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In Japan, Phase II trials have been completed, with Phase III trials underway for colon cancer metastasized to the liver (everyone is awaiting the final publication of these Phase III trials). Antineoplastons are set to be approved in Japan long before the United States, possibly resulting in a massive exodus of cancer patients into Japan upon their approval.

Phase III trials are the third and final phase of testing in the FDA-approval process. In the United States, Antineoplastons have successfully completed Phase II trials—which proves both safety and efficacy—and due to this accomplishment, Burzynski has been given permission by the FDA to begin Phase III trials, which consists of multiple independent facilities unrelated to Burzynski conducting the trials, which compare "standard treatment" (such as chemotherapy and radiation) to Antineoplaston treatment in two separate groups with the exact same type of cancers (known as the control groups and treated groups). These Phase III trials cost $150 million to complete, and since the NCI and federal government prohibit any taxpayer money (or cancer fundraising entities like "Susan G. Komen" or "Stand Up To Cancer") to help fund these trials, Burzynski is currently seeking funding on his own to pay for this.

Stanislaw Burzynski M.D. Ph.D. has a clinic in Houston Texas where he treats various kinds of cancer. Although he has employed this therapy with patients since 1976, his treatment is still not FDA approved and is therefore only available to those patients who meet rigid FDA criteria.

The information in this document is intended to share our experience and convey our knowledge of this innovative treatment. However, we encourage parents with children with brain tumors to do their own research. The address for the Burzynski website iswww.cancermed.com. In addition, the Burzynski Patient Group website provides case histories of children who are doing well on his therapy. If you're interested in this therapy, we encourage you to contact Dr. Burzynski directly.

On August 10th, 1998 our only child, Alexander, was diagnosed with the most common pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma. He was two years old. Our lives were shattered. The next six months became a race against time to try to understand the disease, find the appropriate treatment, and save Alexander.

After two brain operations, we wanted to give our son the most effective non-toxic cancer therapy possible. After weeks of research, many conversations with parents who had children with brain cancer, and conversations with doctors from all over the world, we selected the Burzynski Clinic. We arrived there on September 21, 1998 and incredibly we were turned away. Dr. Burzynski said he was not allowed to accept Alexander. I will never forget it. We sat in an examining room. Alexander was smiling at the doctor.

"I am sorry Mrs. Horwin, but the FDA dictates who I can and can't accept," Burzynski said in a heavy Polish accent.

Burzynski explained to us that the FDA would only allow him to accept children who had suffered through chemotherapy and/or radiation and still had "measurable tumor" left in their brains. Alexander hadn't had either of these "world class treatments" but already endured two brain operations (16 hours of surgery in total) and was tumor free for the moment. He had paid a dear price to be tumor free. His optic nerves had been injured so that his big brown eyes were stuck pointing in opposite directions, he lost the ability to cry and laugh and he temporarily lost the ability to walk.

"Please accept my son. He's only two years old. His whole life is in front of him. I know your treatment works. I've spoken to several parents whose children are here. They had malignant brain tumors like Alexander but now they're alive and well. You have to treat my son," I begged.

Dr. Burzynski said simply, "I am sorry but I can't." Burzynski was saddened but he was powerless. The FDA had made him turn away many children just like Alexander.

Chemotherapy was started soon after and Alexander died in my arms three months later.

Burzynski's therapy is neither a silver bullet nor a cure-all but it has been successful in the treatment of some patients, especially children, with primary brain tumors. (Primary brain tumors are those cancers that originate in the brain.) In addition, it is dramatically less toxic than chemotherapy. Burzynski has not saved every child that has come to him for treatment. One reason for this is that the FDA requires that children first be treated with chemotherapy and/or radiation and have the cancer return before they can qualify for therapy. Then it is nearly impossible to save these children because their immune systems are destroyed and the cancer that returns is usually more aggressive than the original one the child was diagnosed with.

Orthodox oncologists are adamantly opposed to Burzynski therapy and they react strongly and emotionally when his name is mentioned. Why are the oncologists up in arms? One reason is that if Burzynski has a better and safer treatment for pediatric brain tumors then these oncologists could be out of business. Why would anyone choose a less effective and more toxic treatment over one that offers a better chance of survival and a higher quality of life? Another reason is that Burzynski's approach represents something new and strange to oncologists — something they were not taught in medical school.

The greatest testaments to Burzynski's therapy are the children with brain tumors who are alive because of his treatment. There are children who had some of the most malignant brain tumors — brain stem gliomas, anaplastic astrocytomas, glioblastomas, and medulloblastomas. (To see these children, please see the Burzynski website at www.burzynskipatientgroup.org/stories.htm)

Another testament to the sound scientific basis of his therapy is the fact that some of the constituent ingredients (i.e. phenylbutyrate, phenylacetate) used in his treatment can be found in nearly every cancer laboratory and pathology department in this country. These labs all have various forms of "differentiating agents" that they keep on their shelves. These agents are added to cancer cells in vitro (e.g. in a test tube) to help the pathologist or researcher determine what kind of cancer cell they are working with.

Cancer cells are generally cells that are more primitive and have not yet "grown up" to become fully functioning normal body cells. This process of growing up is called "differentiation" because the primitive cancer cell "differentiates" or "grows up" into a mature cell. Many years ago, biochemists discovered that there are substances that can be added to cancer cells to make them differentiate. These substances are primarily peptides and hormones (natural chemicals found in the human body). Examples include butyric acid, thyroid hormone, and phenylbutyrate. Using a microscope, researchers take cancer cells, add a small amount of differentiating agent, and watch as the primitive cell matures — brain cancer cells metamorphosize into brain cells, liver cancer cells turn into liver cells, breast cancer cells turn into breast cells, etc. This scientific process is well known and is a useful tool for scientists who want to pinpoint the cell type of a particular cancer. After the cancer cells differentiate they soon die because unlike cancer cells, normal cells are not immortal. As a biochemist, Burzynski was aware of this phenomenon and the use of this common laboratory tool. He began to wonder if these peptides would do the same job in vivo (in the human body) that they do in vitro (in the test tube).

