An alleged "cure" for cancer

You don't have to believe me. You just need to read both sides of the argument before you go buying into a quack cure that hasn't been proven to save any lives.

Tell you what, if you get cancer, you eat all the apricot seeds you want. Just don't go telling others to do the same thing till they've read both sides of that argument and looked at the real results. Like I said, laetrile isn't new at all. And if it worked like the magic cure its touters want to believe it is, it would be used widely around the world. It isn't. That's not my opinion. That's fact.

much as it pains me, I'm going to have to agree with birdgirl (J/K). I remember reading about this back in the late 80's and I have to believe that if it held any merit we would have heard more about it.

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exactly bird girl, I think I would rather trust my life to my oncologist than some dried fruit.

Reb, I've always wondered on your Hodgkin's. Are you considered "cured"? Has it been five years yet? Or are you considered in remission?

remission actually, for about 3 years now. Though the tests still happen. But the longer im good the less I have to go

Yey for remission! Here's to five years. Then 10. Then 50 and 75. Actually, I think that's a shoe-in. Childhood Hodgkins has one of the best cure rates there is. Thank goodness for that!

Yeah thats what the doctor said when I was first diagnosed. He said, "Theres good news and bad news, the bad news is your daughter has stage 3 Hodgekins lymphoma. The good nbews is that the cure rate is strong and growing.". Lucky for me haha.I still had to have chemo and radiation for 3 years though.

Lobotomies used to be accepted as a cure for many maladies. We now know that to be wrong, and that it did more harm than good. The same will eventually be found of present day cancer cures. But don't take my word for it. The truth is the cure for cancer was found decades ago by a man named Royal Rife. Don't believe it if you don't want to, but the facts are verifiable.
As to why millions of people aren't using it now is simple; money. But I won't go into details. If you want to know about the medical racket a good place to start is here:
The Medical Racket
Verify the references at the bottom of the page to see if the author of this paper is truthful with his facts. I'm sure you'll find that he is.
Here are some telling quotes from Nobel prize winning doctors. Verify them if you do not believe it.

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"Everybody should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud, and that the NCI and the ACS are derelict in their duties to the American people who support them." - Linus Pauling 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances," and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

"(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity)."

"The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer." - James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, and 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for that discovery and related work.

"The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, discoverer of vitamins C and P, 1937 Nobel Prize ," for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process, with special reference to Vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid."

"The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice." - Dr. David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for, "their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell."

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The American Cancer Societyâ??s Unproven Methods in Cancer Management is the cancer industryâ??s black list. People who are listed in that book can pretty much consider their career finished. The people on that list go to prison, get shot at, have their licenses revoked, that sort of thing. The ACS is an integral part of the racket.

Ralph Moss is the most conservative writer on alternative cancer methods working today. He has a doctorate in biochemistry, and was a science writer for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was originally a big believer in chemotherapy and the war on cancer. He gradually became disillusioned, and when Sloan-Kettering essentially lied about their research results with Laetrile, Moss called a press conference in 1977 to publicize the positive Laetrile results by one of the world's most respected cancer researchers, Kanematsu Sugiura, who did his research at Sloan-Kettering. Although silenced by his employers, Sugiura never backed down from his findings. Sloan-Kettering fired Moss the next day.[196] Although Moss has written extensively about Sloan-Kettering in his subsequent work, I have never seen or heard of Moss uttering a bitter word about Sloan-Kettering.

In chapter six of The Cancer Industry, Moss dismembered the ACS' Unproven Methods blacklist, and he did it like the gentleman he is. As with the best critiques of such things, Moss lets the ACS hang themselves with their own rope. The ACS used to call their Unproven Methods Committee the "Committee on Quackery." Their descriptions of those practitioners of those â??unproven methodsâ?� include, "ignorant, uneducated, misguided persons, to highly educated scientists who are out of their area of competence supporting a particular form of treatment. A few hold Ph.D. or M.D. degrees."[197] Then Moss analyzed the credentials of those on the Unproven Methods list, and found that 77% of them have either M.D.s, often from major medical schools, or scientific doctorates. Moss dryly summarizes the ACS position on the credentials of those on the black list, "Recall, however, that the ACS primer on unproven methods states that 'a few' hold M.D. or Ph.D. degrees; a few in this case is 77%."[198]

It does not get any better for the ACS and its list. The Unproven Methods list calls to mind the Inquisition's Index. The list is one of the most concrete indicators of the racket's existence. In one Unproven Methods list, of sixty-three methods on the list, 44% of them were not investigated at all by any independent agency before making the list. In 11% of the cases, the investigative results were positive.[199] In only one case that I am aware of, was an Unproven Method subject to a medical double-blind study, which is the only way, according to the medical establishment's own rules, that it could be proven or disproven (something that the orthodox treatments have never really been subject to).[200] In that case, with laetrile, the trial was arguably rigged.

Here is the classic Catch-22. If they never test an Unproven Method, there is no chance that the treatment could ever be proven, according to their standards. Then states pass laws outlawing the use of an Unproven Method, and about ten states have criminal laws where the doctor can go to jail for even recommending it to a patient. That is why I call it a racket. It is designed so that there never can be any competition to cut-burn-poison methods of cancer "treatment." It is a totally insulated racket, engaging in circular logic to wipe out the threat of an actual cure appearing on the scene, and the United States is called a free nation.

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I admit, the truth is hard to swallow. That's why nothing will ever change.

I hate hearing these kinds of things where they say cures have been discovered. It confuses me because there is really no way for me to know which is true. On one hand i wouldnt put it past the drug companies to lie about certain cures but on the other hand, I know for sure that some people are cured by these companies drugs. I just dont know what im gonna do if i ever get cancer.