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Nothing in the recent history of medicine has been more frustrating to doctors and patients alike than the continuing controversy over the so-called anticancer drug, Krebiozen. Described by its promoter, Yugoslav-born Dr. Stevan Durovic, as a substance he had extracted from the blood of horses infected with "lumpy jaw," it was proclaimed by Chicago's famed Dr. Andrew Conway Ivy as a promising palliative in the treatment of some forms of can cer. But Krebiozen won the majority of its friends from among desperate patients and the handful of physicians who were treating them...
...Food and Drug Administration got samples from Durovic for testing, and eventually came to the conclusion that they contained nothing but creatine monohydrate, a common body chemical of no medicinal value. The stuff would cost 8? for the minuscule dose used, and Durovic's "not-for-profit" Krebiozen Research Foundation was getting a "contribution" of $9.50 for each shot. The FDA banned the shipment of Krebiozen in interstate commerce...
After 131 years of medical claims and counterclaims, of whodunit-style charges and countercharges, the loud controversy over the alleged anti-cancer drug Krebiozen seemed headed at last toward orderly disposition. A federal grand jury in Chicago handed up an 85-page indictment listing 49 counts against Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, 71, three associates and a corporation. The charges ranged from mail fraud and conspiracy to mislabeling and making false statements to Government agencies about the drug...
...fewer than 44 of the counts named Dr. Ivy himself, a noted physiologist who was formerly the University of Illinois' vice president of professional colleges. Indicted with him were: Dr. Stevan Durovic, who claimed to have first made Krebiozen in Argentina from the blood of horses; Dr. William F. P. Phillips, a general practitioner; and the Krebiozen Research Foundation. Among the grand jury's allegations: - > Stevan Durovic offered to make 15 grams of Krebiozen for the National Cancer Institute at $170,000 a gram, though Krebiozen is creatine monohydrate, a common chemical costing 300 a gram-and "even...
While chemists were concluding that the controversial cancer drug Krebiozen is nothing but the common body chemical, creatine, a committee of 24 medical experts was checking the histories of 504 patients who were said to have benefited from the drug. Last week the committee reported unanimously that Krebiozen is ineffective. The National Cancer Institute said there will be no government-sponsored trial of Krebiozen-the case is closed...