Cancer Cure Foundation

[[File:G. Edward Griffin.jpg|thumb|right|165px|G. Edward Griffin]]
[[File:Cancer Cure Foundation.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Their 1976 pixelated image still [[charlatan|inspires confidence]] in 2023!]]
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Founded in 1976 by the [[John Birch Society]] spokesman and [[antisemitism|antisemite]]<ref>''Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right'' by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. {{isbn|1541673565}}.</ref>{{rp|163,262}} '''G. Edward Griffin''' {{lived|1931}}, the '''Cancer Cure Foundation''' is a 501(c)3 [[charity]] and website that "provides an unbiased analysis of the major [[alternative medicine|alternative-cancer]] clinics, treatments, and therapies."<ref>{{cite web |title=Cancer Cure Foundation homepage (until May 20, 2025) (archived)|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250520202347/http://cancure.org/}}</ref> In practice, this means it's a clearinghouse for just about every [[quackery|quack]] [[cancer]] cure under the sun.

[[Quackwatch]] lists Cancer Cure Foundation / Cure Research Foundation under "Nonrecommended Information Sources".<ref>{{cite web |title=A Special Message to Cancer Patients Seeking "Alternative" Treatments |date=July 25, 2019 |website=[[Quackwatch]] |url=https://quackwatch.org/about/altseek/}}</ref>

==Listed therapies==
A small selection of "therapies":<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250520183225/http://cancure.org/choice-of-therapy Choice of Therapy: Alternative Cancer Therapies]</ref>
*[[Antineoplaston]]s: Created by [[Stanislaw Burzynski]] and derived from human urine. They don't work.
*[[Essiac]]: A tea made from four different herbs. It doesn't work.
*[[Gerson Therapy]]: Invented by Max Gerson, and consisting of a modified diet, coffee enemas, and lots of vitamin supplements. It doesn't work.
*{{wpl|Hydrazine sulfate}}: Developed as a treatment by Joseph Gold. It doesn't work.
*[[Iscador]]: an extract of European mistletoe. It doesn't work.
*{{wpl|Rife Machine}}: Created by Royal Rife, the device supposedly uses electricity to kill pathogens. It doesn't work.
*[[Shark cartilage]]: Exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't work.

Sensing a pattern yet?

==Board members of note==
*{{wpl|G. Edward Griffin}}: Author of ''World Without Cancer''<ref>''World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B<sub>17</sub>'' by G. Edward Griffin (2010) American Media, 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. {{isbn|0912986506}}.</ref> and all-around [[crank]]
*Thomas A. Dorman: a proponent of {{wpl|prolotherapy}}

==Selected testimonials==
What would a website promoting alternative medicine be without its own page of [[testimonial|anecdata]]?

* Dee Simmons: Stage 1 breast cancer survivor<ref>https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-beauty/2007/fall-winter/mother-daughter-team-turns-diagnosis-into-million-dollar-enterprise/</ref> (Caught early, the stage 1 breast cancer 5-year relative survival rate is 99%.)<ref>https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-stage-1/</ref>
* Lorraine Day, MD: The subject of her very own Quackwatch page.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stay Away from Dr. Lorraine Day |author=Stephen Barrett, M.D.
|date=August 19, 2024 |website=[[Quackwatch]] |url=https://quackwatch.org/related/Cancer/day/}}</ref>
* Donald Factor: diagnosed with metastatic small cell lung cancer in 1986, survived until July 15 2017,<ref>https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/donald-factor-obituary?id=6814982</ref> despite being treated solely with [[laetrile]], high doses of [[vitamin C]], and [[coffee enema]]s.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-176861/My-unorthodox-battle-cancer.html</ref>

==Outreach==
The Cancer Cure Foundation sells or links to a wide variety of media, many having to do with laetrile, G. Edward Griffin's personal hobbyhorse.<ref>https://new.cancure.org/news/recommend-reading-materials/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250427201659/http://www.cancure.org/books-videos-audios</ref>

They also linked to seemingly every alternative website under the sun, including those run by [[Andrew Weil]], [[Gary Null]], and [[Matthias Rath]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250420171452/https://cancure.org/links</ref>

==External links==
* [https://new.cancure.org/ "New" official website]<!-- As-of 2025-09-05, it seems unpopulated, asking "Submit your Clinic" and Therapies are only "arriving soon". -->
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20250520202347/http://cancure.org/ Old official website, archived 2025-05-02]<!-- As-of 2025-09-05, all pages "500 Internal Server Error". WORTH KEEPING because the "new" site looks "thinned". Content on the OLD site seems richer, so it might be better to replace broken links with links to archives than links to the latest thinned content...> -->

==References==
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[[Category:Cancer woo]]
[[Category:John Birch Society]]
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