Do You Believe in Magic by Paul A. Offit

Author:Paul A. Offit [Offit, Paul A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

Stanislaw Burzynski was born in Poland in 1943. By the time he had graduated from the Medical Academy of Lublin, in 1967, he had published fourteen papers, a remarkable accomplishment. The following year he received a PhD for his thesis, titled “Investigations on Amino Acids and Peptides in Blood Serum of Healthy People and Patients with Chronic Renal Insufficiency.” Burzynski had an idea. He believed that patients with long-standing kidney disease didn’t get cancer as often as people with normal kidneys. And he believed the answer could be found in their urine. Burzynski reasoned that patients with kidney disease didn’t get cancer because, unlike people with normal kidneys, they didn’t excrete certain lifesaving substances that had an anti-cancer effect; he called these substances antineoplastons (literally, “against new growth”). Burzynski believed that if he could isolate these cancer-preventing peptides from the urine of healthy people, he could cure cancer.

After completing a residency in internal medicine in Poland, Burzynski traveled to Baylor Medical College, in Houston, where he rose from research associate in the department of anesthesiology to assistant professor. In 1974, he isolated a series of peptides (strands of amino acids smaller than proteins) that inhibited the growth of bone cancer cells in the laboratory. The National Cancer Institute, intrigued by his findings, gave him a three-year grant, which resulted in six publications—the last of which defined his life’s calling. “According to our definition,” he wrote, “antineoplastons are substances provided by the living organism that protect it against development of neoplastic growth [without] significantly inhibiting the growth of normal tissues.” This was a major breakthrough. At last, cancer victims would no longer suffer the tortures of radiation and chemotherapy. They could be treated with antineoplastons, a natural product without side effects. The National Cancer Institute didn’t see it that way, failing to immediately renew Burzynski’s grant.

When he lost his funding, Baylor administrators gave Burzynski a choice. He could either stay in the department of anesthesiology and do research consistent with its goals (which weren’t curing cancer) or he could leave. Burzynski left, renting a 2,500-square-foot garage in Houston that later became the Burzynski Research Institute. His first task was to isolate large quantities of antineoplastons. So in the heat of the Houston summer, Stanislaw Burzynski collected more than a hundred gallons of urine from public restrooms and local prisoners. From this he isolated antineoplastons that he called AS2.1 and A10.

Although Burzynski had no specific training in cancer, the FDA granted him permission to test antineoplastons in small clinical trials. He had no shortage of patients, including those with advanced cancers of the brain, colon, pancreas, breast, prostate, rectum, lung, kidney, and bladder—cancers so far gone, the medical establishment had given up on them, cancers that were a death sentence for their sufferers. But Stanislaw Burzynski wasn’t giving up. He had faith in the power of antineoplastons.

In 1979, Gary Null, a popular critic of mainstream medicine, wrote an article in Penthouse titled “The Suppression of Cancer Cures.” Null told the story of a sixty-three-year-old man with lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain.

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