BLOCKING A PROMISING CANCER TREATMENT
2009-08-08
MURDER AT THE US NATIONAL CANCER
INSTITUTE (NCI).
Daniel Haley's brilliant book, Politics in Healing, recounts
how NCI's 1991 clinical trial of the innovative and
"alternative" cancer medicine, hydrazine sulfate (HS), was
rigged.
Rigged to fail.
A spectacularly promising medicine, HS had shown good
results in trials at Harbor/UCLA hospital and in Russia. NCI
felt obligated to test the drug. But there was a catch.
The drug's discoverer, Dr. Joseph Gold, had found that HS
reacted badly if patients were taking other drugs,
especially tranquilizers. Several warnings were given to NCI
before it began its test. The warnings were explicit.
Patients could DIE if they were taking tranquilizers.
It turned out that none of the NCI patients were warned
about this. It turned out that 94% of those patients were in
fact on tranquilizers.
Barry Tice, an investigator for the US General Accounting
Office (GAO), looked into the NCI trial of hydrazine sulfate
after it was over. He called Dr. Gold and told him he had
found a "smoking gun." There was an internal NCI memo which
showed that NCI was well aware of the problems involved in
the drug combinations.
The GAO did not back up its own investigator. The final GAO
report on the NCI clinical trials of hydrazine sulfate
simply accused NCI of sloppy bookkeeping.
In the June 1995 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology,
a letter from the NCI was published. The letter stated that
NCI had omitted mentioning, in its own published account of
its cancer study, that 94% of the patients had been on
tranquilizers. But, because this letter did NOT mention how
dangerous that situation was, it looked like NCI was simply
admitting to a technical and unimportant mistake. A clerical
error.
So what did happen to the patients in the NCI hydrazine
sulfate study?
They ALL DIED.
The drug, hydrazine sulfate, was judged to be totally
ineffective, and thus a competitor for chemotherapy dollars
was eliminated. Hydrazine sulfate is a cheap, widely
available, unpatentable substance. No profit there.
Was this story splashed across the front pages of major
newspapers in America? Did the "great men" of television,
those holy anchors, insist on covering it with the emphasis
it deserved? Of course not.
The story was originally dug out and published in Penthouse,
by reporter Jeff Kamen, who should have won a Pulitzer for
it, but won nothing.
And NCI has a rule that none of its patients in clinical
trials can have their names revealed.
(THERE ARE OTHER SUBSTANCES AND FOODS WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE
WITH HYDRAZINE SULFATE AND MAY CAUSE GREAT HARM AND DEATH.
ONE SHOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS BEFORE DECIDING TO EXPERIMENT
WITH THE DRUG.)
There is more to this incredible story. Penthouse publisher
Bob Guccione's wife, Kathy Keeton, who was the founder of
Longevity, a magazine that was part of the Guccione empire,
was diagnosed with "galloping breast cancer" in 1995. She
was given 6 weeks to live.
She refused chemotherapy and became a VERY high-profile case
of a person taking hydrazine sulfate instead.
She also chose radiation to reduce one of her many tumors--a
growth around her bile duct. Dr. Gold said the dose of
radiation should be small, because hydrazine sulfate would
enhance the effect of the radiation. But the radiologist
gave her the full dose instead, burned her liver and caused
later scarring.
Overall, Keeton recovered. In fact, a year after her
predicted death date, her cancer was in full remission. The
hydrazine sulfate was a remarkable success.
Guccione ran ads in Penthouse, asking for families of the
dead victims in the NCI experiment to come forward and join
a class-action suit against NCI.
Guccione estimated there had been 600 victims in the NCI
clinical test.
In October 1997, Kathy Keeton went into a major and
well-respected NY hospital for surgery. From all accounts,
this operation had nothing to do with cancer. Amazingly,
complications occurred. She died.
Most of America assumed she had succumbed to cancer. Further
"proof" that hydrazine sulfate did not work.