At Baylor University in Houston, Texas, Burzynski tested the blood and urine of cancer patients and healthy patients and found that healthy human beings carry these differentiating peptides in minute but steady and predictable amounts. However, cancer patients often had none of these peptides. Burzynski asked the logical question — what would happen if a person with cancer were given these peptides? Would the peptides differentiate and cause the cancer cells in the patient's body to die the same way they differentiate and cause the cancers cells to die in test tubes across America? Burzynski began his studies in terminal patients and found that indeed the theory worked.

According to the book The Burzynski Breakthrough by Thomas D. Elias (ISBN 1-57544-018-0), Burzynski's first two cancer patients were Emma Avadassian and Billy Bryant. Both were treated in 1976. Emma was 55 years old and had renal (kidney) cancer. She had already undergone chemotherapy and radiation and had been sent home to die. Emma would pass away in 1977. An autopsy would reveal that she died from a kidney infection, not cancer. Billy was thirteen years old and had bone cancer. He had undergone months of chemo but the cancer had returned and spread. Oncologists at the University of Florida at Gainesville predicted that he would not live long enough to reach Burzynski. However, after starting Burzynski's treatment, Billy's cancer began to recede. When he stopped the treatment in mid-1977 the cancer returned. Oncologists insisted on restarting chemo warning Billy's family that Burzynski's therapy was unproven. The family agreed to put the child back on chemo and he died later that year. A third patient, Robert Steed, a Wichita Falls businessman was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He did not want to be treated with chemo or radiation and instead started on the Burzynski therapy. He lived normally until he died 10 years later of a heart attack at the age of 65.

Over the next 24 years, Dr. Burzynski has treated many patients. Robert E. Burdick, MD, a Seattle oncologist and faculty member of the University of Washington Medical School analyzed the results of some of these patients. Although he refuses to speak about the Burzynski therapy today, in 1997 he wrote:

"It is very rare, currently, to ever get a complete remission or cure in a patient who has a malignant brain tumor, using our standard modalities of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy…As a rough estimate, neurosurgeons do well to cure one in every 1,000 brain-cancer patients they operate on. Radiation therapy slows the growth of adult tumors, gaining perhaps one month of life, and again may result in a cure in only one in 500-1,000 patients…Similarly chemotherapy research, despite 30 years of clinical trials, has not resulted in the development of a single drug or drug combination that elicits more than an occasional transient response in primary brain tumors…The responses (with Burzynski's treatment) are far in excess of any prior series of patients published in the medical literature…a response rate here is an astounding 81%, with an equally astounding 35% complete remission rate. Such remission rates are far in excess of anything I or anyone else has seen since research work on brain tumors began."

Burzynski's therapy is non-poisonous to the body and, as a biological agent and not a cytotoxic (cell-killing) agent, it represents a more sophisticated approach to cancer than either chemotherapy or radiation - the two post-surgical orthodox treatments offered by conventional medicine. However, because of the FDA, Burzynski has to turn away many terminal children like Alexander who come to him for help. Why is that? One possibility is that if Burzynski could accept Alexander and children like him who have not been pre-treated with chemo and radiation and who are currently tumor-free, then his cure rate would surely increase. According to oncologists, after a child with a malignant brain tumor has been injected with chemo and/or exposed to radiation the tumor returns with a vengeance and then nothing short of a miracle will save that child. When Alexander's cancer returned while he was on chemotherapy, his single tumor turned into 30 tumors that covered his brain and spine and he died within two weeks.

In other words, by only allowing Burzynski to treat children whose cancers have returned and spread, the FDA has cleverly and significantly decreased Burzynski's success rate. Why would the FDA want to do such a thing? Why would the FDA cost children their lives?

One of the reasons may be the inherent conflict of interest that exists within the FDA. For example, the FDA bureaucrat who said "no" to Alexander in 1998 was Dr. Robert DeLap. DeLap came from two large drug companies. The bureaucrat who has replaced him, Dr. Richard Pazdur, comes from one of the largest cancer hospitals in America - MD Anderson in Texas. MD Anderson has millions of dollars invested in treating patients with chemo and radiation. Recently, Pazdur told the parents of four-year old Thomas Navarro, a child diagnosed with exactly the same brain tumor as Alexander, that Burzynski cannot treat the boy. You can see Thomas Navarro website at www.cancerbusters.com.

As a revenue producer, cancer is one of the largest industries in this country. (Multiply the number of victims per year, which is well over one million, by the average cost of treatment — tens and more often hundreds of thousands of dollars.) From a simply economic standpoint, Burzynski's therapy is a better product — it is not toxic to the body and it is probably a more effective treatment against cancer. But every year, chemotherapy and radiation gross tens of billions of dollars for the drug companies and the medical establishment. If Dr. Burzynski's treatment was accessible, consider the market share it would take from chemo and radiation. It would cost the drug companies, the cancer hospitals and the oncologists astounding amounts of income.

