Laetrile

One you might want to consider is laetrile which is obtained from the seeds of apricots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To bypass this process, especially to get unauthorized and usually futile treatments such as laetrile or krebiozen, cancer patients must travel outside the United States, to Mexico, for example. ❋ Johnson, Diane (2008)

I mean, are you talking homeopathy or laetrile, orwhat? ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can't tell me that doctors like the Pauls (Ron is an obstetrician, Rand an ophthalmologist) don't know that laetrile is cyanide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the late 1970s, more than half the states responded to frantic pleas from cancer victims by passing bills to legalize the use of laetrile, a concoction of crushed apricot pits and cyanide, which was touted as a cancer cure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bottom line: The JBS, through its future chairman, Dr. Larry McDonald, promoted and profited from the laetrile fraud of the 1970s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So people "treated" with laetrile felt better because didn't feel the cancer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to a series that ran in 1976 in the Atlanta Constitution (now the Journal-Constitution), Shuman would only treat patients with laetrile if they wrote checks to the Larry McDonald for Congress Committee -- and joined the John Birch Society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just to make matters more interesting: According to the series in the Constitution, McDonald wouldn't treat patients with laetrile unless they obtained Federal firearms licenses, and was being investigated at the time by the Treasury Department for using those patients as "... go-betweens to disguise his purchase of firearms." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many studies proved that the active ingredient in laetrile is hydrogen cyanide, which the liver turns into pure cyanide. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Burton had previously distinguished himself by his support for laetrile, the quack cancer remedy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Apricot pits/laetrile: response to Katrin R. by skrashen on Monday, Feb 16, 2009 at 1: 06: 11 AM ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the mid-'70s, right wing groups like the John Birch Society (JBS), the Posse Comitatus, and the Liberty Lobby were promoting something they called a miracle cancer cure; laetrile. ❋ Unknown (2009)

McDonald was elected to Congress in 1974; when he declared for the Seventh District, he turned his laetrile practice over to a Dr. Robert C. Shuman of Marietta. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the most active laetrile promoters: Dr. Larry McDonald, President of the JBS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Cherrix was using laetrile -- another cancer "cure," that the FDA managed to banish from the U.S. that has now become a synonym for quackery -- would the coverage be different? ❋ Unknown (2008)