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...named Ernest T. Krebs Sr., M.D., first administered the drug in the twenties and Dr. Krebs junior followed his father in 1951, and claimed he could effectively inject the stuff. Trouble is, laetrile breaks down into cyanide, and the Food and Drug Administration has never approved its use. The FDA also says that it can't allow the marketing of quack medicines...
What makes laetrile so in demand is what the Krebs claimed was its "antineoplastic" activity. That means it's supposed to shrink tumor growth, or as they say in medicine, cure cancer. People who are convinced laetrile will arrest their cancers sometimes manage to get around the FDA, and one particularly desperate man in Oklahoma City who won a case last month was granted a six-month supply of laetrile. The FDA is fighting the verdict...
...FDA requires extensive tests of a drug on animals before it will approve the chemical for human administration. Even that approval, however, is for very limited use until investigations prove the drug's effectiveness. Wayne Pines, a spokesman for the federal agency, says the FDA has approved 25 drugs for commerical distribution in the treatment of cancer, and has granted licenses for the experimental investigation of another 175 chemicals...
...Labeling. Two months after both reports were published in a May issue of the British Medical Journal, the FDA's advisory committee on obstetrics and gynecology (ten M.D.s, one Ph.D.) met and concluded that a warning was justified. Among British-as well as American-women aged 30 to 39 who do not use the Pill, the incidence of nonfatal heart attacks is only 2.1 per 100,000. But for those on the Pill, the rate rises to 5.6 per 100,000. For women aged 40 to 44, the rates for the two groups are 9.9 and 56.9 respectively. Similar...
...FDA announced that it intends to require the inclusion of an appropriate warning in the labeling of oral contraceptives. But this "labeling" does not refer to the little sticker that the pharmacist puts on the bottle or box of pills. It refers to the fine-print technical information that drug companies supply only to pharmacists, doctors and to the publisher of the widely used book, Physicians' Desk Reference. Thus it will still be up to the conscientious doctor to convey the warning to his patients...