FBI and FDA Raid a Laetrile-Using Clinic
The Camelot Clinic On April 23, 2013, agents of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Oklahoma Medical Board raided an “alternative cancer...
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In God We Trust, All Others Show Data: Part 1
A Reply to the NCI Director's "Challenge Vision" Part 1 In a 2004 article, Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), elaborated on his “challenge...
A Trip To Tijuana
The Laetrile MovementIn the spring of 1976, I slipped away from a scientific meeting in Anaheim, California, and drove with a friend to Tijuana, Mexico, to visit the Cydel Clinic. This was the...
Cancer Control Society Meeting 2004
Laetrile, Mexico, Freedom of Choice, Humanitarian Award I regularly attend the annual meetings of both the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Cancer Control Society (CCS). Both...
A View of Gastric Cancer’s Origins
Gastric cancer originates from bone marrow-derived cells. So states a paper published in late 2004 by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), Worcester,...
History of Breast Cancer Treatment
An Ancient Disease From the time of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt until the late nineteenth century, the standard treatment of breast cancer – if it was treated at all – was painful, brutal, and...
The High Cost of Cancer in the USA
We have a cancer crisis in the USA. Besides the obvious pain and suffering that cancer causes, there is the financial burden that it creates. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential primaries, Sen....
The Cancer Drug Ripoff
The public is fed up with the cancer drug ripoff of runaway prices. Just when you need financial and emotional support you are hit with crazy expenses. Big Pharma has set cancer drug prices way...
Hydrazine Sulfate Unfairly Blamed for Patient’s Death
An Object Lesson An internist at a small military hospital in South Carolina created a sensation in December when he claimed that the unconventional drug hydrazine sulfate caused massive liver...
Are We Making Progress in the War on Cancer?
[This is a version of the speech that I gave in Munich on June 16, 2012, at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Integrative Oncology of the German Society of Oncology (DGO).] First, I want...
Cancer as a Disease of Civilization – History
Cancer as a Disease of Civilization Is cancer a disease of civilization? Is it related to other diseases that seem to increase with industrialization? If so, what are the implications for people...
Goldman Sachs to Biotech: Don’t Cure Cancer
Cancer is a growth industry. And drug companies are not interested in curing cancer. It is more profitable to turn it into a chronic condition. They can then offer “chronic treatments.”...
CAM and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2011)
Every year, tens of thousands of the world’s oncologists gather in Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). This huge meeting brings together cancer...
ASCO in 2002: A Hollow Event
38th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Everything about the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was huge. There were 26,000...
The 20th Anniversary of Alternative Medicine at the NIH
‘No Turning Back’ The year 2011 happened to be not only the 40th anniversary of the government’s War on Cancer but also the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Office of Alternative Medicine...
Hugh D. Riordan, MD (1932-2005)
Hugh D. Riordan, MD (1932-2005) Hugh D. Riordan, MD, 72, founder and director of the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International, Wichita, Kansas died on January 7, 2005....
Dean Burk, Ph.D.
In the years that I have worked in the field of cancer, I have been privileged to encounter many exceptional people. One of these was Dr. Dean Burk, an early mentor, and a genuinely original...
Bjorn E. W. Nordenstrom, MD – In Memory
On December 31, 2006, Bjorn E. W. Nordenstrom, MD, Professor Emeritus of Radiology at Sweden's esteemed Karolinska Institute, and former president of the Nobel Laureate Nominating Committee for...
In Memory of Robert A. Good MD, PhD
A Celebrated Cancer Researcher “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look for upon his like again.” —Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii Dr. Robert A. Good, MD, Ph.D., one of the...
Bill Fair’s Story
Bill Fair’s Story Even very dire prognoses have their exceptions. Throughout the years, we have seen people survive a long time with the most threatening kinds of cancer, people whose chances,...
Remembering Dieter Hager
Memorial Remarks Remarks delivered at a memorial service in Bad Bergzabern, Germany, on Jan. 15, 2010. I have come here today to both mourn and celebrate a man that I knew as a scientist and a...
Laszlo Csatary – In Memoriam
The First to Use Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) On March 20, 2012, Laszlo Csatary, MD, the first person to use Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in the treatment of cancer, passed away in Fort...
In Memoriam – Wolfgang Woeppel, MD and Alexander (Alex) S. Sun, PhD
I note with sadness the passing of two significant figures in the world of complementary and alternative medicine. Wolfgang Woeppel, MD, founding director of the Hufeland Klinik (hospital) in Bad...
Ray Rosenthal, MD – In Memory
A Prominent ResearcherRay Rosenthal, MD, a prominent researcher of CAM treatments, died on Wednesday, April 17, after being involved in a traffic accident in his home state of Hawaii. He...
Ken Schueler – In Memoriam
A Well-Known Figure In The World Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Kenneth (Ken) Schueler, a well-known figure in the world of complementary and alternative medicine, passed away from...
William R Fair Jr. MD Obituary
William R. Fair, Jr., MD - A Pivotal Figure In January 2002, William R. Fair, Jr., MD, died at the age of 66. For 13 years, Bill Fair was chief of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
Michael Culbert (1937-2004)
A Leading Figure in CAM Cancer Treatments I note with great sadness the passing of Michael Culbert, one of the leading figures in the field of CAM cancer treatments. Michael died on September 11,...
Louis Lasagna, MD (1923-2003) Obituary
Dean Emeritus, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and founder of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development I note with sadness the passing of Louis Lasagna, MD, Dean...
Patrick McGrady, Jr. Dies
Independent Journalist in the Cancer Field I note with sadness the passing of Patrick McGrady, Jr., on Friday, December 12, 2003. He died of a blood clot at the University of Washington hospital,...