Burzynski's therapy is not a magic bullet and it certainly does not succeed in every patient. However, it has extended or saved the lives of many patients, many of them children with brain cancer. If you are a parent of a child with a brain tumor we encourage you to do your own research and come to your own conclusion regarding this innovative therapy. Consider visiting the clinic. Talk to the patients and their families, the nurses and doctors. The book The Burzynski Breakthrough is another source of information. Remember if your child has a "terminal" disease this means that orthodox medicine has labeled your child as one who will probably die despite their best efforts. In such a situation in makes sense to do your own research and come to your own conclusion about other options that may give your child a fighting chance. Be aware, however, that if you choose this therapy, the FDA may not allow your child to have access to it and the oncologists may want to use legal means if parents refuse to subject their children to the standard of care — chemotherapy and/or radiation.

I speak from my experience as the mother of a child diagnosed with a deadly cancer, who was saved by Dr. Burzynski's antineoplaston treatment. I know that Dr. Burzynski is legitimate. I have my 30 year old son, Paul, as living proof of that fact. When Paul was 4 he was diagnosed with an inoperable, malignant brain tumor. It was biopsied but was so entwined in his brain that it was not able to be debulked. We were told by doctors that Paul would not live to age 10. We refused radiation treatment after the doctors told us that it would NOT increase Paul's length of life, and that it would seriously debilitate him. Instead, we saw Dr. Burzynski and Paul received Antineoplastons. The treatment was lengthy but Paul did not suffer from side effects. He did not lose his appetite or hair. His tumor gradually got smaller and smaller. Now there is just a tiny mark on the scan which may be scar tissue or calcification where once was, according to Dr. Kelly, formerly of the Mayo Clinic, "the largest tumor I have ever seen in anyone of any age."

Many people have characterized Dr. Burzynski as a witch doctor or fake. On the contrary, he is the epitome of a true scientist, ground-breaking doctor, and great humanitarian. I am so grateful for Dr. Burzynski. My son is "neurologically normal in every way" (quote from Dr. Cohen at the Cleveland Clinic) thanks to Antineoplaston treatment which did not harm him as conventional treatments so often do.

In early March 2004, I started getting headaches. They slowly got worse. My Primary Care Physician was out of town so I went to his partner twice. He decided it was the diet that I was following. The headaches continued to get worse and my wife mentioned that I also seemed to be depressed. In April the headaches were very painful and I was having trouble with simple Excel spreadsheets. I went to see my Doctor and the resulting Cat Scans and X-rays revealed a growth in my brain. I was admitted to the San Diego Naval Medical Center and a craniotomy was performed on 27 April, 2004.

The surgery results showed that I had a GBM brain tumor (Glio Blastoma Multiforme Stage IV). The Doctor advised me I had 3-6 months to live.

The post surgery MRI follow up revealed that there was still part of the GBM remaining. A second craniotomy was performed on 26 May. I then started approximately six weeks of radiation and chemo treatments. At the end of the radiation treatment another MRI was conducted. I was advised that a second GBM tumor had grown IN SPITE of the radiation and chemo.

I was referred by the Navy Medical System to UCLA and a brain tumor specialist. This doctor recommended several new clinical studies that they were conducting. My wife and family were researching other options and found The Burzynski Clinic. None of the other clinical trials that we reviewed showed the success of Dr. Burzynski’s many years of research. We chose to go with the Burzynski Clinic against the recommendations of all our physicians. I must point out here that there were a number of success stories on the Burzynski website, but no one with whom we could actually have a conversation that had gone through the treatment.

Due to the fact that the tumor was growing so quickly, we were racing against time. We traveled to The Burzynski Clinic and walked in not knowing very much about the actual process and treatment. But absolutely everyone that we met or interacted with at the clinic was fantastic and very professional. They made us feel at ease and answered our questions. The process started with a very long interview because I would be participating in a FDA clinical trial. This was good news because Dr. Burzynski was listed under Quack Watch on the internet at that time and we were somewhat concerned with the quality and reliability of the treatments.

A prospective patient needs to know that the treatment is a 24 hour seven day a week process for at least six months. You MUST have a care giver who is willing to give that level of support and deal with the long term stress. My treatment lasted for 6 months. The first MRI was about one month after starting treatment and revealed a 22% reduction in the size of the tumor. Subsequent MRIs revealed a continuous decrease in size of both tumors until they were finally dead and just scar tissue. And they have remained that way!

My quality of life during the treatment went steadily down hill. When I started I was 59 years old, a former Marine and in very good physical condition. I traveled, surfed and exercised extensively. However, in three months, I became so weak that I needed a wheelchair. Also during the treatments my immune system faded rapidly and I became very susceptible to infections and other disorders such as diabetes. Some were quiet serious (life threatening) and many were just very painful. At the six month mark, my oncologist advised me that I needed to stop The Burzynski Clinic treatment or I would be dead from one of the many side effects that I was fighting. (I had been admitted to the hospital on two separate occasions at that time; once for a heart problem and once for a liver problem.)

During and after the treatment, I had the most trouble with the steroid Decadron. This medicine was critical to my treatment as it was required to keep my brain from swelling. Although it was a necessary drug, it wrecked havoc on my body and mind. Decadron caused me to go from eating voraciously, to not wanting to eat at all and then back to eating everything. I also had nightmares that were very disturbing. Decadron caused several personality changes, to include agitation, anger and it made me VERY difficult to live with. This was a major challenge to my wife (my caregiver). Slowly I was weaned off Decadron, which was a difficult, but the bloated face and body subsided and my strength came back over time.

