Not Hair Loss News – Doctor Claims to Cure Cancer, Is Possibly a Quack
Snippet from the article:
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been raised to send British patients to a doctor in America who claims he can “cure cancer”. But Dr Stanislaw Burzynski’s treatment has been dismissed by practitioners of mainstream medicine.
It looked like something out of Willy Wonka’s factory. A room full of pipes and noise; a production process that flowed through steel tubes, steaming boilers and glass tanks of bubbling liquid. But there was one striking difference from a chocolate factory – the whole room smelled of urine. This is an industrial facility in Texas which produces the drug at the heart of Dr Stanislaw Burzynski’s treatment. He thinks the cure to cancer can be found inside our bodies, substances in blood and urine that switch off cancer cells.
Dr Burzynski calls them antineoplastons. He used to extract them from human urine, but he now uses chemicals. Up to 300 litres of the drug, which has never been licensed, are produced in this factory every day.
Read the rest — Curing cancer or ‘selling hope’ to the vulnerable?
We look for heroes who break the rules imposed by traditional medicine, working with diseases impossible to cure. Hope is a strong drive and many times regular channels in medicine do not give the hope to those who feel abandoned.
I have seen reports on this doctor and although there is little evidence that what treatments he offers has value, he offers optimism for people with terminal diseases who do not otherwise have much to hope for.
No, sorry, he’s a quack. He charges extortionate amounts to terrified parents of sick children, refuses to enter his work into clinical trials as it would remove his income stream and he spends more on legal and PR than on research. Everyone who has questioned his motives has been attacked online or had legal threats. There is zero evidence his treatment has ever worked and his debt collectors hound relatives of deceased patients. Please read up on the clinic and the exposé of its methods.
Those hair loss docs who sell false hope about total coverage are one thing – those that prey on the parents of children with cancer are another.
“Possibly” a quack?
61 entrants to phase II trials that are then never written up as the results aren’t worth publishing. Being sued by Texas for falsifying medical trial documents?
Sorry the guy should not be protected. I am obviously interested in balding cures and dislike surgeons who promise more than they can deliver but the worst that happens with a terrible transplant is sadness and possible infection. With false cancer treatments its bereaved relatives and a huge bill for a dead relative. That’s not hope – that’s preying on desperation and fiendish.
Im with you Paul. Dr R is almost (near 100%) spot-on in his comments. But, in this case, there is a difference between optimism and intentionally false hope, the latter which eventually results in sadness and lost time (for those with little time).