Predictably, the FDA has gotten into the act. On April 23,
1998, that criminal agency raided a distributor of hydrazine
sulfate, Great Lakes Metabolics, in Rochester, Minnesota. In
2000, the FDA shut down the company that supplies hydrazine
sulfate to Great Lakes, and Great Lakes went out of
business.
In 1996, when hydrazine sulfate (HS) was still very much in
the public spotlight, Dr. Gold states he received 20 phone
calls in one day from doctors at Sloan Kettering, the
world's number one center for toxic chemotherapy research
and treatment. These doctors wanted to obtain HS on the sly
for their patients. Gold states that roughly 2/3 of the
patients were from the doctors' families. And six of these
doctors had refused to give HS to other patients at Sloan
Kettering. The phrase, scum of the Earth, comes to mind.
Author Haley offers a dozen patient testimonials re HS. They
are anecdotes, to be sure, but they are remarkable.
Example: "Oncologist report in today. No cancer anywhere,
after two and a half months on HS and vitamins/minerals and
supplements. They have no idea where cancer went."
Example: "Seven weeks on hydrazine sulfate. Brain and lung
lesions disappeared."
Example: "I purchased some HS for my sister a few weeks ago.
Too early to tell, but she went from near death at the
hospital on chemo to a campground some place, with a fishing
pole."
I don't make recommendations for medicines. HS studies at
Harbor/UCLA and in Russia did not cure everyone, not by a
long shot. Of course, there are questions about those
protocols too, because ordinary foods like raisins are
incompatible with HS--and who knows what the patients were
fed. And, on top of that, no well-designed studies have ever
been done using HS on patients in early stages of cancer,
where the results might be even better.
HS has been defamed by monsters. "First do no harm" has been
turned into "destroy." Those responsible for this terrible
crime should be arrested, shackled, and shown on national
television on the steps at NCI. NCI should be closed and
fumigated.
More notes on HS (hydrazine sulfate)...
One session of conventional chemo costs enough to pay for 10
years of treatment with HS.
In 1973, a doctor with a terminal Hodgkins patient
approached Dr. Gold for help. Gold recommended a dosage
level. In a few weeks, the patient was up and around, not
dead. By October of 1973, 1000 patients in the US were on
HS.
Dean Burke, head of cell chemistry at NCI, said in 1974 that
HS was "the most remarkable anticancer agent I have come
across in my 45 years experience in cancer...this material
is so cheap because it is made by the trainload for
industrial purposes."
In September 1973, Sloan Kettering (SK), the most
prestigious cancer center in the world, started an HS study
on terminal patients. The lead physician, Dr. Manuel Ochoa,
had agreed to give each patient 60 mg a day for 3 days and
then 60 mg 3 times a day after that---but Dr. Gold learned
Ochoa was changing the protocol drastically---he was giving
1 mg the first day, then 2 mg the next day, and so on,
building up to a top of 30 mg----except in some cases he
actually gave patients 120-190 mg a day---brutal overdoses.
In 1975 SK announced HS was worthless.
Dr. Gold then did a study for Calbiochem, a drug company.
70% of 84 patients gained weight and had less pain. HS was,
in fact, designed to alleviate wasting away in the first
place. 17% of the patients showed tumor regression or a
stabilization of their condition for one year.
In 1975, Russian researchers published two positive study
findings on HS.
In 1976, the American Cancer Society (ACS) put HS on its
dreaded blacklist of "unapproved" cancer treatments. ACS
neglected to mention it owned 50% of a competing and highly
toxic cancer drug, 5FU.
By 1978, the FDA was cracking down on HS. 5000 patients in
the US were on the medicine. The FDA falsely stated that HS
caused bone marrow toxicity. In fact, conventional
chemo---approved by the FDA---destroys bone marrow.
Jeff Kamen, the reporter who got the HS story out in
Penthouse? Here is how he became interested in the first
place. His mother Erna came back from cancer with HS. She
gained 23 pounds and was doing much better. Then her doctor
convinced her to stop HS and go on an experimental chemo
drug. In five days, she was dead.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com