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.This is not questioned by anyone who has studiedproduced were greater appetite, weight gain, and superior health;the reports submitted to the Cancer Advisory Council of the State ofCalifornia.(2) just what one would expect from taking a vitamin.In the early days of experimentation with Laetrile, it wasfeared that the substance might be toxic if taken orally.Thisconcern was based on the fact that, in the beginning, ways hadnot yet been perfected to remove the beta-glucosidase (unlockingenzyme) from the apricot extract and, since Laetrile is a highly-concentrated form of B17, on the basis of theory, it was feared thatit might pose a problem when activated by the secretions of thestomach.Consequently, some of the early written works onLaetrile recommended injections only and cautioned againsttaking the substance orally.That caution, however, has longoutlived its usefulness, and there is now no medical reasonwhatsoever to avoid the oral form.Aspirin tablets are twenty times more toxic than the equiva-lent amount of Laetrile.The toxicity of aspirin is cumulative andcan build up for days or even months.The chemical action of B17,however, is completed usually within a few hours leaving behindabsolutely no build-up.Each year in the United States, overninety people die from aspirin poisoning.No one ever has diedfrom B17.1.Letter from Dr.Dean Burk to Stephen Wise and Gregory Stout, Attorneys,dated Dec.17,1972; Griffin, Private Papers, op, cit.1.Letter from Dr.Dean Burk to Congressman Lou Frey, Jr., dated May 30,1972,2.Statement made on Oct.13,1969, as quoted in report attached to letter fromrepri nt ed in Cancer Control Journal May / June 1973 p 6in Cancer Control Journal, May/June, 1973, p.6Dr.Dean Burk, Ibid. Chapter EightTHE LAETRILE"QUACKS"The names, professional standings, medicalachievements, and clinical findings of some ofthe more prominent doctors who endorseLaetrile; the beneficial side-effects produced byits use; a suggested anti-cancer diet; and a briefdescription of vitamin B15."Laetrile is goddamned quackery!"Such was the pronouncement of Helene Brown, president ofthe American Cancer Society of California.(1)As early as 1974, there were at least twenty-six publishedpapers written by well-known physicians who had used Laetrilein the treatment of their own patients and who have concludedthat Laetrile is both safe and effective in the treatment of cancer.(2)In addition, there are the voluminous private records of physi-cians who have used it clinically but have never published theirfindings except in letters to their colleagues or in public lecturesor interviews.The American Cancer Society and other spokesmenfor orthodox medicine would have us believe that only quacksand crackpots have endorsed this conclusion.But the doctorswho conducted these experiments and those who share theirconclusions are not quacks.Here are just a few of the names:In West Germany there is Hans Nieper, M.D., former Directorof the Department of Medicine at the Silbersee Hospital inhanover.He is a pioneer in the medical use of cobalt and iscredited with developing the anti-cancer drug, cyclophosphamide.He is the originator of the concept of "electrolyte carriers" in the1." The Pain Exploiters " The Victimizing of Desperate Cancer Patients," Today'shealth, Nov., 1973, p.28.2.a complete list of these papers is contained in The Laetriles/Nitrilosides,op.cit , pp.84, 85. 106 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part OnePhilippine Cancer Society, and many other medical groups.Heprevention of cardiac necrosis.He was formerly the head of thehas been recognized internationally as a cancer researcher andAschaffenburg Hospital Laboratory for chemical circulatoryhas over one-hundred major scientific papers to his credit, someresearch.He is listed in Who's Who in World Science and has beenof which have been read before the International Cancerthe Director of the German Society for Medical Tumor Treatment.Congress.In 1971 Dr
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