Breaking News: Outrageous New Attack on Dr. Burzynski
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I decided to start this thread because I recently read a heart touching story about a family who was gripped with cancer. When I was reading this story I felt so much compassion with this family and I almost could feel the despair. If I was in such a desperate situation with this worst diagnose, I would do everything in my power to save my kid's life and to find a curing treatment too. <br /><br />
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/nov/20/a-family-gripped-by-cancer<br /><br />The name 'Burzynki' crossed my mind instantly, because while I was watching 'Thrive The movie' a few weeks ago, I saw the part about the healthcare industry which is suppressing alternative cancer cures for economical gain and their battles against medical geniuses who invent and develop those cures. I consider Dr. Burzynski as one of those brave geniuses. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />The worst year of my life: cancer has my family in its grip<br />His four-year-old niece has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and her mother has breast cancer<br /><br />Luke Bainbridge <br /><br />The Observer, Sunday 20 November 2011<br />Article history<br /><br /><br />This article is the subject of a column by the readers' editor here<br /><br />My four-year-old niece Billie has an inoperable brain tumour. Her mother, my sister-in-law, has breast cancer. It's just been the worst year. It's hard to describe how things have been for us all.<br /><br />I'm one of three brothers and Billie is the daughter of my little brother Sam, who is 33. He and his wife Terri, 40, have a second child, Joe, aged two. Terri was diagnosed in February. And then Billie became ill in June.<br /><br />While Terri was having chemotherapy, Billie began to show signs of being unwell. At first they thought it was just a reaction to her mum's illness. Then she started to get wobbly, her eyes started drooping and she had difficulty swallowing. They realised that her speech was becoming slurred and she was having problems with her balance.<br /><br />Her GP referred her immediately to hospital. Initially they thought she might have had a mini-stroke. But after a scan, she was diagnosed with a tumour on her brain stem. It's called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). And it's known as the worst type of brain cancer. A doctor described it as "the worst kind of tumour in the worst place".<br /><br />This is an incredibly rare illness: only about 40 children are diagnosed with it every year in Britain. The cause is unknown but it is not genetic. If you look it up on the internet, all the statistics are stacked against Billie. It's an aggressive tumour and it's in the most delicate place. It's too dangerous to operate on because many of the brain's vital functions are located in the stem. So all that can be done is to try to reduce it using radiotherapy.<br /><br />The prognosis is complicated. Many of the children with these tumours have a life expectancy of around a year to 18 months. Is it impossible for her to survive? No, as it turns out. Sam and Terri very quickly found out about a pioneering treatment at the Burzynski Clinic in Texas for children with DIPG. The estimated cost is £200,000. It is not available in this country, it is new and there are no guarantees. When you are faced with a decision like that, what can you do? It's like Monopoly money and when we realised we would have to raise this amount, it seemed ridiculous. Especially as there's only a slight chance that the treatment might work.<br /><br />But it might save her life. So you have got to try. It was a relief to finally do something. When we realised we had to raise this money it was almost like a blessing because we felt that we could divert our energy into that. I've always worked as a music writer and editor (I was one of the founding editors of the Observer Music Monthly) so I know a lot of people from that world. It has been refreshing after so many years working with a music business which Hunter S Thompson rightly called a "cruel and shallow money trench" to find musicians so willing to help, just because they can.<br /><br />We set up a gig in Manchester with Badly Drawn Boy for the end of November. I helped him put out his first single and wrote the press release for it in 1997. We are still good friends. When I told him about what was going on, he said: "Whatever you need me to do, just tell me and I'll do it."<br /><br />I also happen to know Peter Kay because I used to edit Manchester's CityLife and he was its Comedian of the Year in the late 1990s. I sent him an email and he responded immediately. He offered to set up two gigs in Blackpool which take place next week. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.