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...week, with a vast sigh of relief. Under last year's tightened drug-control laws, the Food and Drug Administration is at last launching an all-out investigation to answer a question that has caused savage controversy for twelve years: Is there any basis for the claims that Krebiozen, a mysterious horse-serum drug, is a cure for some forms of cancer? Though Krebiozen has never been approved by any federal agency, about 3,500 doctors have given it to about 5,000 patients. Last week FDA began gathering evidence to establish...
...burly, down-to-earth pragmatist with an earthy vocabulary, Dr. Phillips, 48, has given Krebiozen to about 300 patients -more than any other physician. He keeps aloof from the charges and countercharges about Krebiozen. He is convinced that Krebiozen helps his patients. But he frankly admits that he cannot be sure. He has neither the training nor the time-, to become a research scientist, he says...
When Hope Is Gone. Medical orthodoxy requires that before a new drug gets a formal, elaborate, wide-scale test, there must be a prima-facie case in its favor from the records of patients already treated. Dr. Ivy's cases are too few for that. The Krebiozen Foundation's records are too sketchy. So, for the New York Post, two newsmen took turns sitting down with Dr. Phillips and going through his cases. From the first 67, it was clear that no conclusive findings as to the value of Krebiozen would emerge even if all 300 were analyzed...
...most determinedly anti-Krebiozen spokesman for a leading U.S. cancer research center admits that not all of these cases can be explained away by other factors, though he still insists there is no reason to test Krebiozen further. Another expert, equally skeptical but more judicial, says: "From these cases, you can't help feeling there's something here that needs to be explained." This jibes with Dr. Phillips' tenet: "If the researchers in their ivory towers would stop bickering and get down to work, we could have some valuable information within a year, and a definite answer...
...Krebiozen may be no cure or even palliative for cancer of any kind, but a fair test would cut out most of the cancer of the Krebiozen controversy...