European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 19 Franz Ingelfinger would not recommend but would Aqui Esee to demand of hopelessly lit assuage mental and the detection of quacks la Earlle retired Dean says concoction of Apricot kernels should be treated As a food and Vitamin in human Field by Jane Brody new York times Onk of the most frequent challenges presented to cancer specialists these Days con Cerna the unproven cancer when a doctor advises a patient against taking the rejoinder is Likely to but How do you know it Doest work How can you be so sure he answered the doctor would have to say something like this i cannot be absolutely be cause laetrile has not cd been properly tested in cancer but i can Tell you with certainty that laetrile has shown no anticancer activity in any Laboratory and claims that it has worked in patients have not been nearly All those patients who recovered after taking laetrile had also received effective anticancer and Tael Rilo advocates dont bother to Tell you about those patients who rejected conventional therapy in favor of laetrile and subsequently died of their yet tens of thousands of cancer patients have taken laetrile and Many More thousands Are Likely to a so now that state after state is voting to permit the use of this federally banned extract of Apricot Why if laetrile Doest seem to do go Many people continue to try it Why do so Many other quack cancer remedies persist year after year the answer in the emotional Impact of a diagnosis of cancer strikes terror in the hearts of even the most rational filled with fear and a sense of Many Are quite naturally attracted to something that promises to Rescue them from the Lions Mouth to Grant them a re Prieve from the death sentence they i Hank they received their Heads Are easily turned by reports o miraculous cures described by members of one or another group Advocat ing their own unconventional answer to those who select the easy prom of cancer quacks Over the most Complex therapies offered by established cancer specialists Are simply hastening the in icy May be squandering their one and Only Chance for a real cure or Long lasting Remis another reason for the attraction of quack cancer remedies is the fear people have of the effects of established therapies the disfigurement of surgery and the Side effects of radiation therapy and anticancer drugs that Are the Hallmarks of Modem cancer when faced with a Choice Between something like a which is said to be harmless and produce no unpleasant Side effects although an overdose can be and a treatment however effective that the doctor warns in Advance will cause Many opt for the pain albeit each year americans waste nearly s3 billion on worthless schemes and ceremonies that Are heralded As cancer Many also waste their lives in the owners who May exhausted All established remedies and who turn to unproven methods As a last waste their families resources la obtain the Worth less i Low can you Lell the difference Between the legitimate Daims or effective cancer and the spurious claims for the unorthodox treatments offered by self pro claimed experts in now can you recognize a cancer quack quacks May sport while coals and some even Bear a legitimate after their but they All have one or More telltale characteristics thai will help the wary a of them kit even make Hatif a a of fib Lient recognize and avoid these include the ing 0a single approach to treating or All types of whatever you Havo be it leukaemia r lung cancer their magic will cure Yut cancer re searchers have shown that cancer is not one but 100 or More different with different types require indifferent approaches to claims that they arc being persecuted by established Medicine for their unorthodox ideas and that no one will publish their the real reason legitimate journals refuse to publish the of cancer quacks is thai they Are totally couched in terms that could fool an ignorant Layman but a trained Many quacks dont even seek legitimate outlets for their they else their wares through and Magazine broadcasts and and depend heavily on testimonials and financial support from patients and prominent persons who Are neither physician nor scientists and arc not competent to evaluate the quacks that the medical the Ameri can medical the american cancer society and the National cancer Institute dont really want to cure cancer because that would put a lot of doctors and scientists out business since Many members of these organisations have themselves had cancer or have loved ones who Are afflicted with it hardly seems Likely that they would not want to Sec cancer if thai were quacks May Call themselves doctor1 but in fact most Are not medical doctors and dont even have de Grees in Fields even remotely related to their degrees May be in or Pathy or metaphysics Orthe the methods of producing a quack remedy Are often kept a dark secret of its who May protest that they can Trust no one else to use in proper they May also refuse to submit the purported treatment to an Independent test they us test  be done right by anyone else and the treatment would be labelled worthless unfair if not of a quacks claimed successes involve of patients who never had cancer in the first they May have had a suspicious symptom and been told by a physician to have a cancer test or an exploratory they went to a quack who used a phony diagnostic test to prove the person had which the quack then proceeded to cure with his supposed dont let yourself or any member of your family fall into the hands of a cancer or any kind of quack quacks sell Only false and the Price they exact May be your