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Roby
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We at VitaminB17.org are deeply concerned that information about vitamin 
therapy to prevent and treat cancer be available to the public. To that end, 
the book WORLD WITHOUT CANCER - The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward 
Griffin (Westlake Village, California: American Media, 1997. ISBN 
0-912986-19-0) is available for sale through this site. However, we realize 
that many interested people may not have time or resources to read the book 
in its entirety, which we highly recommend. Therefore, we are quoting the 
brief synopsis printed at the beginning of each chapter. In addition, we are 
summarizing key points from the chapters, including succinct quotes from 
Griffin.
The book is divided into two parts:
Part One - The Science of Cancer Therapy
Part Two -The Politics of Cancer Therapy
PART ONE - THE SCIENCE OF CANCER THERAPY
CHAPTER ONE - THE WATERGATE SYNDROME
"Examples of dishonesty and corruption in the field of drug research; a 
close look at the first major study which declared Laetrile (vitamin B17) 
'of no value;' proof that the study was fraudulent; the FDA's ruling against 
the use of Laetrile because it had not been tested; and the refusal then to 
allow anyone (except its opponents) to test it" (p. 21).
In Chapter One Griffin describes how a report issued by the Cancer 
Commission of the California Medical Association in the April 1953 issue of 
California Medicine concluded, "No satisfactory evidence has been produced 
to indicate any significant cytotoxic effect of Laetrile on the cancer cell" 
(p. 27). While this conclusion has largely formed the basis of medical 
opinion throughout the U.S. since that time, Griffin shows that the 
conclusion was contrary to the raw findings in the research. The conclusion 
is a lie. In addition, the report had to admit that "all of the physicians 
whose patients were reviewed spoke of increase in the sense of well-being 
and appetite, gain in weight, and decrease in pain" (p. 33). All of this was 
dismissed as insignificant in the report.
Alluding to the questionable scientific integrity of the drafters of the 
report, Griffin notes that one drafter, Dr. Ian MacDonald, Chairman of the 
California Cancer Commission, "had made national headlines claiming that 
there was no connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer" (p. 29). 
MacDonald later died after being burned in bed by a cigarette-started fire. 
His associate on the report, Dr. Henry Garland, who had boasted that 
cigarettes are harmless, himself died of lung cancer. These are the 
so-called experts whose conclusions the medical profession continues to hold 
as the standard to this day.
Another fault of the study was that the doses of Laetrile given to patients 
were so weak that they could not give as much benefit as is possible. 
Patients were given fifty to one-hundred mg. per dose. By 1974, it was found 
that intravenous levels of six to nine thousand mg. daily were helpful and 
not at all harmful.
Proponents of Laetrile have repeatedly been denied the right to test it. The 
assumption from opponents that Laetrile is toxic is "absurd inasmuch as all 
of the drugs approved by the FDA and currently used in orthodox cancer 
therapy are extremely toxic. To deny the testing of Laetrile on the grounds 
that it might be toxic is the height of sophistry" (p. 35), says Griffin. 
(emphasis his.)
CHAPTER TWO - GENOCIDE IN MANHATTAN
"Continued attempts by the cancer industry to prove that Laetrile is 
worthless; the suppressed lab reports from the Sloan-Kettering Institute 
which proved that Laetrile works; the Rockefeller connection to the 
pharmaceutical industry; the story of how a group of employees at 
Sloan-Kettering leaked the truth to the outside world" (p. 37).
Several paragraphs from this chapter deserve quoting:
How does one evaluate the success of a cancer treatment? Is it the length of 
life? The quality of life? The feeling of well-being and absence of pain? 
The ability to function normally on a daily basis? All of these are the 
criteria used by doctors who apply nutritional therapy. They are not 
concerned with the size of a tumor because, as stated previously, they know 
most tumors are a mixture of malignant and benign cells, and that most 
tumors have only a small percentage of cancer cells. If Laetrile succeeds in 
removing 100% of a patient's cancer, his tumor may only decrease of 5% or 
10%. But who cares? The patient is back among the living again. The tumor is 
not the disease, it is merely the symptom of the disease.
