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Cancer may be nature's most devastating army of destruction, but interferon [March 31] may be the untapped defense that the princelings of medicine-health professionals and researchers-need to increase the odds for victory...
...moved to tears by your article on interferon. As a registered nurse, I have worked with many patients suffering from "the world's most terrifying and psychologically daunting disease." My motivation as I campaign for cancer society funds has been intensified...
There is an obvious reason why we do not have enough interferon today. The reason was (and partially still is) the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research, a set of regulations that in the U.S. prevented timely research on the cloning of human DNA for the purpose of making interferon efficiently and cheaply. These regulations still discourage and delay research on and production of future lifesaving medical products because of unfounded and silly fears of hypothetical and highly unlikely scenarios. It is high time to declare a moratorium on the N.I.H. guidelines...
...exciting as interferon research appears to be, it is, like most modern medicine, on the wrong track. Chemicals in the environment-food preservatives, air pollution, industrial solvents, chlorinated pesticides, radiation, tobacco smoke, etc. -are the causes of many cases of cancer. Why concentrate on the cure when the cause is the problem...
Inevitably, some anguished cancer victims will suspect that interferon is being hoarded for use by favored patients. But, says one doctor, "the sad and brutal fact is that if my own mother didn't meet the protocol, she could not get interferon today...