I need to point out that we adopted several different avenues to help me recover. Of course lots of prayers from family and friends of every faith were very important. Diet was HUGELY important and we ate as much organic food as possible. My wife juiced organic vegetables and I stayed away from sugar. I had acupuncture treatments in order to help my immune system when I was physically able to get there. Dr. Burzynski’s treatment took care of the physical aspects; however, a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE (PMA) was/is critical. In my opinion, this helped me beat the GBM and the many side effects that I had to get through. On one hand, I had the numerous MRI reports showing the positive benefits that the treatment was providing and on the other, I had a Positive Mental Attitude that I could beat this GBM cancer. I also focused on the tumors disappearing by using different visualizations. I visualized myself back in the ocean and surfing whenever I became depressed and kept this goal in mind.

It has been just over six years since I was first diagnosed. I am fullyrecovered. I am back in the water relearning how to surf. I walk the dog daily, we are traveling again and life is VERY good. I owe Dr. Burzynski, his staff, and my wife, family and friends a tremendous debt of gratitude that I can never hope to repay. So if I can help you, I would appreciate that opportunity to pass on all the support that I received.

In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain, or to damage another individual. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people, or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g., in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain.

There are some people who feel Dr. Burzynski is a fraud, quack or scam artist. Dr. Burzynski because of his ground breaking discovery of Antineoplaston, a treatment for cancer, he has been the target of insults, threats, legal threats, and a smear of his name and medical practice. Ironically, Dr. Burzynski has been tried multiple times in court for fraud, which was an apparent attack and smear campaign by several government institutions, such as the FDA, to silence or destroy the reputation of Dr. Burzynski. Here are quotes from some of the jurors to the court case:

Jury foreman John Coan, who favored acquittal, said he was disturbed that the government portrayed Burzynski as a victimizer, but no insurance company representative, or former patient came forward claiming to have been victimized.

"I couldn't find any victims," Coan said. "I think this was a government witch hunt," said juror Sharon Wray.

Below is a clip from a 1996 Congressional subcomittee hearing. You decide for yourself if you think Dr. Burzynski is a fraud, and if his Antineoplaston's are a Fraudulent discovery in science.

The comments below are directed towards a question posted at Yahoo Answers. If you would like to speak with a past, present, or future Burzynski patient please visit the website at www.burzynskipatientgroup.org.

There is no question Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's treatment is legitimate. Even the FDA now recognizes it as the most promising treatment against two types of brain tumors, having awarded the antineoplaston treatment orphan designation two years ago. The treatment has completed both Phase I and Phase II FDA clinical trials, with a multi-center, world-wide Phase III trial in the works soon. Dr. Burzynski has successfully treated thousands of patients with his treatment over the last 33 years.

The treatment, often administered intravenously, consists of peptides (combinations of amino acids that occur naturally in human blood and urine, but are often not found in cancer patients) that were unknown until Dr. Burzynski discovered them in the late 1960s. In the early years of the treatment, Dr. B distilled the peptides from human urine and cured many brain tumors, prostate, breast and liver cancers, among others. The advent of mass spectroscopy techniques allowed him to begin synthesizing the peptides in his own manufacturing facility starting in the early 1980s. That plant has operated under FDA supervision for more than 25 years.

It is true that Dr. B was persecuted by the FDA for almost 30 years, part of an effort to steal the drug which I have documented in my book "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promsing Cancer Treatment and the Government's campaign to Squelch It" (now available in a softcover fourth printing at Amazon.com).

See the book also for complete information on how this treatment works and case histories of cancer victims who have been in remission for many years. As a further note, nothing could be more false than the claim that all the persons who appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael show referenced in another entry here are dead. In fact, two of them are among the case histories I detailed in the book.

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It would be more telling if the people he's treated were claiming that his methodology didn't help them, rather than armchair critics with no personal knowledge -- casual opinions are cheap. Mainstream media takes in millions of dollars of advertising revenue from drug companies, which tends to grossly influence the nature and type of reporting about non-mainstream medicine. The real question is: can conventional medicine deliver guaranteed 100% effective cures for cancer? Of course not. Statistics show quite the opposite -- chemo and radiation cause more devastation to the patient and either kill people quicker, or are a sham that generates huge revenues for the drug companies. Or are they also providing free treatments to prove their humanitarian connection?So when it comes to non-conventional cancer treatments where does anyone get off trying to imply that everyone in this field is a con artist? I doubt Burzynski would still be attracting patients if he wasn't able to demonstrate a high cure rate to prospective patients and they're the ones who count.

Yes, Stanislaw Burzynski, the Burzynski Research Institute and antineoplaston therapy is legitimate. In short, I experienced this legitimacy due to three years of aggressive conventional therapy including,

1) local radiation
2) VAD, cytoxan chemotherapy and a
3) peripheral blood stem cell transplantI relapsed in 9/96, underwent more local radiation, relapsed again in 10/97 was told "nothing more can be done" by my onc and then began antineoplaston therapy (intravenous) for 10 months then capsules for 7 months. Achieved complete remission by 4/99 and I have remained cancer free ever since- no medicine, no therapies.

Dr. Burzynski is a wonderful man who saved my son's life and the lives of many cancer patients. His non-toxic approach to the treatment of the most deadly cancers is much more effective than what conventional medicine has to offer.
Many people have characterized Dr. Burzynski as a witch doctor or fake. On the contrary, he is the epitome of a true scientist, ground-breaking doctor, and great humanitarian.

I am so grateful for Dr. Burzynski. My son is "neurologically normal in every way" (quote from Dr. Cohen at the Cleveland Clinic) thanks to Antineoplaston treatment which did not harm him as conventional treatments so often do.

My research comes from direct observation of my mom's treatment at Burzynski Clinic!!! She is living proof it works!

