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9. Lawrence Burton — Immunoaugmentative Therapy In 1977, zoologist Lawrence Burton in Long Island claimed that 90 hopeless cancer patients of the 150 he had treated with an immunity-stimulating serum developed during the foregoing three years were alive because of his therapy, and that cancer had been arrested in 100 per cent of laboratory mice with the same approach. As Burton continued to develop and expand the "immunoaug- mentative therapy" (IAT), the Food and Drug Administration, which had allowed his earlier research, baulked. Dr Burton with- drew to the Bahamas, where hundreds of Americans and other patients have reported minor to major responses to this form of treatment which remains officially blackballed in the United States. remains technically illegal to prescribe this tea for cancer therapy. Even though such herbs as chaparral, blood root, red clover, bur- dock, echinacea, golden seal and comfrey are known to have anti- cancer properties, their use as anticancer medicines is not allowed, and persons who have put together mixtures of these herbs and marketed them for anticancer use have been prosecuted. 11. Linus Pauling — Vitamin C In the 1970s, the National Cancer Institute consistently refused to provide two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling with funds to continue to study vitamin C as a possible anticancer substance, despite impressive evidence both in the USA and abroad of vita- min C efficacy in at least extending the lives of cancer patients. When funds were finally allocated in 1978, the effort was to provide a clinical test in which patients previously treated with immune system-depressing chemotherapy were said not to have responded to vitamin C therapy. As late as the 1980s, the use of vitamin C as an anticancer agent was causing regulatory problems for doctors who engaged in such use. 10. Herbal Anticancer Remedies Despite more than a century of anecdotal evidence for the use of herbs in cancer, and despite the fact that as late as 1960 the National Cancer Institute had catalogued information on the anti- cancer properties of 39 useful herbs, such utilisation remains vig- orously suppressed in the USA. The development of the herb-based Essiac medicine in Canada has not been allowed, the research work on the Ferguson com- pounds was halted, and such American physicians as Daniel Clark, M.D., Florida, have had their licenses removed and/or been in other forms of regulatory difficulty because of the application of herbal poultices on tumours. The anticancer properties of the tajibo or pau d'arco tree, demonstrated in Brazil and Argentina, are not admitted in the USA. Chaparral tea, a long-recognised folklore remedy in cancer, was found in university research work to contain an active anti- cancer ingredient, nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), yet it F saiediiaiendinendinetaeeinamene a immune system-depressing ‘chemotherapy were said not to have responded to vitamin C therapy. As late as the 1980s, the use of vitamin C as an anticancer agent was causing regulatory problems for doctors who engaged in such use. 12. Joseph Gold — Hydrazine Sulphate The theory and use of hydrazine sulphate in cancer developed in the United States through the work of Dr Joseph Gold, Syracuse Cancer Research Institute. Yet it has been regarded as “unproven”, even though research in the Soviet Union increasing- ly indicates usefulness for this substance. eo — Reprinted from — Leading Edge #76, November 1994 Published by Leading Edge Research Group PO Box 7530, Yelm, Washington 98597, USA 12. Joseph Gold — Hydrazine Sulphate The theory and use of hydrazine sulphate in cancer developed in the United States through the work of Dr Joseph Gold, Syracuse Cancer Research Institute. Yet it has been regarded as “unproven”, even though research in the Soviet Union increasing- ly indicates usefulness for this substance. eo NEXUS © 25 PRonuAE - mcr 62272