<br /><br />Everyone we have asked has done something. The actor Antony Cotton (Sean Tully in Coronation Street and currently on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here) heard about it and got the script from Coronation Street's 50th anniversary live episode signed by the entire cast so that we could auction it. Cheryl Cole sent a signed autobiography. So did Michael Bublé. Professor Green gave us a pair of signed trainers. Gorillaz gave us some rare figurines of them by a Japanese toy manufacturer. Radiohead was maybe the most shocking: I was expecting them to send a signed box set or something. They gave us Ed O'Brien's guitar. It raised more than £9,000.<br /><br />I'm amazed by what has happened. Once people find out there is a family in which the mother has breast cancer and the daughter has an inoperable brain tumour, they will do anything to help. People locally in Exeter have organised "butterfly balls" (the charity is called Billie Butterfly Fund). Two guys did a bike ride from Edinburgh to Exeter in two days.<br /><br />Billie's nursery donated a full-time nursery place worth about £20,000. The guy who won it in the raffle already had a child at the nursery and said: "I don't want to take the prize, I want the nursery to bill me and the money will go direct to the fund."<br /><br />One anonymous donor in the US sent $25,000. I still can't quite take that in. So far we have raised more than £170,000. With the Peter Kay gigs we are hoping to exceed the £200,000 and any money that is not spent directly on Billie's treatment will go towards research. Billie has already started the clinical trial. She went to Texas for a month, six weeks ago. She was able to come back and bring the treatment with her. She has a backpack with the treatment in it and a Hickman line going into her chest which administers this liquid every four hours. She has not been eating since she has been on the treatment so she also has to be fed through a tube – milkshakes and protein drinks.<br /><br />Her health goes in waves. She started school a couple of weeks ago. She goes in for the afternoon for an hour and then just sleeps in the corner of the classroom.<br /><br />Of course, she doesn't comprehend what is happening. When Terri got breast cancer, her parents told her: "Mummy has a lump and the doctors have to take it out to make her better." Now they tell her, "You have a lump too. The doctors can't take it out. But they are going to try to make it smaller." That's about as much as a four-year-old can grasp. Her brother Joe just knows that she is poorly.<br /><br />In some ways the fundraising has been great because it has given us something to do. Friends and family have been amazing and have really led all that because obviously Terri and Sam have to try to have some semblance of normal family life for the children. They run a property company together and that has been a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they don't have a problem with getting time off work. On the other, they are self-employed so they are not earning while all this is going on. It's not exactly the least of their concerns because they have a mortage to pay, but when something like this happens you do what you have to do. At the moment Terri's prognosis looks a lot better. But she has only just finished her chemotherapy and radiotherapy.<br /><br />I'm overwhelmed by the support that we have had and I'm thrilled Peter Kay is doing these two gigs. It's a chance for people to see him in a relatively intimate venue. The Blackpool Opera House seats 3,000 and normally he would play to 20,000.<br /><br />We hope the shows are a sell-out. I'll be there. Although I'm not sure I'm really in the mood for laughing much.<br /><br />Until this happened Billie was just one of those people you imagine will sail through life. The change in her from a year ago is huge. I've spent the past 15 years as a music journalist meeting all these rock stars who supposedly have "the X factor". Most of them really don't have it. Billie does.<br /><br />It's hard not to resort to clichés but she is one of those little girls who is incredibly beautiful and who just lights up a room. Of course, she's my niece. So I'm biased.<br />
<br /><br /><br />Texas Med. Bd. vs. Dr. Burzynski 4/11/12 - Gene-Targeted Cancer Therapy<br /><br /><br />Here's some recent news about a new attack of the TMB (Texas Medical Board) on Dr. Burzynski:<br />Geüpload door BurzynskiMovie op 18 jan 2011<br /><br />http://www.burzynskimovie.com - WATCH FREE: The first 36 of 108 minutes of "Burzynski - Cancer Is Serious Business" - get the DVD and find out more info at http://www.burzynskimovie.com<br /><br />ABOUT THE FILM:<br />Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history.<br /><br />His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's belief in and commitment to his gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of testing in 2011—barring the ability to raise the required $150 million to fund them.<br /><br />When Antineoplastons are approved, it will mark the first time in history a single scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patent and distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough.<br /><br />Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chose his treatment instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation - with full disclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery - as well as FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparing Antineoplastons to other available treatments.