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The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government's Campaign to Squelch It Hardcover – August 15, 2000

by Thomas D. Elias (Author)
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There is hope in the fight against cancer, and for thousands of devoted cancer survivors, that hope goes by the name of a Houston, Texas, doctor named Stanislaw Burzynski. This book presents the astonishing story of Dr. Burzynski's revolutionary discovery of antineoplastons, the century's most promising cancer treatment--and the government's decade-long effort to suppress information about it. 30 photos.
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    345 pages
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    Lexikos Pub
  4. Publication date
    August 15, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0938530666
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0938530664
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Stanislaw Burzynski was born to a well-to-do family in Poland in 1942. While in medical school, he became involved in research and eventually discovered peptides in blood and urine that warranted further study as anticancer agents. In 1970, about to be drafted into the army, Burzynski left for the U.S. Given a chance to continue his research in Houston, Burzynski ultimately developed antineoplastons and established a large clinic. During the next 25 years, some 2,500 patients came to him; many of them had "failed" with the generally accepted chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Burzynski infused them with antineoplastons through a chest catheter, achieving successful results in a substantial number of cases. The FDA and organized medicine, however, launched political and legal attacks against him. Elias, whose partisanship is plain, interweaves Burzynski's story and the stories of some of his patients.Thorough scientific studies seem necessary to clarify the currently murky status of Burzynski's treatment. William Beatty --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexikos Pub; First Thus edition (August 15, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 345 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0938530666
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0938530664
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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  • Christos Zoupas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great information
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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    I'm still skeptical on this information as it is not tested on enough individuals. However the concepts are sound. I hope this book helps myself & others :)
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable eye-opening look into the world of FDA and medical corporate greed.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2017
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    Unbelievable eye-opening look into the world of FDA and medical corporate greed. Dr. Burzynski was a victim of a witch hunt to keep his CURE for brain cancer hidden due to corporate greed by MD Anderson and other huge hospital conglomerates.Things you never knew about the world of medicine and drug approval.
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  • Len Kramer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Burzynski Breakthrough
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2010
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    If you enjoy stories about how our government agencies control an industry for the sake of the almighty dollar, you will appreciate this story. Like me, you may be outraged as your read it.
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  • Kristie
    1.0 out of 5 stars This cost…???
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
    $230. For a book? Seriously??? If it truly works, undoubtedly worth it, but still - wow. Seems almost as greedy as dealing with the big pharma & the medical industry. Everyone is always looking to make a buck off the less fortunate I guess.
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  • G. Hunter
    4.0 out of 5 stars Any Hope is Hope
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2002
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    This book is written by Thomas Elias shows him as an advocate for Dr. Burzynski. This is not some book report. It is a relatively complete story of how Dr. Burzynski was man-handled by the FDA. The Burzynski Breakthrough talks of a system that subordinates the potential virtues of a new and exciting cancer treatment for the rigid and sometimes caustic bureaucratic requirements of the FDA.
    He also takes the time to detail several individuals that were positively impacted by Burzynski's treatments. There are also instances that recount treatments that were not successful.
    If you are interested about discovering what his anti-neoplastin treatment is or what the FDA did to him at our expense, this book is for you.
    If you need hope, this book may give you hope. I would not deny my child hope because some bibliography was not filled out correctly or some documentation of some report was not done to some random individual's liking. The fact is that his treatments have made a difference in many people's lives and the ones that they love.
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  • Jodi Gold
    5.0 out of 5 stars True Hope - A Response to Lauren Seiler
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2002
    I am the best evidence that the conclusions drawn by Lauren Seiler in his Oct. 20, 2002 review of this book are completely wrong. I hope he reads this and seeks out the Burzynski treatment for his son, whose life it might well save. I was diagnosed with an inoperable anaplastic astrocytoma (Grade 3 brain tumor) in May 2000. Doctors told me that I had somewhere between 6 and 18 months to live. I am alive and cancer free today in large part because of "The Burzynski Breakthrough," the book and the treatment. Shortly after my diagnosis, I learned of this book and, unlike Seiler, contacted the author with questions that were in some ways like his, and in some ways different. After reading the book and hearing Elias' answers, I sought out the treatment and was symptom free within less than four months - just when my other doctors had told me I should be on my deathbed.
