Skepsis

Wel irritant, zo'n welles nietes prikbord. Doet me denken aan het speelplein op de kleuterschool, maar goed.

Als je de persoonlijke verhalen op www.kanker-actueel.nl leest, en vervolgens onderstaand stuk, dan kun je toch niet in termen van alternatief is slecht en regulier is goed en vice versa blijven spreken??

Is de bottomline niet gewoon dat het zaak is om te alle tijden kritisch te blijven? Regulier of alternatief, trial and error wordt overal toegepast.

Cancer: Dr.RALPH MOSS

CHEMOTHERAPY, LAETRILE, COLEY'S TOXINS, BURZYNSKI, & CANCER POLITICS

(Laura Lee radio show, 1994)

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Dr.RALPH MOSS

Cancer, CHEMOTHERAPY, LAETRILE, COLEY'S TOXINS, BURZYNSKI, & CANCER POLITICS

(Laura Lee radio show, 1994)

For over two decades, Ralph W. Moss Ph.D., has been an outstanding journalist in the field of cancer. From 1974 to 1977, he was science writer (later assistant director of public affairs) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Since being fired for “whistle blowing,” he has written ten books which have helped define the field of alternative medicine (Cancer Therapy, The Cancer Industry, Questioning Chemotherapy, Herbs Against Cancer, etc.). Many consider him one of the world's leading authorities on alternative and complementary approaches to cancer. Famed physician and author Dr. Julian Whitaker has said that if he had cancer he would turn first to Dr. Moss.

Julian Whitaker, M.D.

Renowned physician Julian Whitaker, M.D.

wrote about Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.'s report service in the November 1995 issue of his Health & Healing newsletter:

“You should know that if I were battling cancer – or any serious disease, for that matter – I would be in a constant search for effective, non-toxic therapies. One place to begin that search is with Ralph Moss, Ph.D. He is probably the most knowledgeable writer in the world on alternative therapies for cancer…. If I had cancer, I would start here for more information.”

Laura Lee:

The medical establishment keeps telling us that there are only 3 ways to treat cancer–chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Many people disagree and among them is Dr Ralph Moss, author of a new book, Cancer Therapy. Dr Moss, can we have a bit of background and why you became interested and decided to devote your practice and research to cancer?

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

Twenty years ago I was hired at Memorial Sloane Kettering (MSK) cancer centre in New York as the science writer, later promoted to assistant director of public affairs. Shortly after I went to work there I went to visit an elderly Japanese scientist, Kanematsu Sugiura, who astonished me when he told me he was working on Laetrile (B17), at the time it was the most controversial thing in cancer ..reputed to be a cure for cancer. We in public affairs were giving out statements that Laetrile was worthless, it was quackery, and people should not abandon proven therapies. I was astonished that our most distinguished scientist would be bothering with something like this, and I said why are you doing this if it does not work. He took down lab books and showed me that in fact Laetrile is dramatically effective in stopping the spread of cancer. The animals were genetically programmed to get breast cancer and about 80 - 90% of them normally get spread of the cancer from the breast to the lungs which is a common route in humans, also for how people die of breast cancer, and instead when they gave the animals Laetrile by injection only 10-20% of them got lung metasteses. And these facts were verified by many people, including the pathology department.

Laura Lee: So this is verified, that Laetrile can have this positive effect?

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

We were finding this and yet we in public affairs were told to issue statements to the exact opposite of what we were finding scientifically, and as the years went by I got more rapped up in this thing and 3 years later I said all this in my own press conference, and was fired the next day, “for failing to carry out his most basic job responsibility”–ie to lie to the public what goes on in cancer research

Laura Lee: How can these people justify this in their own minds?

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

Basically the attitude was best expressed by Lewis Thomas, the president of the centre, who told my boss, as he would not see me, “I am not going to die on the barricades for Laetrile. It is not a cure, it is only a palliative, (meaning it relieves pain and stops the spread of cancer), if it were a cure it might be a different story, but I am not going to give up my career, to die on the barricades”. That's how they justified it in their own minds. I could not do that, nor could Dr Sugiura, who never renounced the results of his own studies, despite the fact they put enormous pressure on him to do so.

Laura Lee: Are we practicing science here, or medicine, or politics?

Dr.RALPH MOSS: Politics. Political science as we say!

Laura Lee:

You were mentioning that patients hear cure rate when something very different is being talked about. And we can go into the poor statistics for the standard modalities. They are not that effective, which is why everyone is looking for an alternative.

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

When I was at MSK a lot of very weird things started to happen to me, there was this cognitive distance between what I was told, and was writing about treatment, especially chemotherapy, and what I was seeing with my own eyes. One time I heard the head of the intensive care unit give a talk in which he bragged about how he had one of the lowest mortality rates in his unit. I went out to lunch with him, where he became a bit inebriated, and told me how he managed to get those statistics—by wheeling the dying patients out into the corridor where they died and didn't sully our departments record.

Laura Lee: Lets skew those statistics any way that looks good to us.

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

Another time I went to interview a breast surgeon, and he had a lamp in the shape of a women's breast on his desk. I couldn't even get out a single interview question I was so astounded by this insensivity, and here women were flocking in to have their breasts removed by this guy, and I thought…I didn't have any idea what was wrong but it was that twilight zone of knowing, feeling that something was definitely wrong but not knowing what it was. It was only when I had the enforced leisure from being fired that I was able to really look into it.

Laura Lee:

It is interesting how many establishment doctors start out, in many cases to disprove the efficacy of alternative therapies and become advocates of alternative therapies. I don't hear many stories of the other way round.

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

No, it is not likely. So, I started to look into the whole question of chemotherapy in particular, that is the cutting edge of orthodox treatment and I have now completed a report—Chemotherapy, How, When, and Why. With emphasis on the why. Although we do give some information for those who are taking chemotherapy on what they can take to decrease the side effects. Basically it is a very critical and comprehensive look, for we deal with about 60 different types of cancer, and all of the FDA approved anti cancer drugs. The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure—Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma. Testicular cancer has yielded to platinum containing drugs.

Laura Lee: It probably makes you impotent

Dr.RALPH MOSS:

It does more than that. It is extremely damaging to the body, but it does lead to a very extended life for people with this problem. An interesting thing is that platinum is the old homoeopathic drug for problems of the tes

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