<br /><br />One form of cancer - diffuse, intrinsic, childhood brainstem glioma has never before been cured in any experimental clinical trial in the history of medicine. Antineoplastons hold the first cures in history - dozens of them. <br /><br />This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons. <br /><br />Dr. Burzynski resides and practices medicine in Houston, Texas. He was able to initially produce and administer his discovery without FDA-approval from 1977-1995 because the state of Texas at this time did not require that Texas physicians be required to adhere to Federal law in this situation. This law has since been changed. <br /><br />As with anything that changes current-day paradigms, Burzynski's ability to successfully treat incurable cancer with such consistency has baffled the industry. However this fact has prompted numerous investigations by the Texas Medical Board, who relentlessly took Dr. Burzynski as high as the state supreme court in their failed attempt to halt his practices. <br /><br />Likewise, the Food and Drug Administration engaged in four Federal Grand Juries spanning over a decade attempting to indict Dr. Burzynski, all of which ended in no finding of fault on his behalf. Finally, Dr. Burzynski was indicted in their 5th Grand Jury in 1995, resulting in two federal trials and two sets of jurors finding him not guilty of any wrongdoing. If convicted, Dr. Burzynski would have faced a maximum of 290 years in a federal prison and $18.5 million in fines. <br /><br />However, what was revealed a few years after Dr. Burzynski won his freedom, helps to paint a more coherent picture regarding the true motivation of the United States government's relentless persecution of Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D.<br />
<br />http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/breaking-news-outrageous-new-attack-on-dr-burzynski/ <br /><br />Sorry for this long post but I felt that these cases deserved more attention, and they don't get too much attention from the media as they deserve? Well..media isn't always so independent as you might think.. but we do know that already, don't we? <br /><br /><br />January 4, 2012 <br /><br />[size=12pt]Breaking News: Outrageous New Attack on Dr. Burzynski[/size]<br /><br />by Alliance for Natural Health<br /> <br />The pioneering cancer doctor is a target once again. But you can help stop the attack.<br /> <br />Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, is a biochemist practicing in Texas who developed (using his own money) a nontoxic gene-targeted cancer therapy called antineoplastons. It has been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.<br /> <br />Dr. Burzynski had tried to get the FDA to review and approve antineoplastons since 1977, to no avail. To make sure he would not get into trouble for using the experimental therapy in his practice, his legal team confirmed that he was acting within the law and could use antineoplastons in his own practice “to meet the immediate needs of patients.” But in the 1980s the Texas Medical Board (TMB) charged him with breaking a law that didn’t actually exist and tried to revoke his medical license. Numerous investigations later—including an appearance before the Texas Supreme Court—found no violation of any law or standard of care. The TMB came up empty-handed.<br /> <br />We have reported on the TMB’s pattern of harassment against integrative doctors a number of times, discussing serious allegations from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the serious attacks on Dr. Bill Rea’s work in environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, and on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s involvement in appointing board members who actively harass integrative physicians.<br /> <br />As Dr. Joseph Mercola reported in June of this year, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the National Cancer Institute all knew how promising Dr. Burzynski’s therapy was proving to be. Standard cancer treatment is based on very expensive machines and very expensive toxic drugs. There is an enormous amount of money to be made in this paradigm, and Dr. Burzynski’s work single-handedly threatened to overturn much of it. On the other hand, this treatment showed such promise that they wanted to get their hands on it themselves.<br /> <br />So first they tried to copy his invention using a single non-patented ingredient, and when that failed, they tried to steal his patents out from under him. However, they knew they couldn’t use the stolen patents so long as he had the ability to defend his rights. So the government spent over $60 million to prosecute him on 75 counts of violating federal law, hoping to tuck him away in jail for the rest of his life.<br /> <br />For the next ten years, Dr. Burzynski was engaged in a lengthy and convoluted legal battle with the FDA. After two trials, he was found not guilty on all counts, and his antineoplastons medication is currently undergoing the FDA approval process. His fight was chronicled in a stunning documentary film, Burzynski: The Movie. More info on the documentary can be found at the film’s website, while the movie itself can be viewed online for a limited time.