My mom has been and is being treated by Dr Burzynski and his staff at Burzynski Clinic. My mom should have died the end of July 2010. She is alive and her cancer is dying and going away. Our specialists in our state are in awe at my mom. No one with her cancer has survived traditional treatment. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Adenocarcinoma (two large masses) with 42 mets in her brain, mets in her spine, and lymph glands. Her lungs are clear of cancer, her spine and lymph glands are clear of cancer and her mets are well over 60% gone from her brain. She has not had all the horrible side effects she would have had with traditional treatment... in fact a "regular" physician almost killed her with creating a staph infection in her lung during a biopsy... other than that... the only side effect she has had was the loss of her hair, and that was because of the radiation they had to do to give Burzynski a little bit more time to get his treatment going. Every day she had till getting treatment in Texas was critical for her. So here we are 7 months later... and she is still alive... and as a BSN, RN for almost 20 years... I am a true believer in Dr Burzynski. Even if mom was to lose to the cancer battle... she has had quality life, and hasn't suffered the torture cancer patients have to endure!!! Why would anyone want to be tortured for 9% chance of "cure" when you can go to Dr Burzynski have little to no side effects from the medications, live a fullfilled life, and be one of the 29% that never has cancer return!!! The medical community has a lot to lose with Dr Burzynski's success... cancer drugs are big business. Those who call him a "quack" have a hidden agenda.... Do you realize that the Drs who pioneered handwashing, antibiotic medications, and sterile procedures for better medicine were also considered "quacks" by other so-called "professionals" "specialists" and "highly recognized people"??? Where would we be in medicine without those who dared to challenge and fight against the name calling crap flingers???

Comment by Maryjo Siegel

My name is Maryjo Siegel and everyone needs to know about Dr Burzynski and his safe and effective treatments for cancer. Dr. Burzynski has been treating cancer patients for over 35 years!

Dr. Burzynski is under FDA monitored clinical trials. I was so fortunate to be a patient of Dr. Burzynski over 20 years ago. I had been diagnosed with stage 4 non hodgkins lymphoma. I was told by 7 lymphoma specialists that I would die of NHL. A bone marrow transplant was prescribed for me, a procedure that included high dose chemo and massive radiation - Heart , lungs, kidney and liver would all be affected. After doing research, I learned that one out of 10 patients died from complications of the transplant. I had 3 young children at the time and I wanted desperately wanted to see them grow up. My husband and I continued our research, and we learned about Dr. Burzynski who was treating non Hodgkins lymphoma with good results. Treating with a non toxic therapy!!! We were on a flight to Houston immediately.

The rest of the story is my miracle. It is posted on the Burzynski patient web sitewww.burzynskipatientgroup.org. My medical records are there too. I just returned from the clinic for my annual check up. All my tests and scans were great! I met lots of new patients while I was there, patients who had hope. Miracles happen at the Burzynski Clinic.

Before you slander someone's good name you need to do your research! Dr. Burzynski has had his oral form of antineoplastons (A10 & AS21) approved by the FDA for off-label use, and that was only after years that they spent fighting against him to try to STOP his treatments from being widely used AND widely known. And I'd like to emphasize that his treatments are NON-TOXIC. This is just one of the many reasons that he (and anyone like him) who proposes a NON-TOXIC therapy for cancer is immediately attacked and slandered. It is because Big Pharma generates BILLIONS of dollars a year dispensing their very TOXIC chemo drugs out to millions of people around the world on a daily basis. And for the person above who commented about the extraction of antineoplastons as a urine derivative, you need to re-read that article above about PREMARIN. Premarin is an extract of pregnant mare's urine, and it has been prescribed to millions of women around the globe. It has numerous potentially deadly side effects - side effects like blood clots, CANCER, stroke, and heart attacks! Your doctor will put you on Premarin at the drop of a hat, and NEVER tell you that there are NATURAL bio-identical hormones that you can get at any health food store or compounding pharmacist that will NOT KILL you like Premarin could, OR cause cancer like Premarin can!

Dr. Burzynski has had great success at curing some of the most deadly, aggressive cancers in the world, including so-called "terminal" malignant brain cancers, even those diagnosed in very young children. The FDA allowed clinical trials for Dr. Burzynski and placed him under much more stringent requirements than any major DRUG company ever had to go through, hoping to defeat him. He has always managed to come out on top and they eventually approved the oral form of his antineoplastons (A10 and AS2-1) for off-label use when he managed to follow their clinical trials to the letter, in spite of the fact that they tried for years to discredit and bury him! Dr. Burzynski has successfully cured many cases of deadly cancers. He has treated more than 8,000 people with his non-toxic therapy, yet most cancer patients are NEVER told about him by their local oncologist.

I personally know people who have been successfully treated with antineoplastons. One such friend is from Lexington, Ky, who was only 13 when he was first discovered to have an inoperable brain stem tumor. It changed into a high-grade brain stem glioma and his parents were told by Brigham and Women's, University of Michigan, MD Anderson, and John Hopkins, as well as the Henry Ford Brain Tumor Center, that he was terminal. Even his own neurosurgeon told his parents to just allow him to die because he felt that the side effects of either radiation or chemo would totally devastate him and bring his quality of life to below sub-standard with little hope of ever living out a normal life. His parents chose Burzynski's antineoplastons and declined any other treatment. That was back in 1994. Today that little boy is 30 years old. He has finished high school and college and is living a normal, active life without experiencing a return of his cancer! You can read his story and many others that have been successfully treated by Dr. Burzynski athttp://www.burzynskipatientgroup.org.

