what do you think, a doctor cures some forms of Cancer but Pharma & FDA try to prevent his work?

[David]

http://www.facebook.com/l/64a7c8K5RrPwG3...26id%3D110
ignore date you can still watch it for free
Didn't say I agree with it, it was a Question, if you were hanging off a cliff and i reached down to pull you up, would you ask to see if I have been on a rescue course & passed, or would you want me to rescue you.
\What you clearly stated was how many had died, what you did not state is how many are still alive after his treatments, please when dealing with something like cancer certain people are gonna die, get 2 people same build and everything on a race track one will beat the other every time, loads of cures and things have been discovered by accident, not always by experts in their own fields. think theres 2 sides to a coin, oh + the rim thats 3.

[Maxtrong]

It's always been true. They want to treat it but not cure it. If its cured they don't make money selling prescriptions

[lo_mcg]

What do I think? I think you've watched one video and neglected to do any further research.

The FDA is not suppressing Stanislaw Burzynski's cancer treatment; nor is anyone else.

But many knowledgeable people are, quite rightly, challenging it - because it is not proven.

Burzynski claims to be able to cure cancer using extracts of human urine. He is an MD; however he had no specialty training in cancer and had no preclinical or clinical cancer research experience when he announced his 'cure for cancer' 35 years ago.

His ''antineoplastons" - the substances he has isolated from human urine which he claims cure cancer - have not been shown to have any effect on cancer; attempts to replicate his claimed results by the National Cancer Institute, the Japanese National Cancer Institute and Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals failed.

This is from Orac's Respectful Insolence blog:

''...Dr. Burzynski first gained fame for his antineoplastons back in 1988, when Sally Jesse Raphael featured four "miracle" patients of Burzynski, who, according to her, had had incurable cancer and failed conventional therapies but were then cancer-free, thanks to Dr. Burzynski. Unfortunately, four years later in 1992, Inside Edition followed up these four patients:

'In 1992, "Inside Edition" reported that two of the four patients had died and a third was having a recurrence of her cancer. (The fourth patient had bladder cancer, which has a good prognosis.) The widow of one of Raphael's guests stated that her husband and five others from the same city had sought treatment after learning about Burzynski from a television broadcast -- and that all had died of their disease. In 1995, a federal grand jury indicted Burzynski for mail fraud and marketing an unapproved drug. The indictment charged that he had billed insurance companies using procedure codes for chemotherapy, even though his treatment was not chemotherapy. He was tried in 1997 but not convicted.' ''

This link describes an attempt at independent replication of Burzynski's claims; all nine patient died before the study closed, eight of them because of cancer progression:

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/con...48c199f2aa

And this excellent article is well worth a read before you start claiming that a miracle cancer cure has been discovered and suppressed

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela...nski1.html

...and it's free to read, today and every day! Not enough that Burzynski's 'cure' is hellish expensive, you even have to pay to watch the video about it.

[JLI]

Stanislaw Burzynski treats patients at a private clinic using what he terms antineoplastons, mixtures of peptides, amino acids, and other simple organic substances that are said to promote the body’s natural defenses against cancer. Although he has published several studies of his own, these are of a rather unclear design.
And it isn’t cheap either. Generally, Burzynski's patients pay a $6,000 deposit before beginning treatment. Technically, the drug itself is free because it's only used under Phase II trials, but patients pay for incidentals, including consultations, supplies and classes on how to administer the drug. This runs about $7,500-$9,000 a month — out of pocket.

In 1998, Paul Goldberg, editor of The Cancer Letter, a D.C.-based newsletter covering cancer research and drug approval, investigated Burzynski's claims up to that point. He asked three renowned and independent researchers to examine Burzynski's scientific protocols — all three said they could not make sense of the data, saying it did not resemble any commonly accepted models. The article is shown unedited here: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRela...nski2.html It is not enough to be persecuted to be a genius. You also have to be right.

A Phase II trial in glioma conducted under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/con...48c199f2aa was halted due to poor accrual, after Burzynski failed to agree with the investigators on possible expansion of the eligibility criteria. Nine patients were accrued, six of whom were able to be evaluated for response. There were no objective responses, and all six showed evidence of tumor progression after treatment durations of between 16 to 66 days. The mean time to treatment failure (progression or discontinuation due to toxicity) was 29 days. All nine patients died before the study closed, all but one death being due to tumor progression. Although the authors of the article claimed that the small sample size precluded "definitive conclusions," the results of the patients in the trial are clearly extremely disappointing.

And there are lots of reasons why the establishment really want to find a cure. Here are some of them:
1) Owners/employees (And their love ones) of pharmaceutical companies suffer from cancer too.
2) Researchers wouldn't be able to keep their mouth shut if they found a miraculous cure or even a major breakthrough.
3) Progress in cancer treatment is happening even though not as fast as we all would like to. Some cancers are even easily cured.
4) Pharmaceutical companies wouldn't lose money for finding a cure - They would increase their income considerably, because people will still get cancer.
5) Also members of governments (and their love ones) sometimes get cancer.

On the internet there are many claims of miraculous "natural" cancer cures that are being suppressed. Here some of them are listed, with links to sites explaining what is wrong with them: http://anaximperator.wordpress.com/2011/...which-one/

Edit to add:
[Didn't say I agree with it, it was a Question, ]
Nine out of ten times people are asking this sort of question, they are in reality making a statement, and agree with those who accept these quackery cancer therapies. When reviewing the advice you have given on this board: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...627AA9yAAF you certainly do come across as a proponent of this idea. Not as someone who is doing research.

[What you clearly stated was how many had died...] No - It was a reference to a journalistic followup on 4 patients, who in 1988 were selected by Burzynski and presented as successes (cured patents). We will never know the true number of deaths, because Burzynski is not reporting them.

[..loads of cures and things have been discovered by accident,]
As explained, this therapy has been given a fair chance at independent replication. And it failed.

[thinkingtime]

That's a dubious site and the doctor is a quack.

[Debra D]

This conspiracy theory that cancer can be cured but evil forces are making sure it doesn't get to people with cancer has been around for years. The same people who criticize doctors and pharmaceutical companies for being greedy are the same people that offer Alternative Treatments that cost a fortune and cost cancer patients their lives.

[Flizbap 2.0]

The FDA has a budget of less than 4 billion and is expected to oversee over a TRILLION dollars worth of goods and services.

They don't have the power to suppress anything.