Orthodox medicine, on the other hand, is totally focused on the tumor. To 
most oncologists, the tumor is the cancer. If they remove it surgically or 
burn it away, they happily announce to the patient: "Good news. We got it 
all!" They may have all of the tumor, but did they get what caused the 
tumor? And, in the process, did they dislodge some of those malignant cells, 
causing them to migrate through the circulatory system only to find new 
homes elsewhere in the body? Is that the reason so many cancer patients die 
of metastasized cancer to multiple locations only a few months after hearing 
those ludicrous words: "We got it all"?
In any event, Laetrile practitioners have always warned that reduction in 
tumor size is the least meaningful of all the measures of success..A living 
and healthy patient with a tumor reduced by only 15% would be classified as 
a failure [by orthodox medicine]. A sick and dying patient with a tumor 
reduced 60% would be a success (p. 39).
CHAPTER THREE - AN APPLE A DAY
"A review of entrenched scientific error in history; the vitamin-deficiency 
concept of cancer as advanced in 1952 by Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr.; and a 
survey of the evidence both in nature and in history to support that 
concept" (p. 53).
"The history of science is the history of struggle against entrenched error. 
Many of the world's greatest discoveries initially were rejected by the 
scientific community. And those who pioneered those discoveries often were 
ridiculed and condemned as quacks and charlatans" (p. 53). For example, it 
took many years after someone discovered that the killer scurvy could be 
prevented by eating fresh citrus before the prevention became acceptable to 
the medical community. The same is true with pellagra. Thirty years after it 
was discovered that eating liver or yeast could prevent the disease the 
medical profession accepted that the cause was a vitamin B deficiency. 
Griffin writes
By 1952, Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., a biochemist in San Francisco, had 
advanced the theory that cancer, like scurvy and pellagra, is not caused by 
some kind of mysterious bacterium, virus, or toxin, but is merely a 
deficiency disease aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in 
modern-man's diet. He identified this compound as part of the nitriloside 
family which occurs abundantly in nature in over twelve-hundred edible 
plants and found virtually in every part of the world. It is particularly 
prevalent in the seed of these fruits in the Prunus Rosacea family (bitter 
almond, apricot, blackthorn, cherry, nectarine, peach, and plum), but also 
contained in grasses, maize, sorghum, millet, cassava, linseed, apple seeds, 
and many other foods that, generally, have been deleted from the menus of 
modern civilization.
It is difficult to establish a clear-cut classification for a nitriloside. 
Since it does not occur entirely by itself but rather is found in foods, it 
probably should not be classified as a food. Like sugar, it is a food 
component or a food factor. Nor can it be classified as a drug inasmuch as 
it is a natural, non-toxic, water-soluble substance entirely normal to and 
compatible with human metabolism. The proper name for a food factor that 
contains these properties is vitamin. Since this vitamin normally is found 
with the B-complex, and since it was the seventeenth such substance to be 
isolated within this complex, Dr. Krebs identified it as vitamin B17 (p. 
56).
Griffin further adds, "A chronic disease is one which usually does not pass 
away of its own accord. A metabolic disease is one which occurs within the 
body and is not transmittable to another person. Cancer, therefore, being 
all of these, is a chronic, metabolic disease" (p. 56). He adds
Dr. Krebs has pointed out that, in the entire history of medical science, 
there has not been one chronic, metabolic disease that was ever cured or 
prevented by drugs, surgery, or mechanical manipulation of the body. In 
every case - whether it be scurvy, pellagra, rickets, beri-beri, night 
blindness, pernicious anemia, or any of the others - the ultimate solution 
was found only in factors relating to adequate nutrition (p. 57).
CHAPTER FOUR - THE ULTIMATE TEST
"A look at the many cultures around the world that are, or have been, free 
from cancer; and an analysis of their native foods" (p. 63).
Chapter Three takes a look at several cultures whose diet is rich in 
nitriloside foods. In each case the people are cancer-free. One is the Hunza 
tribe in the Himalaya Mountains. "Their diet contains over two-hundred times 
more nitrilosides than the average American diet" (p. 63). The most highly 
prized food is the apricot seed, which is very high in nitrilocides. 
Apricots, their seeds, and oil from the seeds are used much like rice and 
rice products would be used in other eastern cultures. In addition, their 
diet contains other vegetation rich in Vitamin B17. The life expectancy of 
the Hunzas is eighty-five years.
