Burzynski Research (BZYR)

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Now who is the quack?:

Below is an excerpt from a word doc accessed via this excellent site:
http://www.ouralexander.org/war1.htm

“For many years, chemotherapy has been utilized for the treatment of malignant brain tumors with minimal success.”1 “The outcome for the majority of children with malignant brain tumors remains poor, despite surgery, irradiation and conventional chemotherapy.”2
In comparison, Dr. Burzynski’s innovative, non-toxic, but non-FDA-approved cancer therapy for brain tumors has been described as significantly more successful than the “proven” therapies.3 In 1997, Robert E. Burdick, M.D., a Seattle oncologist and faculty member of the University of Washington Medical School, wrote:
It is very rare, currently, to ever get a complete remission or cure in a patient who has a malignant brain tumor using our standard modalities of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. . . . As a rough estimate, neurosurgeons do well to cure 1 in every 1,000 brain cancer patients they operate on. Radiation therapy slows the growth of adult tumors gaining perhaps one month of life and again may result in a cure in only 1 in 500-1,000 patients. . .Similarly, chemotherapy research, despite 30 years of clinical trials, has not resulted in the development of a single drug or drug combination that elicits more than an occasional transient response in primary brain tumors. . . . The responses [with Burzynski’s treatment] are far in excess of any prior series of patients published in the medical literature. . .a response rate here is an astounding 33%. Such remission rates are far in excess. . . of anything that I or anyone else has seen since research work on brain tumors began.4