And lest you think I am exaggerating in the least about Big Pharma, do some of the research on what happened with the fiasco when it was discovered that VIOXX was killing people. Read about the emails that were flying back and forth between MERCK executives who developed a list of physicians (who complained about their drug injuring their patients) that they planned to elimate to shut them up! They were making several billion a year on the drug before the FDA pulled it off the market! How many of THOSE drug executives have you heard of doing any jail time? They've been trying to get jail time for Dr. Burzysnki for more than 30 years for trying to promote a non-toxic cancer treatment, which would replace the deadly chemo-killing billion-dollar-drug industry! Do you think he has a lot of friends at big Pharma? When was the last time you went to your physician's office with a medical problem that they DID NOT pull out a prescription pad and try to treat you with a drug that has potentially WORSE SIDE EFFECTS than the symptoms you are having? Most standard chemo drugs wipe out the immune system. You need a good strong immune system to get you well. Dr. Burzynski's antineoplastons do not obliterate the body's natural immunity, and this is what the toxic chemo drug manufacturers cannot tolerate! They cannot stand the competition from a product that will HEAL the body of cancer without killing the patient in the process! That is the REAL unforgiveable "CRIME" that they consider Dr. Burzynski guilty of that they cannot and WILL NOT tolerate!

In order to find out an answer within science, it's important to simply look to see if there has been any genuine peer-reviewed medical journals published about that issue. In Burzynski's case there has been countless such articles.

The USA Food and Drug Administration has supervised the completion of Phase 2 trials of Burzynski's Antineoplastons, which proves safety and efficacy under the most strictest of conditions. Phase 3 trials are the third and final Phase before reaching approval for the public. If Burzynski is a fraud, then that means all drugs on the market today that are approved for public use as well as all drugs currently in phase 2 and 3 trials are also frauds.

Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. One form of cancer - diffuse, intrinsic, childhood brainstem glioma has never before been cured in any scientifically controlled clinical trial in the history of medicine. Antineoplastons hold the first cures in history - dozens of them.

Here are some examples showing brainstem glioma treated with antineoplaston and other treatment:

The person (Tyler) that made the comment about "urine" - well, extracting things from the urine is a common medical modality. Tens of millions of women swallow extracts of pregnant horse urine, PREMARIN every day, and have so for decades. In Asia, drugs extracted from urine is a very common practice. But here in the USA there is a bizarre phobia about it, sort of like people afraid of ghosts or alligators hiding under the bed.

In the future, instead of posing a question on Yahoo Answers about this, it might be easier and more accurate to read the english language within the medical literature about this treatment, namely the articles written about the Phase 2 clinical trials supervised and authorized by the FDA.

There is also an entire documentary—from which you may have seen some of these YouTube clips, with a fully interactive transcript of the entire film with all sources used in the film + plus much more:

I have been cancer free for the past 6 years and this coming May it will be 7 years. I am now 20 years old and am going to collage to get my Physical Therapist Assistants degree. I recently just had a baby boy. I named him Chase Devin Buford. He was born on July 10th, 2004. Weighing 7 pounds 14 1/2 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches tall. He is now 4 months and is a hand full, but I love every bit of it.

As far as my family goes my mom and dad are doing great. Right now they're pretty busy with work and my two younger brothers. Who are in every extra curricular activity imaginable. Willy my middle brother is now 16 and will be turning 17 this March. Kevin my youngest brother is now 7 and he will be turning 8 this January.

I don't know where I would be without my family, the Buryzinski Clinic, and the people who were willing to take time aside to help me when I needed it the most. I am glad that through my trial of life I was able to make relationships and bonds that will never be broken. I hope to continue strengthening these relationships.

Jessi has finished antineoplaston therapy as of February 1999, when she stopped taking a maintenance dosage of antineoplastons in capsule form.

Jessi's mom, Robin, says anyone wanting information about Dr. Burzynski's treatment can call her at 417-886-6145.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM EVERYONE IN THE PATIENTS GROUP, JESSI. ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK HAS PAID OFF!

Roosevelt told a stunned and grieving nation, "This is a day that will live in infamy." My day of infamy is March 27, 1996, the day that my beautiful blue-eyed-daughter Jessica was diagnosed with a malignant brain stem tumor that was inoperable.

In a shaky voice, the doctor explained that a tiny pea-sized monster invading the center of her head was responsible for plaguing my 11-year-old with double vision that came on so quickly. Jessi had a brain stem glioma, the second most common cause of death in children in the United States. There is no cure for this type of cancer. Her life expectancy was 8 to 18 months.

The doctors said that the standard course of treatment was radiation and chemotherapy. Not only would Jessi be horribly ill from the side effects of these conventional treatments, she would die in a matter of months. She would die with or without treatment.

The doctor left the room as my husband Dan held me tight. My heart had shattered, and the intense pain in the pit of my stomach would not quit. But I refused to accept this fate. Tears streaming down my face, I whispered in Dan's ear, "We're not going to lose out little girl!"

I will never forget that moment when I decided death was not an option. To save Jessi meant declaring war on her illness. We had to control the cancer, not let it control us. I told God I knew there was hope for Jessi, I just needed help finding it. I prayed for strength every day as I spent endless hours educating myself on brain tumors, nutrition, and alternative cancer therapies.

I made hundreds of phone calls, searched the Internet and libraries, and read everything I could get my hands on. Finally, one sunny April afternoon, a red booklet arrived in the mail. A wave of emotion swept over me as I looked through it. I knew God had given us the path for Jessi to take.