<br /> <br />Now the Texas Medical Board is back. The TMB is making yet another attempt to revoke Dr. Burzynski’s medical license which, if successful, would result in the closure of his clinic, the abandonment of all his patients, and would squelch any possibility of antineoplastons gaining FDA-approval.<br /> <br />Using the death of two of his terminally ill patients as a pretext, the TMB is charging Dr. Burzynski with the off-label use of FDA-approved drugs. It must be stressed, however, that Dr. Burzynski uses the drugs off-label in order to tailor the medication specifically to an individual’s genetic profile, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. Dr. Burzynski takes blood and tissue samples from his patients to form their molecular profile. From that he chooses from wide variety of existing FDA-approved drugs to tailor his gene-targeted therapy to his patient’s genetic profile specifically.<br /> <br />Multi-agent targeted gene therapies are the way of future. The American Society of Clinical Oncology has stated that they want to focus on “targeted therapies and personalized diagnosis and treatment” over the next decade. Dr. Burzynski is the only one who is using such a treatment on patients today.<br /> <br />The TMB’s complaint concerns a patient who had triple-negative breast cancer, had already undergone conventional cancer treatment without success, and initially felt better after Dr. Burzynski’s treatment and was able to return to work. The board is charging Dr. Burzynski over the side effects of his treatment, though they do not seem concerned with the horrible side effects she experienced with the conventional cancer treatments.<br /> <br />The complaint also concerns a patient with estensioneruoblastoma, a cancer so rare that any medication use would have been “off-label” since there is no recognized treatment for this disease at all. The patient lived for five more years and the tumor decreased in size by 40%, but the TMB complaint is charging that the disease actually progressed during his treatment.<br /> <br />The off-label use of FDA-approved drugs is not uncommon, and it is legal. According to the American Cancer Society, a study showed that 8 out of 10 cancer doctors surveyed had used drugs off-label. And half of the chemotherapy drugs used are for conditions not listed on the FDA-approved drug label.<br /> <br />Please take 20 minutes to watch this brand-new video on the upcoming court case, and share it with friends. Not only does it outline the charges involved in this case, but it also gives you a glimpse at a new side of Dr. Burzynski’s treatment. You’ll be shocked at how flimsy the TMB’s case is—and how doggedly persistent the board is in harassing Dr. Burzynski and others like him.<br /> <br />The Texas Medical Board v. Stanislaw Burzynski trial will begin on April 11, 2012. Please write to Gov. Rick Perry, who appointed a number of members of the TMB, including its heads, as well as the House Committee on Public Health and the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, which oversee the TMB. This is about our right as citizens to choose our own cancer treatment—and not allow decades of important gene-targeted cancer research be flushed down the drain in the name of protecting the profits of an industry that doesn’t want Burzynski to survive. Please take action today!<br /> <br />Read the full article here: http://www.anh-usa.org/new-attack-on-dr-burzynski/
<br />http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/18/journalism-in-drug-industry.aspx<br /><br />L.O.V.E.<br />This is really not surprising considering that that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's son, James Murdoch, is a member of drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) corporate responsibility committee (a position he entered in May 2009). His job? To review "external issues that might have the potential for serious impact upon the group's business and reputation" -- a position he's well suited for …<br /> <br />James Murdoch, as you may know, is the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, and chairman of BSkyB. <br /><br />I can only imagine the extent to which drug makers can benefit from having a media mogul on their payroll, as well as "sponsoring" media content on health policy. Clearly they've thought this one through, and it makes perfect sense when you consider the clout they need to keep the media quiet about their various wrongdoing ...<br /> <br />I think it's safe to say that if strings need to be pulled, they will be pulled—hard.<br /> <br />Drug industry influence is not restricted to Murdoch's newspaper empire, but their ties are worth noting as they have been at the center of intense media and legal scrutiny before regarding allegedly fabricating lies against a respected British doctor, Andrew Wakefield (against whom, ironically, the British Medical Journal also launched an unjustified vicious attack).<br />
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