Eskimos have also been free of cancer when they eat their traditional diet. 
They don't have access to apricot seeds or other vegetation of importance, 
yet their diet is rich in nitrilosides from the flesh of caribou and other 
grazing animals that do eat nitrilosides. Eskimos eat the vegetative stomach 
contents of freshly killed game that has just been grazing on grasses full 
of B17.
Griffin notes that even populations in the U.S. who are predominately 
vegetarian, such as Seven Day Adventists and Mormons, have lower cancer 
incidents. Indigenous people like Eskimos, when introduced to "civilized" 
foods, do begin to develop cases of cancer.
CHAPTER FIVE - CANCER: THE ONRUSH OF LIFE
"An explanation of the trophoblast thesis of cancer; a description of a 
simple urine test for cancer; an appraisal of BCG vaccine as an anti-cancer 
agent; and a review of the vital role played by the pancreas in the control 
of cancer" (p. 75).
Griffin writes
In 1902, John Beard, a professor of embryology at the University of 
Edinburgh in Scotland, authored a paper published in the British medical 
journal Lancet in which he stated there were no differences between cancer 
cells and certain pre-embryonic cells that were normal to the early stages 
of pregnancy. In technical terms, these normal cells are called 
trophoblasts. Extensive research had led Professor Beard to the conclusion 
that cancer and trophoblast are, in fact, one and the same. His theory, 
therefore, is known as the trophoblast thesis of cancer (p. 75).
Apparently, when a trophoblast cell develops in the body without the 
controlling forces in pregnancy, its behavior pattern is to grow, spread, 
and multiply, becoming cancer.
Griffin explains: "Before we can hope to conquer cancer, first we must 
understand how nature conquers cancer - how nature protects the body and 
controls the growth of trophoblast cells. One would suppose that this would 
be the primary question that determines the direction of cancer research 
today. Unfortunately, it is not. Most research projects are preoccupied with 
exotic and toxic drugs or machines that deliver death rays to selected parts 
of the body" (p. 79).
One would assume that white blood cells, which attack harmful cells that 
cause infections, ought to attack cancer cells. Why don't they? There is a 
protein coating with a negative electrostatic charge surrounding trophoblast 
cells; white blood cells also have a negative charge. Therefore, they repel 
each other.
How does nature destroy trophoblast cells? Pancreatic enzymes, when in the 
small intestine, dissolve the protein coating, allowing white blood cells to 
kill the trophoblast cells.
Griffin explains that a false assumption is that cancer cells are foreign 
entities and should all be destroyed. He declares that in the right balance 
trophoblast cells are a natural part of pregnancy and healing. Cancer occurs 
when an imbalance is present in the process.
CHAPTER SIX - THE TOTAL MECHANISM
"The nutritional factor as a back-up mechanism to the enzyme factor; a 
biographical sketch of Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., and his development of 
Laetrile; the beneficial effects of vitamin B17 on a wide range of human 
disorders; and an appraisal of the complexity of nature's total anti-cancer 
mechanism" (p. 85).
What happens when this first line of defense is inadequate due to a diet 
that requires all the pancreatic enzymes for digestion, leaving nothing to 
battle cancer cells? Or what if the person's body is subject to damage, such 
as from smoking cigarettes? Griffin says that nature has provided a second 
line of defense found in foods rich in nitrilosides. He writes
The chemical compound in question is vitamin B17, which is found in those 
natural foods containing nitriloside. It is known also as amygdalin and, as 
such, has been used and studied extensively for well over a hundred years. 
But, in its concentrated and purified form developed by Dr. [Ernst] Krebs 
specifically for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile (p. 86).
Griffin introduces the work of Krebs.
By 1950 he had identified the specific composition of this substance, had 
isolated it into crystalline form, had given it the name Laetrile, and had 
tested it on animals to make sure it was not toxic. The next step was to 
prove that it was not harmful to humans. There was only one way to do that. 
So he rolled up his sleeve and injected it into his own bloodstream..
The B17 molecule contains two units of glucose (sugar), one of banzaldehyde, 
and one of cyanide, all tightly locked together within it. As everyone 
knows, cyanide can be highly toxic and even fatal if taken in sufficient 
quantity. However, locked as it is in this natural state, it is chemically 
inert and has absolutely no effect on living tissue..