    When I read Seiler's review, I telephone Elias and asked him to provide me responses to some of his criticisms. Here is a summary of what he told me, going through the Seiler review point by point:
    There is no bibliography in the rear of this book because every source is identified specifically in the text. Elias said his publisher did not wish to list all Burzynski's publications because they number more than 500, and he has cited the most relevant ones in the text of the book.
    Elias does indeed describe his methods for choosing patients included in the book. In both the prologue and epilogue, he details the cases of patients he met in the waiting room of the Burzynski Clinic on his first visit there, a completely unannounced visit. He included histories of all patients present who were willing to be interviewed in the epilogue and the prologue. As for the choice of which patients to use as full-length case-history chapters in in the book, Elias said they were chosen in a method he described as akin to the stratified random sampling done by political pollsters. Since he wanted broad geographic distribution (and got it, with patients from CA, AL, NY and points in between), he selectd at random from a list of Burzynski patients from various regions - the South, West, Northeast, etc.
    Seiler wondered about the authenticity of the tables in the rear of the book and asked how long those in complete remission had been at that category. As he would have seen had he read the charts in detail, all information came from Burzynski's submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration. He would risk criminal prosecution if any such information was falsified. The definitions of complete remission, partial response and stable disease are precisely those the FDA uses in all clinical trials of cancer drugs. Those listed in complete remission have been in that condition for varying lengths of time. The best evidence for the truth of positive results reported in the charts is the fact that negative results are also reported in the same charts. Neither Burzynski nor Elias has ever claimed this treatment is 100% successful.
    Seiler also notes that there is little critical comment in the book. In point of fact, the book contains an entire chapter detailing criticisms of Burzynski, his methods and his Antineoplastons, rebutting them in detail. It is simply false to say Elias has ignored the critics when he has specifically responded to the most prominent of those critics. As for criticisms by patients, Elias reports that even among prosecution witnesses at Burzynski's criminal trial in 1997, he found none.
    Elias also responds to Seiler's concluding comments, one by one:
    1. Elias admits on Page 8 not being an expert reader of MRIs. But, Seiler suggests, he should have brought an expert with him. Elias notes that on Page 8, part of his acknowledgements, he was discussing the news story he wrote on strict deadline about Burzynski while still a correspondent for Scripps Howard. He says he did seek expert readings of scans later, while researching the book.
    2. Seiler says Elias mentions a Stage 2 astrocytoma on Page 280, when these tumors are designated by grades, not stages. Elias responds by noting that the "Stage 2" reference came ina direct quotation from a physician, adding that he at no point changed even a word in any direct quotation included in the book.
    3. To Seiler's objection to one of Elias' conclusions, the author responds that "facts are facts. I describe the situation as it is, not what I or anyone lese wishes it to be."
    In short, I am living evidence that Elias does not offer false hope in his book, as Seiler claims. To the contrary, anyone who sees me (and hundreds of other long-surviving Burzynski patients) will know there is real hope with the Burzynski treatment for cancer patients of all kinds, and especially for brain tumor patients, for whom nothing else works at all.
    Jodi Gold - Los Angeles, CA
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  • A. Michelle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Investigative Journalism
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019
    In the 1970s, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski thought to compare urine & blood samples of both cancer patients and non-cancer patients. He discovered the cancer patients lacked certain naturally occurring peptides. He isolated some peptides that were commonly absent in cancer patients and found many had potent anti-cancer properties, which he named antineoplaston. Greek for “anticancer.”

    Author, Thomas Elias, alternates chapters of Burzynski’s government initialed legal battles (no patient malpractice lawsuits) with chapters of patients’ stories, which was a pleasant surprise. I learned so much about cancer and treatment success rates. Elias’ writing style made the topic easy to understand even when the text was buried in legal and medical jargon. I’m searching out some of his other books, since I enjoy his writing so much.



    This book is a nice balance to the skeptics whose websites dominate Google searches. The lies are thick and the pharmaceutical industry is insane. Although this book was written over 20 years ago and Burzynski is still going strong, I could not find any credible patient complaints against him.



    As I look at options for an autoimmune diagnosis just received, I appreciate the reminder of what really drives the medical-industrial complex and therefore what really drives me to look at alternative treatments. 



    Reading this book if your life has been touched by cancer seems like a smart idea. If ever I receive a cancer diagnosis, I’m going immediately to Burzynski's Houston office. (As it stands, the RA treatment I wish to explore was made illegal by the FDA in 2013, even though it shows amazing preliminary results.)
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