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The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

At that stage, he recommended that the role of fats (particularly the absence of saturated fat from land animal products) was chiefly "be- The fat-associated and smoking-derived cancers collectively account for more than half of all cancer deaths, and people concerned with cancer politics should try to understand them considerably more accurately than Epstein appears to. One can list many other instances where Epstein's content or style are misleading or unbalanced. For example: • The discussion of alcoholism and cancer is entirely erroneous because of failure to standardize properly for age.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

See specifically Chapter 26: "How cancer politics Have KeptYou in the Dark Regarding Successful Alternative Treatments.") Overdose: The Case Against the Drug Companies. Jay S. Cohen, M.D. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2001. Politics in Healing:The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine. Daniel Haley. Washington, DC: Potomac Valley Press, 2000. Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet. Thomas J. Moore. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

It was at this meeting that I decided to launch a newsletter to cover developments in the field of cancer politics, especially OTA. And, in fact, the first issue of The Cancer Chronicles came out less than a year later. After the Coolfont meeting, publicity on the developing fiasco intensified. Gar Hildenbrand, John Fink, Frank Wiewel, and I made numerous television and talk radio appearances on the topic; there were mail-in campaigns directed at OTA itself, at Members of Congress, and especially at its parent body, the Technology Assessment Board.

In reviewing his experience with SKI, Gold has said: "I've heard of cancer politics, but I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. In fact, I wouldn't believe it, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes." He feels that there are "several different Sloan-Ketterings," since while the official statements on hydrazine were as negative as the one above, several top officials at SKI have privately conveyed to him their continuing interest in the compound and their inability to influence the actions of the chemotherapists (Gold, 1975b).

A 11 V_/ 1_/ The Bahamas are only fifty miles from Florida; but in Freeport, with its palm trees, casinos, and postcolonial airs, the frenzy of American cancer politics sometimes seemed nonexistent—a distant rumble. On July 2, 1985, a small delegation from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), and the Bahamian Health Ministry showed up at Lawrence Burton's clinic in Free-port. They stayed a matter of minutes, but the exchange was acerbic. Through the closed door of the conference room, patients could hear the shouting.

When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies Kenny Ausubel See book keywords and concepts

The story provides a perfect miniature of modern cancer politics while unearthing its ancient roots. It helps decode the arcane legacy of retrograde public policies still haunting us today, illuminating the emerging path to a future that is meaningfully inclusive of natural medicine. This journey through the shadow side of medicine does raise very disturbing questions. If there were unorthodox treatments for cancer that were effective, would doctors even know about them? By refusing to investigate, has organized medicine denied countless people access to potentially life-saving therapies?

The book also tells the personal story of how we slipped through the looking glass into the upside-down world of cancer politics during this era of dramatic flux. Catherine and I bore witness to the creation of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) in 1991, which grew directly from years of extreme public pressure mobilized by the large, highly organized alternative medicine community. In particular, the ardent constituency demanding the fair evaluation of unconventional cancer treatments led the effort.

The film would take a harrowing four years to complete and launch us on an irrevocable journey into the mind-bending realm of cancer politics. With only one hiatus after the initial filming, I managed to keep it funded continuously to completion, although it was white knuckles every step of the way, never knowing from week to week where the money would come from. Working with film researcher Ray Hemenez, I began to grope my way into the vaporous mists of Hoxsey. Using You Don't Have to Die as a road map, we sought to confirm or deny its many seemingly preposterous claims and allegations.

With the typical synchronicity of cancer politics, the local deputy sheriff refused to serve the warrant because Hoxsey was treating him for cancer. When the case finally went to trial, Hoxsey was acquitted. Delivering the verdict was a jury composed of two former patients and ten others who had relatives or friends who believed they had been helped by it. These kinds of intimate connections sown by cancer would reach across serendipitous social pathways to exonerate Hoxsey on many occasions.

Hoxsey would soon trust her with mixing the medicine in the basement, while he increasingly attended to the new rash of trials and cancer politics barring his path to acceptance. "If only they would investigate and see the percentages he was getting well," Mildred remembered him complaining. "If they could prove he wasn't doing this, he'd close the doors himself. I don't know of anyone else that could have ever, ever fought the battles he did for as long a period of time as he did." After an Oklahoma child was reputedly cured by Hoxsey, the boy's father approached Senator Elmer Thomas.

FitzGerald's secretive passage through the underbelly of cancer politics led him to produce an explosive expose for the Senate Committee, titled A Conspiracy Against the Health of the American People.6,2 It focused in depth on Harry Hoxsey and Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, while naming a raft of other cancer treatments systematically sunk by organized medicine without fair investigation. FitzGerald affirmed Hoxsey's court victories and noted Judge AtwelPs decisions that the Hoxsey treatments were in some ways "superior to X-ray, radium, and surgery and do have therapeutic merit.

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