Unless you’re just starting to explore the natural approach to taking care of your health, you’ve likely heard of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the pioneering Houston cancer specialist. Dr. Burzynski discovered substances normally present in the blood of cancer-free individuals that are not present in the blood of individuals suffering from cancer.
By giving injections of these safe natural substances, which he named “anti-neoplastons,” to individuals with cancer, he observed cures of many types of cancers in a significantly higher percentage of cases than achieved with conventional surgery, radiation, and chemotherapeutic techniques (sometimes known as the “cut, burn, and poison” approaches). He found anti-neoplastons especially effective against brain cancers, and helped to achieve cures in some brain cancers considered “uncurable” by conventional medical means.
However, Dr. Burzynski’s natural cancer cures would probably have been much more welcome in Communist-dominated Poland—whence he emigrated in 1970—than they have been here in “the land of the free,” these United States of America, where he was under continuous legal attack from both the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners and los federales at the FDA from the mid-1980s into the late 1990s.
Los federales denied they were trying to imprison and penalize Dr. Burzynski for curing cancer (at one point, Dr. Burzynski faced 290 years in prison and $18.9 million in fines) by using the lame, transparent excuse that he was “shipping ‘unapproved’ substances [cancer-curing anti-neoplastons] in interstate commerce.”
But it was obvious to all that los federales were acting—as they have innumerable times in the 20th and into the 21st centuries—as the police force suppressing competition for its giant clients, the patent medicine (“pharmaceutical”) companies, as stated openly by a “top” official of los federales:
“I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances.”
—Dr. Richard J. Crout,
Director, Bureau of Drugs, FDA
Quoted in The Spotlight,
January 18, 1982
And of course, Dr. Burzynski is a lone individual with limited resources, making it very difficult for him to pay the average $800 million cost involved in “approval” of any “drug” (whether an un-natural patentable molecule or a natural substance termed a “drug”) by los federales.
But that’s enough from me. In 1997, the book The Burzynski Breakthrough by Thomas D. Elias gave us much more detail about Dr. Burzynski’s cancer cures and his prosecution/persecution by los federales. And in 2010, filmmaker Eric Merola released the exceptionally-well-documented but very understandable film, Burzynski: the Movie, which added additional details about the attempted (literal) theft of Dr. Burzynski’s work by a federal agency! The film is now available on DVD at http://burzynskimovie.com. Here are some excerpts from reviews of the movie:
“…a stoic victim of patent fraud, government harassment, and scientific sabotage…No one seems to contest the efficacy of his treatment; the problem…is a pharmaceutical industry with nothing to gain—and much to lose—from the introduction of a highly successful, non-toxic competitor to chemotherapy and radiation.”
—Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times, June 4, 2010
“Eric Merola’s “Burzynski” charts how a Texas medical doctor and biochemist developed Antineoplastons…only to bring down the full force of the medical establishment, which has laid assault to him in the most stupefying, devious, and costly manner.”
—Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2010
“Anyone dealing with cancer or side effects of treatment must see this.”
—Tony Robbins, Twitter, September 14, 2010
The movie also documents beyond a doubt a little-known aspect of los federales’ anti-Burzynski campaign—attempts by another agency of los federales to patent the use of one of the anti-neoplastons (developed and described years before by Dr. Burzynski) for themselves! Had they been successful, this agency would have collected millions, perhaps tens of millions of dollars by “legally” stealing Dr. Burzynski’s work. Some observers view this as a possibly major motivation for the protracted anti-Burzynski persecution/prosecution.
As there are no love scenes, car chases, shoot-em-ups, explosions, or any other attention-grabbing devices common to popular movies in Burzynski: The Movie, some critics accused it of being boring, or of “trampling the eyes” (the New York Times). But for those interested in an actual cancer cure, and for who may not believe the lengths to which los federales will go to suppress it or steal it, Burzynski: The Movie is a riveting, very convincing documentary. Highly recommended!
Special thanks to Julian Whitaker M.D., who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Dr. Burzynski’s defense, to Richard Jaffe, Esq., who conducted the successful legal defense, and to Dr. Burzynski’s thousands of successfully treated patients and their families, who banded together in Dr. Burzynski’s defense, both in Texas and Washington D.C., testifying before Congressional committees.