There is only one substance that can unlock the B17 molecule and release the 
cyanide. That substance is an enzyme called beta-glucosidase, which we shall 
call the "unlocking enzyme." When B17 comes in contact with the enzyme in 
the presence of water, not only is the cyanide released, but also the 
benzaldehyde, which is highly toxic by itself..
Fortunately, the unlocking enzyme is not found to any dangerous degree 
anywhere in the body except at the cancer cell, where it always is present 
in great quantity, sometimes at levels in excess of one-hundred times that 
of the surrounding normal cells. The result is that vitamin B17 is unlocked 
at the cancer cell, releases its poisons to the cancer cell, and only to the 
cancer cell.
There is another important enzyme called rhodanese, which we shall identify 
as the "protecting enzyme." The reason is that it has the ability to 
neutralize cyanide by converting it instantly into by-products that actually 
are beneficial and essential to health. This enzyme is found in great 
quantities in every part of the body except the cancer cell which, 
consequently, is not protected (p. 88-89). (emphasis his.)
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE CYANIDE SCARE
"A newspaper account of a couple who reportedly were poisoned by eating 
apricot kernels; a close look at the real facts in this case; an evaluation 
of the toxic potential of seeds containing B17; and proof that Laetrile is 
less toxic than sugar" (p. 95).
Griffin tells us that laboratory forms of B17 (amygdalin, Laetrile) have 
been described as non-toxic in pharmacology books for over one hundred 
years. He compares this to common aspirin, which is "twenty times more toxic 
than the equivalent amount of Laetrile. The toxicity of aspirin is 
cumulative and can build up for days or even months. The chemical action of 
B17, however, is completed usually within a few hours leaving behind 
absolutely no build-up" (p. 102).
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE LAETRILE "QUACKS"
"The names, professional standings, medical achievements, and clinical 
findings of some of the more prominent doctors who endorse Laetrile; the 
beneficial side-effects produced by its use; a suggested anti-cancer diet; 
and a brief description of vitamin B15" (p. 105).
This graph was reproduced from information found on page 110 of World 
Without Cancer. It was originally reproduced from Alive and Well: One Doctor's 
Experience with Nutrition in the Treatment of Cancer Patients, by Philip E. 
Binzel, M.D. (Westlake Village, California: American Media, 1997, p. 113.)
The best results in treating cancer with Laetrile come when it is combined 
with supplemental vitamin therapy as well. The chapter gives an overview of 
such therapy.
CHAPTER NINE - "UNPROVEN" CANCER CURES
"Clinical evidence in support of the trophoblast thesis; laboratory 
experiments showing that Laetrile kills cancer cells; and case histories of 
terminal cancer patients who attribute their recovery to the effect of 
Laetrile" (p. 115).
Griffin writes
The cyanide scare mentioned previously was but one small salvo in the 
continuing barrage of officialdom's attacks against Laetrile. The total 
weaponry runs the gamut from scare tactics to outright falsehoods. But 
mostly they take the form of scholarly pronouncements, cloaked in the cloth 
of apparent concern for the public welfare, that vitamin therapy may sound 
good in theory, but in practice, it simply dos not work (p. 115).
Thousands of case histories have been documented showing that Laetrile 
successfully has treated cancer. However, orthodox medicine still claims 
that there is no proof. To contradict documented cases of cancers being 
successfully treated with Laetrile, doctors often claim that the patient 
went into spontaneous remission or that the patient never had cancer to 
begin with.
CHAPTER TEN - "PROVEN" CANCER CURES
"The effects of surgery and radiation in the treatment of cancer; a 
comparison showing that those who receive no treatment at all live just as 
long, if not longer, than those who are treated" (p. 137).
Griffin notes that proponents of Laetrile treatment approach cancer from the 
belief that it is a "deficiency disease"; therefore, it cannot be "cured," 
rather prevented and treated. He shows that representatives of the cancer 
industry claim to have cures. Chapter Ten explores the first two of three 
"cures": surgery, radiation, and drugs.
Surgery can indeed save lives, and has the advantage of removing the tumor. 
