With an accout for my. A biochemist and physician, Burzynski has sold and administers chemicals with alleged anti- cancer activity and which he calls " antineoplastons " since ; clinical efficacy of these treatments has not been be demonstrated and several fatal side effects have occurred. During the same year he identified naturally occurring metabolites and peptides in the human body which he concluded control cancer growth.
He found that there is a marked deficiency of these peptides in cancer patients. The following year, , he earned his Ph. His Ph. From to , while a researcher and Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, his research was sponsored and partially funded by the National Cancer Institute. At Baylor, he authored and co-authored 16 publications, including five concerning his research on peptides and their effect on human cancer.
Burzynski named these peptides antineoplastons due to their alleged activity in correcting and normalizing neoplastic, or cancerous, cells. In May , Dr. In May Burzynski founded his clinic in Houston where he's since treated over 8, patients. He is also the president of the Burzynski Research Institute, where he continues research on antineoplastons.
Burzynski funds his own trials, partly through patient fees. Most of Dr. Burzynski's patients no longer qualify for atineoplaston therapy. He now also employs "personalized medicine" that utilizes wide variants drug combinations including chemotherapy. These drug cocktails are suspected to be dangerous. Burzynski supporters adamantly believe he is the victim of an austere and corrupt medical establishment.
In a two-part documentary film "Burzynski: The Movie," Dr. Burzynski is portrayed as a visionary whose drugs and treatments are lifesaving, but the scope of his benevolence is limited due to the corruption and greed saturating the government and medical community.
After Dr. I have spent the monthly cost for investment and am happy with the results noted. Request: Would you please increase the respectful part of your dialogue? Including complying with your own guidelines for comments and eliminating some of the abusive vocabulary, please. Respectfully, Douglas Kruse Jr. Houston, TX. Clearly, there's not much in this comment to help me understand his testimonial other than that Mr.
Kruse has stage IV prostate cancer and kidney cancer. It's not clear if he has both prostate and kidney cancer which would be very unusual or prostate cancer that's metastasized to the kidney less uncommon. Searches on Facebook and Twitter didn't yield anything either. It's almost as though these patients were chosen for how little information about them is publicly available on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and various websites, even pro-Burzynski websites.
After we see Burzynski's smiling face going on about how the sequencing of the human genome was the milestone that revolutionized cancer treatment, Great Day Houston host Deborah Duncan reads an introduction that will make anyone familiar with Stanislaw Burzynski's four-decade scam cringe, so much so that I wondered if Burzynski himself had written it.
She basically recounts that Burzynski discovered a gene-targeted cancer therapy back in the s. This is, of course, ridiculous.
Contrary to the hagiography of Eric Merola's two propaganda movies about Burzynski, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is A Serious Business and Burzynski: Cancer Is A Serious Business, Part II , in which it is claimed that Burzynski is a pioneer of "gene-targeted cancer therapy," Burzynski's two go-to treatments include the unproven and likely ineffective antineoplastons and the "make it up as you go along" his " gene-targeted therapy ".
Particularly risible have been Burzynski's arrogant, ego-fueled claims mindlessly repeated on this segment that he first described "gene-targeted therapy" and that he invented precision oncology , with major cancer centers like MD Anderson only now catching up to his vision. It's a message parroted both by Duncan and Agu in this segment, and it's simply not true.
Burzynski is not a "pioneer" in personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy and never has been. He is most definitely not a pioneer in immunotherapy either, contrary to Agu's assertion. That the segment starts out with a message painting Burzynski as a scientist ahead of his time tells me that what I'm seeing is propaganda far more than journalism and that Agu's docuseries will apparently preach this message tells me that Agu is more akin to Eric Merola than to a serious producer, at least when it comes to Burzynski.
Let's just put it this way. If Burzynski had never been born, major cancer centers would be embracing precision medicine and immunotherapy now in exactly the same way, mainly because Burzynski has had zero positive effect on oncology.
When the camera pans out to show all the guests for the first time, my first reaction upon seeing Bo Edwards was that he looks very, very sick. Inexplicably, his whole right arm is bandaged and he has a catheter in place that is hooked up to a black bag that he's carrying. It makes me wonder if he's getting a continuous infusion of antineoplastons. In any event, he looks gaunt, and there's something funny about how his loose shirt sits on his bandaged right arm.