The booklet came from Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski in Houston, Texas. It contained information about a medicine he developed called antineoplastons. Antineoplastons are a safe nontoxic cancer therapy that has almost no side effects. At the time, antineoplastons had been used for over 18 years with excellent success in treating Jessi's type of cancer. Within 6 weeks of starting therapy, her double vision disappeared. She continued to go to school, ride her bike, and play basketball with her 8-year-old brother Willy.

Dan and I were overjoyed! Jessi's illness no longer threatened her life, and we had such a wonderful reason to celebrate! Ironically, we did not know that a storm was brewing. The cancer was no longer a threat, but our federal government and our health insurance carrier were. We were soon caught in the middle of a raging war to defend Jessi's doctor from the fury of the Food and Drug Administration. As if that were not enough to deal with, we were also forced to take on Aetna Health Insurance in a major legal battle for not approving medical coverage for Jessi's antineoplaston therapy.

Since 1983, the FDA has attacked the Burzynski Clinic with repeated abuse, harassment, red tape, and four federal indictments. The first three failed to prove any wrongdoing. However, the fourth indictment was the government's most vindictive attempt to put Dr. Burzynski out of business.

The fourth indictment resulted in an illegal raid of the Clinic, confiscation of thousands of documents and records, and two criminal trials. To date, none of the documents or records have been returned to the Clinic. The terrifying reality was that the government agency designed to protect the public was not the slightest bit concerned for the life of my daughter. Neither was the FDA concerned about the lives of 300 other desperate patients with cancer, who had neither hope nor any remaining treatment options.

The FDA seemed interested only in silencing the most promising cancer breakthrough of the century. It made absolutely no sense to me that one branch of the FDA gave Dr. Burzynski full approval to treat his patients with antineoplastons in Phase II clinical trials, and at the very same time, another branch had charged him with 75 counts of criminal activity and wanted to put him in jail for 290 years!

The court date was scheduled for January 1997. For months we lived under constant fear that Jessi would lose access to her life-saving medicine. If Dr. Burzynski would have been convicted on just one charge, he would have had to serve a minimum of 8 years in prison. His Clinic would have closed, cutting off all of his patients from their cancer medicine.

The insanity of this bizarre situation and saving Jessi's life forced me to become politically involved. In September of 1996, my family and I traveled to Washington, DC. Even though I was in my fifth month of pregnancy, I knew how important it was for us to make the trip. We attended and spoke at a rally in front of the White House with 75 supporters from the Burzynski Patient Group.

We also met with several US Senators and Congressmen. Our common goal was to save the lives of the people we love. We were trying to stop the upcoming federal trial by asking the Senate and the House to mandate FDA reform. In spite of all our lobbying efforts and hard work, the trial proceeded as planned.

The first trial began in Houston on January 6, 1997. The terrible crime Dr. Burzynski was alleged to have committed was using his unapproved medicine to save the lives of patients with cancer who did not live in Texas. A fellow Burzynski patient approached prosecuting attorney Michael Clark. She questioned Mr. Clark point blank, asking him if the government had made provisions for patients to continue to receive antineoplastons should Dr. Burzynski be sent to prison. Mr. Clark's comment: "No that's not my responsibility, I'm just doing my job." This attitude was also the defense of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials after the Holocaust.

Currently, Jessi is a healthy 14-year-old and remains in remission. On March 25, 1998, she was able to stop using the IV infusion pump. For a year and half, Jessi received her antineoplaston treatment as a slow intravenous drip through a chest catheter, 22 hours a day. She wore a small purse-sized back pack that contained her battery-operated pump and two IV bags. Even though the pump was an inconvenience, it saved her life!

After graduating off the pump, Jessi took antineoplastons in capsule form (48 pills a day) as a maintenance dosage. Jessi stopped taking the capsules in February of this year.

Since Jessi was diagnosed, I have learned so much about myself as a parent. I learned that I have an unending supply of strength and courage. When it comes to saving my daughter, I will move mountains and make the impossible happen.

Antineoplastons are nontoxic, naturally occurring peptides, amino acid derivatives, and organic acids that fight cancer with few if any side effects. Traditional radiation therapy and chemotherapies poison cancer cells and healthy cells as well; antineoplastons cause no harm to healthy cells. Although the detailed mechanism by which antineoplastons work is unknown, they may act as biochemical microswitches to turn off the genes that cause cancer, called oncogenes, and activate the genes that fight cancer, called tumor suppressor genes.

In real estate the invasion of the boundary of a landowner's property is called trespass, while invasion of a patentee's claims is called infringement.Patent infringement is the unauthorized use of property. When a person or business uses your patent, they trespass on your property – your "Intellectual Property” which includes copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, and trade secrets. Under law, you have the right to pursue a civil remedy against a perpetrator of patent infringement. Both trespassing and infringements are civil wrongs or "torts." Unlike a trespass, patent infringement is a statutory wrong and is governed by federal law.

The United States Code 35 U.S.C. 271(a) defines infringement as "whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent”. The United States Code 35 U.S.C. 271(e)(2)(A) further defines an infringement as “It shall be an act of infringement to submit - as an application under section 505(j) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or described in section 505(b)(2) of such Act for a drug claimed in a patent or the use of which is claimed in a patent”. The patent infringement plaintiff is often an individual or a small business, while the patent infringement defendant is usually a large, well-financed corporation.

Infringement can be direct, indirect, or contributory. Whoever without authority makes, uses, or sells the patented invention is a direct infringer. If a person actively encourages another without authority to make, use, or sells the invention, the person persuading is liable for indirect infringement. Contributory infringement can be committed by knowingly selling or supplying an item for which the only use is in connection with a patented invention. Good faith or ignorance is no defense for direct infringement, but it may be for indirect or contributory infringement.

