Numerous effective, nontoxic cancer treatments exist with tremendous promise. However, they are perceived as a threat by the mega-billion-dollar cancer establishment! Multinational drug companies and other vested interests don't welcome safe, inexpensive cancer cures because they can't be marketed to reap high profits. The information below highlights important facts about cancer and illustrates how alternative cancer therapies have been kept from the public by the key players in the cancer industry. While only ten therapies are discussed, there are nearly 100 non-toxic or less toxic treatments for cancer.

The myth is that alternative cancer therapists are quacks, unscrupulous, unlicensed, untrained in medicine and just out for a fast buck. The truth is that in a 1984 study reported in the Annals of internal Medicine, Barrie Cas-sileth, PhD et al found that 60 percent of the 138 alternative caner practitioners they investigated were actually medical doctors. Of the remaining 40 per cent, many held doctorates in biology, chemistry or other related sciences and had extensive research backgrounds.

Note: the blacklisting and prohibition of each of the listed therapies occurred in the absence of any complaints or charges from the users of these treatments.

Essiac

In 1922 Rene Caisse, a Canadian nurse, healed thousands of cancer patients.

Dr Charles Brusch, personal physician to the late John F. Kennedy, obtained positive results with Essiac after 10 years of research and cured himself of bowel cancer.

Methods of Suppression: Constant threat of persecution and harassment by Canadian authorities;

Attempts to obtain official approval were thwarted;

In 1938, insufficient votes in Canadian parliament precluded legalization of Essiac;

1982 Health Protection Branch terminated the permit for clinical testing of Essiac, without completion of the studies and deemed that "no clinical evidence exists to support claims that it is an effective treatment for cancer."

Max Gerson Therapy

Regimen has two components: detoxification of wastes and toxins and an intensive nutritional program to flood the body with healing nutrients;

Almost all types of cancer are said to respond to the treatment;

A modified version of the Gerson Therapy showed that cachexia (wasting away) can be prevented or delayed, less need for analgesics, slower progression of existing liver metastases, and less risk of complications.

Method of Suppression: Dr Gerson was persecuted and harassed by the medical establishment for years;

He was attacked in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association for treating cancer patients with diet therapy;

He was expelled from the New York Medical Society and deprived of his hospital affiliations;

Therapy was blacklisted and featured on the American Cancer Society's (ACS) Unproven Methods list;

The Gerson Therapy can only be administered in Tijuana, Mexico.

Immuno-Augmentative Therapy (IAT)

IAT is a two-step procedure consisting of an evaluation to measure deficiencies of blood proteins, followed by injections of cytokines (immune substances) that augment immune system functioning and shrink tumors;

Reportedly, 50 to 60 percent of patients experience tumor reduction; many undergo long-term regression; some achieve complete remission;

Many treated cases of metastatic cancer of colon and abdomen are now well beyond five years of recovery;

Eleven IAT-treated patients with advanced mesothe-lioma achieved survival rates two to three times greater than those of the traditional therapies.

Methods of Suppression: Even after Dr Burton demonstrated how his therapy could shrink tumors, the ACS still placed IAT on the Unproven Methods blacklist;

Burton's research funding was cut–this included a grant from the US Public Health Service;
Professional journals refused to publish any more of his papers;

In 1977 he was forced to relocate to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, to continue treating patients;

NCI continued attempts to shut down the new clinic–they succeeded in 1985 by bringing false charges against him;

Burton filed lawsuits against the NCI and the Centre for Disease Control; his Bahamian clinic was reopened eight months later.

Laetrile (Amygdalin)

A concentrated extract of amygdalin made from apricot kernels;

Dr Kanematsu Suigiura showed that laetrile had a substantial effect on inhibiting the growth of secondary tumors in mice;

Laetrile can produce a 60 percent reduction in lung metastases;

Ralph Moss reported that about 20 experiments completed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center produced positive results.

Source: alive #209, March 2000