Hope springs forth in the patient and his family, but often cancer shows up 
somewhere else in the body because the underlying cause has not been 
addressed. However, surgery poses two complications. "First, it causes 
physical trauma to the area. This triggers off the healing process which, in 
turn, brings more trophoblast cells into being as a by-product of that 
process.The other effect is that, if not all the malignant tissue is 
removed, what remains tends to be encased in scar tissue .the cancer tends 
to become insulated from the action of the pancreatic trophoblast cells to 
the surveillant action of the white blood cells.there is no sold evidence 
that patients who submit to surgery have any greater life expectancy, on the 
average, than those who do not" (p. 139).
Statistics show that the "rate of long-term survival after surgery is, on 
the average at best, only ten or fifteen percent. And once the cancer has 
metastisized to a second location, surgery has almost no survival value" (p. 
141). (emphasis his.)
The purpose of X-ray therapy, the second orthodox treatment, is to burn away 
the tumor. Because tumors are comprised of both cancer and noncancer cells, 
and X-rays are more effective in destroying noncancer cells than cancer, the 
effect is to "increase the percentage of malignancy" (p. 142). This 
treatment seems to increase the probability that cancer will appear in 
another part of the body given time because it damages the body, causing a 
production of trophoblast cells that are trying to bring healing and because 
it lessens the production of white blood cells. Statistics do not show that 
X-ray treatment improves the chance for survival.
Griffin next explains how the American Cancer Society arrives at its 
positive sounding statistics for orthodox treatment.
CHAPTER ELEVEN - A NEW DIMENSION OF MURDER
"Anti-cancer drugs shown to be ineffective and cancer-causing; FDA-approved 
experiments on humans resulting in death from drugs rather than from cancer" 
(p. 151).
Drugs used in chemotherapy are selected because their primary function is as 
a poison. They are supposed to differentiate, not between cancer and 
noncancer cells, but between slow-growing and fast-growing. Consequently, 
many healthy cells are destroyed. The immune system is weakened. The patient 
suffers effects of poisoning, such as, "nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, 
cramps, and progressive weakness" (p. 152). His hair falls out because hair 
cells are targeted as "fast-growing." While his family stands by as 
sorrowful witnesses, the patient goes through agony of body and mind, only 
to find that his chances of long-term survival are minimal.
CHAPTER TWELVE - A STATISTICAL COMPARISON
"The inherent weaknesses of all cancer statistics; the need for statistical 
comparisons in spite of those weaknesses; a comparison of the results 
obtained by orthodox and Laetrile physicians; and the consequences of 
consensus medicine" (p. 165).
Best results from Laetrile therapy, of course, are obtained when the body 
has not been severely damaged by surgery, X-rays, or chemotherapy, in other 
words, "virgin" cases.
Griffin explains in Chapter Eleven that consensus medicine occurs when ".the 
physician cannot follow his own judgement or his conscience. He gets into 
far more trouble by prescribing a few non-toxic vitamins than by prescribing 
the most radical surgery or violent chemical poisons. All but the very brave 
toe the line" (p. 172).
Dr. Krebs, developer of Laetrile, has noted that cancer is "one of the last 
outposts of mysticism in medical science." Someday the brutal treatments of 
today will be classified with old treatments like bloodletting.
BACK 

 We at VitaminB17.
La "vitamina B17" non e' altro che un nome di fantasia del LAETRILE, 
sostanza pericolosa, estratta dai noccioli di albicocca o da altri semi.
Negli anni 70 in america molte persone sono morte perche' oltre ad essere 
state allontanate da cure valide subivano anche intossicazione da cianuro.
In america la fortuna degli spacciatori di LAETRILE e' finita dopo che 
nell'82 un'accurata indagine portata avanti sia da medici che da non medici 
ha dimostrato che i malati di cancro sottoposti a tale cura non avevano 
salvezza.
Evidentemente, dopo 25 anni, c'e' chi ci riprova a sciacallare sulla pelle 
di malati gravissimi.
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/laetrile.html
Marius. 

 Roby
 
  vabbe', abbiamo capito non sei in grado di argomentare ma
  sei andato a lezione di copincolla ..
 
  ma (e quattro..)
  ce li posti quei famosi studi che dimostrerebbero
  che la chemioterapia accorcia la vita nei pazienti affetti
  da tumore ?