Patent infringement, by the Government, of privately owned patents, is governed by United States Code 28 U.S.C. 1498, which provides that a suit against the Government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims is the exclusive remedy for patent holders who allege their patented invention has been infringed by the U.S. Government or by one acting for the Government. The primary purpose of this statute is to protect and relieve contractors from any liability for infringement by the owner when an invention is used by or manufactured for the United States. By virtue of this statute, the Government may be held liable to the patent owner for payment of the "reasonable and entire compensation" for its unauthorized use of the patent. Unlike a private party, however, the Government cannot commit the tort of "patent infringement." Governmental use of a patented invention is viewed as an eminent domain taking of a license under the patent and not as a tort.

The Government may delegate its eminent domain power over patents to contractors acting on its behalf. This is accomplished through inclusion of the "Authorization and Consent" clause in the contract [FAR clause 52.227-1]. This clause is usually included in research and development contracts and is a very significant power to grant to a contractor as it makes the Government responsible for the contractors' infringement of any patents during the course of performance of the contract; the patent owner must bring her/his action against the Government, not the contractor.

Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. graduated with honors from Medical Academy in Lublin, Poland and received his M.D. degree in 1967. Subsequently, in 1968 he earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry. He did his internship and residency from 1967 to 1970. From October 1970 to 1977 he was employed by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, initially as a Research Associate and later as Assistant Professor.

While at Baylor, Dr. Burzynski’s research was sponsored and partially funded by the National Cancer Institute. Doctors associated with M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center also cooperated in this research.

On July 1, 1977, Dr. Burzynski resigned from Baylor College of Medicine and established Burzynski Research Laboratories. Over a number of years the company expanded to Burzynski Research Institute, Burzynski Clinic, and Pharmaceutical Plant. Dr. Burzynski serves as the President, Chairman of the Board of the Institute, and is the owner of the clinic and pharmaceutical plant.

Dr. Burzynski is the discoverer of antineoplastons, which are components of a complex biochemical defense system against cancer. He is also the discoverer of new treatments for cancer, viral infections including AIDS, autoimmune diseases, Parkinson’s disease, neurofibromatosis, and restenosis. Among his contributions are 242 patents, and over 300 scientific publications. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, recipient of over 20 international awards, and carries the hereditary title of Count.

My name is Sergeant Ric Schiff. I am an eleven-year veteran of the San Francisco police department. I hold the department's highest metal of honor for bravery—that used to mean a lot more to me than it does now. What I'd like to talk to you about today is—my now 7 year old daughter. This is an identical twin, her sister is now dead. Her sister, when she was 4 years old, Crystin—developed a highly malignant brain tumor that had spread throughout her spine and her brain. The doctors told us that we had really two options—take her home and let her die, or bring her in for massive dosages of chemo and radiation simultaneously. In either event she was going to die, they were quite certain of that—and very quickly.

Believing her only chance to be the standard route, we gave her the chemo and radiation. It burnt her skull so bad she had second degree burns and her hair never came back. To change her diapers we had to wear rubber gloves because her urine was so toxic and it burned her.

At the end of 6 months, miraculously she survived the standard treatment, although there was a high expectation that she wouldn't. She still had cancer. We were told "sorry, we've done everything we can, now she's going to die, probably within a couple of months." My wife and I choosing not to except that, started reading—the first book I picked up, the third chapter, discussed Dr. Burzynski.

As you may guess, I have some expertise in fraud, in fact I'm quite certain there are enough attorneys in the room that I could be ordered as an expert in fraud—and, I conducted my own investigation. I have no doubt the man is not a fraud. I have no doubt that he does what he does out of earnest belief that his medicine works. Now, you are in a position to judge for yourselves whether is works or not—but it's well established by the FDA, that it's non-toxic.

Eighteen months later, we took my daughter off the Antineoplaston—she had not died. She had no signs of tumor, she remained free for eighteen months of cancer. Within a month, her cancer was wide-spread in her brain. We put her back on Burzynski's—by the way at the objections of our doctors who for some reason felt that it had failed her. We put her back on—within nine weeks the tumor was completely gone. She died last July, of neurological necrosis—her brain fell apart from the radiation. The autopsy showed that she was completely cancer-free. Out of fifty-two cases of that disease ever, no one died cancer-free, just Cryssie.

So she didn't die of a terminal illness—she died of my inability to care for her properly and she died from bad advice. She died because there is a government institution, that disseminates false information, and is not looking out for the welfare of the people. You know, ladies and gentlemen I swore an oath eleven years ago and I think most of us in this room swore it at one time or another to uphold the constitution? It says "life" right in the beginning.

Schiff v. Prados, 92 Cal.App.4th 692, 112 Cal.Rptr.2d 171, 157 Ed. Law Rep. 264, (Cal.App. 1 Dist. 2001)

The Schiffs filed a complaint for Crystin's wrongful death against Dr. Prados and others in October 1996, alleging that Dr. Prados did not obtain their informed consent for Crystin's treatment because he failed to advise them of the antineoplaston treatment offered by Dr. Burzynski. The Schiffs alleged that had they been informed of the alternative treatment they would have refused the radiation and chemotherapy. This case informs the public that Antineoplastons are effective, and that Crystin Schiff died from radiation and chemo not Antineoplastons.

Please visit the Burzynski Patient Group website at www.burzynskipatientgroup.org. The website was developed by The Patients of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, MD. Its purpose is to collect and disseminate testimonials from some of the past and present patients of Dr. Burzynski whose cancers were successfully treated using his advanced cancer treatment.

You can request to speak with a Dr. Burzynski patient by filling out the patient contact form.

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