Advocates call hydrazine sulfate a safe, effective cancer drug.
Critics call it just one more false hope.
This is the standard rhetoric of supporters of many alternative cancer treatments. In this case, advocates of the drug hydrazine sulfate say the National Cancer Institute doesn't want to give it a fair test. Advocates say hydrazine sulfate combats cancer's wasting effect on the body and that it halts or shrinks tumors. Kathy Keeton Guccione, the wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and a media executive in her own right, opted for hydrazine sulfate instead of chemotherapy when she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 1995. She embarked on a media campaign to promote hydrazine sulfate, and she set up a World Wide Web site to advise cancer patients and their families about the drug and how to take it.