Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talking Suicide. One of the forces driving the movement is a growing distrust of doctors. The onslaught caught many medical associations by surprise. Convinced that the Massachusetts bill would die quickly, the state chapter of the American Cancer Society did not even bother to testify at a hearing on the proposal. Only a dietitian spoke against the bill at a hearing in Arizona. Medical societies in Oregon and Louisiana ducked the issue...
...York Psychiatrist Samuel Klagsbrun told an FDA hearing: "The sad part about it is that for an individual to leave orthodox treatment is to choose to leave their only real chance for survival. It is suicide we're talking about." The FDA has cases of women with cervical cancer who refused surgery, which has a 65% cure rate, in favor of taking Laetrile, and died. Similar cases are cited by Harvard Neurosurgeon H. Thomas Ballantine, a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He calls Laetrile "pure quackery." Says Illinois State Representative Eugenia Chapman: "Persons victimized by cancer should...
Making up for lost time, the FDA is busily assembling all of the evidence against Laetrile. To strengthen the case, the National Cancer Institute is considering testing the drug on cancer patients. FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy has organized a team of four experts to fly off at a moment's notice to testify before state legislatures. In addition, says Richard Merrill, FDA chief counsel: "We are likely to be more aggressive in enlightening the general public." The agency's lawyers are preparing to mount court challenges against the sale or production of Laetrile under the new state laws...
LAETRILE, an extract from crushed apricot pits that releases minute amounts of cyanide in the body. The drug's propagandists claim that it helps prevent cancer, reduces tumors and relieves pain. Despite the FDA ban, anyone who wants to eat crushed apricot kernels-sometimes sold as "vitamin B17"-can legally buy them in some health-food stores...
SACCHARIN. After laboratory rats that consumed enormous amounts of it developed cancer, the FDA proposed banning saccharin from commercially prepared foods and beverages but allowing its sale as a nonprescription drug...