David Crowe interviews Eric Merola, director of three documentaries on people going outside the mainstream to treat their cancers.
The first two documentaries are Burzynski, the Movie (Part I) (2010) and Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business, Part II (2013), both on Dr. Stanislaw Buzynski of Houston, who has battled for decades with the U.S. FDA to get his non-toxic antineoplastons accepted as a legal cancer therapy. Eric’s most recent film, Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering (2014), is about the discovery by Ralph Moss, then a public relations officer at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York, that Laetrile was effective in cancer treatment, while he was supposed to be putting out press releases containing lies.
David and Eric expose how the highly profitable nature of mainstream cancer therapy distorts the purpose of cancer treatment from helping victims of cancer to maintaining the profitable status quo. Eric implies that the cancer establishment will have to crumble before what is allowed for cancer treatment will change in any substantial way in the U.S. That would occur only with a grassroots revolt against the continuing War on Cancer, the decades-long titanic struggle that pits toxic treatments against tumors, using the cancer patient’s body as the battlefield. Even if the patient doesn’t die in the process of all-out war, they may wonder if it was worth it in the end.
Dr. Burzynski’s antineoplastons are natural proteins that he found were present in lower quantities in many cancer patients. He does not claim a perfect remission rate, but his successes in previously intractable cases, such as many brain tumors, are vastly greater than the mainstream’s. Similarly, Laetrile is no “magic bullet,” but it has been scientifically shown to have some benefits. As Eric points out, that cannot be said for mainstream cancer treatments, which are lightly studied for one type of cancer before approval and then widely used “off-label” afterwards.
David describes the current cancer treatment system as a tumor with only one aim – to maintain its own viability. Like all tumors, it is vulnerable to a change in the environment. And this is where all individuals who educate themselves become antineoplastons — anti-cancer-agents!
For more information on how you can watch Eric’s documentaries, see http://ericmerola.com.
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