Everyone has been touched by cancer in one way or another. If you haven\u2019t had it yourself, the odds are extremely high you know someone who has, and who has died from it. I\u2019ve lost loved ones to cancer, and it\u2019s awful; it can take years filled with tests, hope, lack of hope, expensive therapy\u2026 and in the end the odds are what they are. It all makes for desperate times for those involved, with an emotional distress level that is beyond my ability to describe.<\/p>\n
There are people out there who claim they can cure cancer, or have therapies that can mediate it. Some of these people are simply con artists, ready to swoop in as soon as they smell blood in the water, vermin that they are. Others are honest but wrong, thinking they have stumbled on some therapy that no one else has found. However, time and again, when these alternative methods are tested rigorously using controlled, properly done studies, they are shown not to work. In general this does not stop people from making the claims, however.<\/p>\n
In Houston, Texas, is a man named Stanislaw Burzynski. He claims he has a method for treating cancer. He calls it antineoplaston therapy. However,\u00a0according to the National Cancer Institute<\/a>, \u201cNo randomized, controlled trials showing the effectiveness of antineoplastons have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.\u201d That\u2019s a bad sign. Furthermore, the FDA has not approved of antineoplaston therapy for use. Also telling is that \u201c\u2026 other investigators have not been able to obtain the same results reported by Dr. Burzynski and his team\u201d. Yet, despite this, Burzynski charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for people to get his therapy \u2014 though he has to say they\u2019re participating in research trials, since the FDA won\u2019t allow him to use his ideas as an actual treatment.<\/p>\n Those are red flags, to be sure.<\/p>\n [[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone has been touched by cancer in one way or another. If you haven\u2019t had it yourself, the odds are extremely high you know someone who has, and who has died from it. I\u2019ve lost loved ones to cancer, and … Continue reading