Zippyjuan
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Thank you for the link to the clinic.
Can you provide any sort of data as to their success rate in treating patients with laetrile at this clinic? Did these patients receive any other treatments along with the leatril? If they have treated "thousands" of patients, they should have lots of data. If it has been successful, I would think they would like to rave about the success rates they have been able to achieve- that would help them attract even more patients.
Update: I do find that they post success rates but do not say anything about which portion was due to laetrile and what was via other treatments.
http://www.oasisofhope.com/patient-survival-statistics.php
For example, they list multiple treatment protocols for breast cancer patients. When given multiple treatments, it is difficult to say which one or ones "cured" the patient.
If Laetrile was a proven cure I would think they would start with that as a treatment and skip the costs and risks of other ones like chemo- which even here seems to be the first form of treatment. Chemo still seems to be the emphasized primary treatment. Even this clinic does not use laetrile by itself to treat cancer but use it along with "other conventional therapies". If it was a cure alone, this would not be necessary.
Can you provide any sort of data as to their success rate in treating patients with laetrile at this clinic? Did these patients receive any other treatments along with the leatril? If they have treated "thousands" of patients, they should have lots of data. If it has been successful, I would think they would like to rave about the success rates they have been able to achieve- that would help them attract even more patients.
Update: I do find that they post success rates but do not say anything about which portion was due to laetrile and what was via other treatments.
http://www.oasisofhope.com/patient-survival-statistics.php
For example, they list multiple treatment protocols for breast cancer patients. When given multiple treatments, it is difficult to say which one or ones "cured" the patient.
Measures which include ozone autohemotherapy, laetrile treatments, the oxygen-carrier Perftec, high-dose biotin, salsalate, bicarbonate tumor alkalinization, and melatonin are employed in conjunction with conventional therapies with the intent of boosting tumor cell uptake offsetting the resistance of poorly-oxygenated tumor regions, and suppressing signaling pathways within the cancer that promote treatment resistance – all while minimizing risk for dangerous or unpleasant side effects. Ultra-aggressive protocols that would be likely to induce severe side effects are avoided, in line with Oasis' principle of "first do no harm".
For patients who have become resistant to chemo drugs that previously were effective for them, a strategy employed at Oasis known as epigenetic therapy, involving the safe drugs valproate and hydralazine, has the potential to re-establish treatment sensitivity to these drugs. Patients on the IRT-Q also receive several courses of intravenous vitamin C therapy, in an effort to kill more of the cancer cells with severe tumor-specific oxidative stress.
For patients who do not elect to have chemotherapy, or for whom chemotherapy would appear to be a poor option, the IRT-C protocol offers a more intense series of intravenous vitamin C sessions. Intravenous vitamin C therapy at Oasis is distinguished by novel adjunctive features such as ozone autohemotherapy and administration of Perftec, vitamin K and laetrile which are intended to boost tumor oxygenation and catalyze oxidant generation so as to maximize cancer cell kill.
If Laetrile was a proven cure I would think they would start with that as a treatment and skip the costs and risks of other ones like chemo- which even here seems to be the first form of treatment. Chemo still seems to be the emphasized primary treatment. Even this clinic does not use laetrile by itself to treat cancer but use it along with "other conventional therapies". If it was a cure alone, this would not be necessary.
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