-of chemotherapy's success.
Billy Best thought differently, and proba-bly owes his life to having
rejected con-ventional medicine.
Dr Whitaker, M.D.:
5.) A Little Girl's Battle With the Cancer Industry
Ric and Paula Schiff are living a nightmare. On January 21, 1992,
their four-year-old daughter, Cryssie, was found to have a malignant
rhabdoid tumor in her brain and spinal cord, the most deadly of all
childhood cancers. Cryssie underwent immediate surgery at the University
of California at San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF), and a large
section of tumor was removed. All involved knew this wasn't a cure, It
was done to buy Cryssie some time.
The Options: "Cryssie will die with or without therapy"
Cryssie's parents were then given only two options: They could take
their daughter home and nurse her until she died, or agree to massive
doses of radiation and chemotherapy that might stop the tumor for a
short time but would severely damage her. In either case, Cryssie would
likely die in less than a year.
The parents asked almost every oncologist at UCSF if there was any
other therapy that offered a remote possibility of benefit. Each doctor
told them "no," and folks, that simply wasn't true.
As I reported last month, Stanislaw Burzynski, a medical doctor in
Houston, has discovered and
developed a powerful non-toxic treatment for cancer, called
antineoplastons. It has brought on complete remission in many cancers,
including the most deadly brain cancers. Many UCSF physicians, including
Dr. Michael Prados, head of the oncology department, knew of this
therapy, but did not mention it to the Schiffs when they asked.
Unfortunately, Ric and Paula trusted the doctors at UCSF, and over
the next six months, Cryssie
received the maximum dose of radiation and three toxic
chemotherapies. During that time, Cryssie's father Ric, a police
sergeant at Mission Station in San Francisco, researched their options
on his own, and found out about Dr. Burzynski's therapy. When he asked
Dr. Prados about it, Dr. Prados quietly but vehemently stated that it
did not work, and that it would be a waste of money.
Antineoplastons Put Her Tumor in Remission
However, the Schiffs, who were now horrified by the suffering
Cryssie endured during six months of conventional therapy, took Cryssie
to Dr. Burzynski, and she was started on antineoplastons.
Miraculously, Cryssie's malignant cancer did not come back as the
medical staff at UCSF expected, which was cause for consternation among
them.
They had counted on Cryssie's dying, because her type of cancer had
never responded to any treatment for long. With Cryssie in remission,
they were forced to watch the effects of their toxic therapies eat away
at a four-year-old girl.
Cryssie Was Terribly Sick -- But Not From Cancer
Cryssie's parents had found a cure for their little girl's cancer.
But there was no cure for 10,000 rads of x-ray to her still-developing
brain and spinal cord, or the chemotherapy poisons they infused into her
30-pound body. Ric described their effect in the P.O.A. Notebook, the
San Francisco Police Officers' Association monthly newsletter:
"I will never be able to communicate what we put Cryssie through.
The horrible sickness from her
chemotherapy and radiation made her so ill, most of us would have
given up our lives just from the pain. We stole her hair, her sight,
and in the end her ability to walk and talk."
Incredibly, with each hospitalization for a slew of problems, Dr.
Prados and others kept insisting that she was dying from cancer, and
her parents kept correcting them, pointing out that according to the
MRI scans done at UCSF, there was no cancer.
All of Cryssie's problems stemmed entirely from the chemotherapy
and radiation.
When They Stopped the Antineoplastons, the Cancer Returned
On December 1, 1994, almost two years after diagnosis, and after 18
months on the antineoplastons, Cryssie's parents, thinking that the
tumor would stay in remission, stopped the antineoplastons. By
Christmas, however, the cancer had come back with a vengeance. The MRI
of Cryssie's brain showed innumerable ominous white specks indicative
of a rapidly growing tumor.
UCSF Still Opposed Antineoplaston Treatment
Dr. Prados told the Schiffs that as their daughter would now surely
die, he wanted to try a new
chemotherapeutic agent. Ric and Paula asked about restarting the
antineoplastons. This therapy had stopped the tumor for 18 months, with
no toxicity at all. Why not a second try?
Dr. Prados was even more opposed than when first asked. He insisted
to Ric and Paula that it would be a waste of time and money. Rick
wasn't about to let anyone infuse poison into his little girl again,
but realized he had to make a deal with Prados, so that Prados would
not refuse to order the necessary MRIs to monitor the cancer growth.
Again the Antineoplastons Worked in Only Three Weeks
Ric told Dr. Prados that if there was no response to the
antineoplastons in three weeks, he would
consent to using the chemotherapy. After three weeks back on the
antineoplastons, the cancer had
receded about 20%, and six weeks later, the tumor was gone again!
I can't tell you how miraculous this was. First, we are discussing
one of the most malignant cancers known -- one in which survivors are
rare, much less a case in which the tumor went into complete remission.
Second, it is widely accepted that if a cancer therapy has a positive
effect once, it will not work a second time if the tumor starts to grow
again, as it did in Cryssie's case.
When Cryssie's MRIs were put up on the view box at UCSF, awestruck
physicians gaped in disbelief, as if they were seeing a little girl who
had risen from the dead! Yet, demonstrating the perversity of modern
medical research and education, not one doctor even called Burzynski to
find out more about his therapy! Moreover, Cryssie wasn't the first
brain cancer patient at UCSF to have been cured by antineoplaston
therapy.
UCSF Doctors Had Seen It Succeed Twice Before...
As I mentioned, Dr. Michael Prados, head of the oncology
department, and many of the other physicians on the UCSF oncology
staff, had seen antineoplastons work miracles before -- twice before, in
fact.
"After surgery, we were presented with two choices, no therapy and let
her die, or chemotherapy and radiation. When we asked if there was
anything else we could do, they told us 'no, not that we know of.' As
it turns out they were lying.
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