Hello all:

I've been doing quite a lot of reading on Vitamin B 17 or laetryl. There are a lot of literature advocating the effectiveness of Vit b17 in fighting cancer cells.

Has anyone ever used it or know someone who has and that person recovered from cancer?

I am contemplating using it myself. Any advice?

Sharifah

http://hiduplama.blogspot.com

"Life is too short"

Hello Sharifah

Past discussion:
Laetrile

Hope that helps.

Best wishes

Vinod

Hello Sharifah,

Caught up with your blog and am so impressed by your determination and the support you get from your family and friends.

To put it very bluntly, Americans who desire alternative treatment have been dying with laetrile for a few decades now - it just doesn't seem to go away! It was particularly big in the Seventies when lots of Mexican clinics were offering it, but with the lack of reliable statistics and studies (only anecdotal information: "My mother-in-law's best friend's boyfriend's sister was completely cured!") laetrile went away, only to come back every decade or so.

I value these two websites for their information on questionable treatments and supplements. They're not totally dismissive of non-pharm alternatives; they praise the good stuff too. The first is Quackwatch, a watchdog organization and the second is from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

The Rise and Fall of Laetrile

Sloan-Kettering on Laetrile

Best of luck to you. I'll try to keep up with your blog. As I told you earlier, I lived and worked in Malaysia and have a very warm spot in my heart for your country. Considering it's nearly on the equator, it's a VERY warm spot! I hope to go back to visit coworkers in the next few years and who knows? Maybe we can get together for dinner and discuss the great progress we've made.

Mimi

Hi Mimi,

Thank you so much for your feedback. How are you doing now? For me, I am still waiting for the biopsy report from the hospital and I am freaking out! I am really scared to through another operation especially the post operation effects. I was told by my doc that there will be further complications if they have to perform another operation.

The swelling is still there. Still refused to go away.

I hope that we can meet someday. Would be fun to talk about our ordeal and how we beat cancer.

Bye.

Sharifah
http://hiduplama.blogspot.com

"Life is too short"

Hi Sharifah,
I hope your biopsy went in your favour.
I realise this reply is a little late, but i've only just discovered this website.
Sharifah, just a few things on laetrile and it's efficacy.
I strongly urge you purchase a book called "cancer why we're still dying to know the truth" by Phillip Day.
Within the pages of this book, all your questions on cancer and the natural alternatives to fighting and preventing it will be answered.
This book is a compilation of doctors reports on their experiences with using laetrile and other alternative methods on their own patients, and even explains why we get cancer at all.
It also includes the four doctors who were actually involved in the laetrile trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering, dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, dr.Elizabeth Stockert, dr. Lloyd Schloan & dr. Fran Schmidt.
These doctors were hand picked as the best of the best and all reported laetrile as being far superior to chemo toxins in every way, when combined with enzyme and vitamin therapy.
Each had their reports suppressed by the board of directors at MSKCC, we know this for a fact because Ralph Moss (assistant director of the department of public affairs for MSKCC) told the world through a media press conference of the laetrile trial cover ups.
He was fired the very next day.http://www.ralphmoss.com/mskccletter1.html
Eventually the tests were tried outside MSKCC and handed over to a known anti laetrile cancer specialist, dr.Daniel Martin at the Catholic medical centre, where he carried out a double blind test on mice of which half were injected with salt water solution and the other half injected with laetrile.
Dr. Martin eventually reported that the mice using the salt water solution were showing tumour regression 40% of the time, and that there was no difference in the tumour regression in the mice using laetrile.
Can you believe that?
In other words dr. Martin was saying that salt water was either an effective cancer control, or these tumours just shrank regardless of what his mice were receiving.
Obviously it was the mice using laetrile that were showing tumour regression 40% of the time, and dr.Martin was trying to make the trial look as though laetrile had no superior advantage over salt water, and therefore was useless.
It was this report that the board members of MSKCC were looking for, and finally released to the public.
Laetrile has never caused the death of anyone in recorded history, if there were any such cases, the F.D.A would have plastered this persons name and details on front page news around the world.
Laetrile/ amygdalin is not a cure, but a very effective cancer control.
You cannot cure cancer, but you can totally reverse it, or at least control it.
By the way laetrile is not the be all and end all of natural treaments for cancer, but is a user friendly chemotherapy.
Cancer starts off as a healing process which has not stopped on completion of its task.
The nutritional state of the body and its immune system are key to wether or not this healing process terminates, and unless you address the bodys' nutritional state, cancer will inevitably almost always return.
I wonder how many people on this website were constantly exposing their mouths or throat to carcinogens ( e.g cigarettes ) and now have mouth cancer.
Cancer begins at the site of an onging injury either from external or internal factors.
Please, please do yourself a favour and read the alternative views to what cancer actually is and avoid becoming another cancer statistic.
Quackery in medicine is filling a patients veins with poisonous toxins (chemo)and expecting the patient to be cured, its barbaric.
Fighting fire with fire creates more fire.
Please remember this, in the early 1900s cancer statistics were 1/500, by the 1950s it was 1/30 and today its 1/3.
Are we winning the war on cancer with modern medicine?
And yet the procedures for fighting cancer are unchanged even though researchers have spent billions of dollars on research.
What has all this spending got us?
A cancer crisis.
Pharmaceutical companies are not deliberately trying to kill people by holding back on a control for cancer, they are simply not interested in spending millions of dollars trialing a product which cannot be patented.
If there is no trial, then the F.D.A will not approve it, and so laetrile/ amygdalin will never be approved and therefore remains "unproven" by the F.D.A.
It's simply business, infact the cancer business is estimated to be a 200 billiion dollar per year industry world wide.
Interestingly, you may have a chuckle to yourself while reading this BBC report on the following link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festi...f_science/913463.stm the Imperial college of London, in 2000 were working on cyanide releasing drugs for cancer.
I will finish by telling you that my family and I must be freaks of nature since we regularly eat up to 15 apricot kernels per day and have been doing so for years, without dying.
Amygdalin is also a vital food component for most animals, are the F.D.A checking these animals?

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