Certainly, he does not look the way that Agu describes him and Kruse , "cured of cancer. In any event, we learn from Bo Edwards that the reason he went to the Burzynski Clinic after being diagnosed with stage IV cancer type not yet specified was because a friend of his wife with stage IV cancer type not specified had gone there 18 years ago and was cured.
In any event, he was told that he could have chemotherapy which probably wouldn't work ; he could have radiation which would likely only prolong his life marginally ; or he could have radical surgery that would involve removing his arm, shoulder, and part of his upper chest. When I heard this, all I could think of was forequarter amputation, the same operation recommended to Jessica Ainscough, whose promotion of "holistic health" and alternative medicine led her to be known in Australia as the Wellness Warrior.
She ultimately died of her disease after a very prolonged course, but what had frightened her from conventional treatment was the prospect of a forequarter amputation, a brutal operation that is rarely performed these days. Seeing Edwards' bandaged arm and hearing the recommendation that he have what sure sounded like a forequarter amputation, made me wonder if he has what Ainscough had, epithelioid sarcoma.
In any event, the fact that he was offered such radical surgery suggested to me that he has some sort of sarcoma involving his upper arm and that he doesn't have metastases to distant organs. If he did, there's no way such radical surgery would even be considered.
So when was Bo Edwards diagnosed? It turns out that it wasn't that long ago. He was given the three options, according to his story, in January , only 9 months ago. That's an awfully short time to be declared cured of any cancer. We're also shown zero evidence that Edwards is, in fact, cancer-free, as he claims.
If he were cancer-free, I wonder, why is his arm bandaged and why is he still hooked up to an infusion device? James Treadwell from Coronado, Calif. Jenny Gettino of Syracuse, N. Yet the National Cancer Institute says there is no evidence that Burzynski has cured a single patient, or even helped one live longer.
He has not backed up his claims by publishing results from a randomized, controlled trial — considered the gold standard of medical evidence — in a respected, peer-reviewed journal. And Burzynski's drugs pose a risk of serious harm , including coma, swelling near the brain and death, according to the NCI and informed consent documents that patients sign before beginning treatment. While Burzynski has touted his treatments as an alternative to chemotherapy, a NCI study found that antineoplastons can cause many of the same side effects as conventional chemo: nausea, vomiting, headaches, muscle pain, confusion and seizures.
For 36 years, critics say, Burzynski has been selling false hope to desperate families at the most vulnerable time of their lives. The couple say that Burzynski misled them about the type of treatment that would be offered, as well as the cost.
Burzynski, she says, is "the worst kind of predator. There are many reasons why Burzynski has been able to stay in business so long. He has benefited from state laws that limit the Texas Medical Board's authority to remove his license, as well as the ability of terminally ill patients to collect damages. His devoted followers are willing to fight for him. He also has exploited the public's growing fascination with alternative medicine and suspicion of the medical establishment.
At times, Burzynski also has had an especially influential ally: the Food and Drug Administration. Although "there were some stormy relations with the FDA" in the past, Burzynski said in an interview, "now, we have a productive relationship. In , a federal grand jury indicted Burzynski on 75 felony charges, including criminal contempt, mail fraud and violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. As a condition of his bail, a judge ordered him to stop prescribing antineoplastons. For a time, it looked as if Burzynski might never treat another patient.
Dozens of Burzynski's patients flocked to Washington to defend him, arguing that taking away antineoplastons was akin to a death sentence. Siegel, who credits Burzynski with curing her lymphoma 22 years ago, has testified on his behalf five times — once at his criminal trial and four times at hearings on Capitol Hill.
Facing both a political and public relations firestorm, the FDA in abruptly changed course. It offered to allow Burzynski to continue treating patients, but only through an official trial. Yet even Jaffe has acknowledged that the trial — now in its 17th year — was more about politics than science. In his memoirs, Galileo's Lawyer, Jaffe called it "a joke. The indictments led to two trials. In , one of Burzynski's criminal trials ended in a hung jury; the other, an acquittal.
Even his staunchest supporters wonder why Burzynski's drugs are nowhere close to receiving FDA approval. Like many of Burzynski's supporters, Siegel suspects that the medical community and drug industry are aligned against him. Burzynski and his patented discovery pose the greatest threat to an entrenched medical monopoly.
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