Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Offit Paul A

Author:Offit, Paul A. [Offit, Paul A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

• “In early 1979, Steve Hipp got the dreaded news,” said Rivera. “Steve had cancer. His doctor in Michigan summed it up this way: ‘We were waiting for him to exit.’ Steve’s doctor recently confirmed to 20/20 that his tumor has shrunk.”

• “Al Swazeland is from Canada,” said Rivera. “In late 1978, Al discovered that he had bladder cancer. Six operations later, his only chance was removal of his bladder, which meant he would need a urine bag in his abdomen for the rest of his life. Al just informed us that as of now he has no active tumors.”

• “Jocelyn Chancey’s inoperable breast cancer had spread to her bones,” said Rivera. “I talked to about fifteen doctors and the consensus was that she was terminal,” said her husband. But like Steve Hipp and Al Swazeland, Jocelyn Chancey had had a miraculous response to antineoplastons. “Jocelyn Chambers’s bone scan shows that she is in partial remission,” said Rivera, “and a more recent bone scan shows further improvement.” “I sleep good at night,” said Jocelyn.

Only four years after Stanislaw Burzynski had opened the Burzynski Research Institute, he was curing patients with no hope of a cure. Still, antineoplastons hadn’t entered the mainstream. Rivera knew why. “There is a cancer establishment,” he said, “and it’s basically divided into two parts. One is our most lavishly funded government health agency. It’s called the National Cancer Institute. The other is our wealthiest private charity, the American Cancer Society. To critics, their combined function has a stranglehold effect, creating a kind of monopoly on cancer research and information.” According to Rivera, cancer doctors weren’t sympathetic caretakers; they were ruthless businessmen. “Cancer is not just a disease,” he said; “it’s a political and economic phenomenon, a $30-billion-a-year business”—one that apparently had no intention of including the likes of Stanislaw Burzynski. “If somebody were able to bring some new, innovative idea into the fight against cancer,” Burzynski told Rivera, “then finally the American public will ask the big institutions, ‘What are you doing with all this money? Where are your results?’ Finally, they would have to answer to the American public!”

The Burzynski miracle marched on. Seven-year-old Dustin Kunnari received antineoplastons for a brain tumor; six weeks later, the tumor was gone. Tori Moreno’s advanced brain cancer was gone in five months. Antineoplastons had also cured the brain tumors of Pamela Winningham, Crystin Schiff, Zachary McConnell, and Thomas Wellborn. And they had cured Randy Goss’s kidney cancer.

In 1995, Harry Smith, of CBS This Morning, brought several patients cured by antineoplastons onto his show. “It’s like cancer never happened to me,” said Neal Dublinsky, of Los Angeles. “Houston was the city where my life was saved.” In 2001, Thomas Elias wrote The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It. Elias told the story of Burzynski’s persecution by the medical establishment. And he told the stories of patients who had been saved by antineoplastons despite the best efforts of cancer specialists to ignore the miracle in front of them.

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