Burzynski

Synopsis: Ph.D biochemist, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, won one of the largest legal battles against the Food & Drug Administration in U.S. history. Dr. Burzynski and his patients endured a treacherous 14-year journey in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials for a new cancer-fighting drug. His groundbreaking medical and legal battles have brought revolutionary cancer treatment to the public. Upon completion, his treatment will be available the world over - sending a shock wave through the cancer industry.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Eric Merola
Production: Gravitas
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
24
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
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Year:
2010
108 min
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This is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D. biochemist

who has discovered gene-targeted cancer medicines

that are known to cure most types of human cancers.

The opening 30 minutes of this film is designed to thoroughly

establish this fact - so the viewer can fully appreciate

the events that follow it.

My name is Sergeant Ric Schiff. I am an eleven-year

veteran of the San Francisco police department.

I hold the department's highest medal of honor for bravery

that used to mean a lot more to me than it does now.

What Id like to talk to

you about today is my now 7 year old daughter.

This is an identical twin, her sister is now dead.

Her sister, when she was 4 years old, Crystin developed a highly

malignant brain tumor that had spread throughout her

spine and her brain.

The doctors told us that we had really no options-

take her home and let her die,

or bring her in for massive dosages of chemo and

radiation simultaneously.

In either event she was going to die, they were

quite certain of that - and very quickly.

Believing her only chance to be the standard route,

we gave her the chemo and radiation.

It burnt her skull so bad she had second degree burns

and her hair never came back.

To change her diapers we had to wear rubber gloves

because her urine was so toxic and it burned her.

At the end of 6 months, miraculously she survived the standard

treatment, although there was a high expectation that she wouldn't.

She still had cancer. We were told "sorry...

...we've done everything we can, now she's going to die,

probably within a couple of months."

My wife and I choosing not to accept that, started reading

-the first book I picked up, the third chapter,

discussed Dr. Burzynski.

As you may guess, I have some expertise in fraud,

in fact I'm quite certain there are enough attorneys in the room

that I could be voir-dired as an expert in fraud

-and, I conducted my own investigation.

I have no doubt the man is not a fraud.

I have no doubt that he does what he does out of earnest belief

that his medicine works.

Now, you are in a position to judge for yourselves whether it

works or not

-but it's well established by the FDA, that it's non-toxic.

Eighteen months later,

we took my daughter off the Antineoplastons

-she had not died. She had no signs of tumor, she remained

free for eighteen months of cancer.

Within a month, the cancer was wide-spread in her brain.

We put her back on Burzynski's

-by the way at the objections of our doctors

who for some reason felt that it had failed her.

We put her back on [Antineoplastons]-

within nine weeks the tumor was completely gone.

She died last July, of neurological necrosis-

-her brain fell apart from the radiation.

The autopsy showed that she was completely cancer-free.

Out of fifty-two cases of that disease ever,

no one died cancer-free, just Cryssie.

So she didn't die of a terminal illness-

-she died of my inability to care for her properly

and she died from bad advice.

She died because there is a government institution,

that disseminates false information

and is not looking out for the welfare of the people.

You know, ladies and gentlemen I swore an oath eleven

years ago and I think most of us in this room swore it at

one time or another to uphold the constitution?

It says "life" right in the beginning.

I first heard of Dr. Burzynski back in the late 1980's...

when he was in a battle with the Texas Medical Board and the FDA

regarding his innovative approach to cancer.

I wasn't surprised by that-anyone who is innovative in

medicine creates waves in the medical system.

However, in his case, I was continually surprised that

they didn't put him out of business.

I kept hearing about him. So in the mid 1990's I said:

"Dr. Burzynski, I want to come down and visit your clinic

and find out what you're doing, it's very new to me."

When I arrived, he had seven

charts ready for me to review-

that had been reviewed by the National Cancer

Institute who also made a site visit the year before.

The National Cancer Institute

reported that these seven patients

were either in complete remission,

or there was substantial improvement.

I was astounded.

Dr. Burzynski had MRIs of brain tumors,

-known to be almost universally

fatal, that had simply disappeared.

It was obvious to me, that Dr. Burzynski had made the most important discovery in cancer treatment

- ever.

It's what we have been looking for.

A Polish native, named Stanislaw Burzynski, attended Lublin

Medical University where he graduated first in his class at age 24

-and then received his PhD in

biochemistry the following year.

While undergoing his research to acquire his PhD,

Dr. Burzynski made a profound discovery.

He found a strain of peptides in human blood and urine,

that had never before been recorded in biomedical research.

As his curiosity in these peptides evolved,

he made another profound observation

-people who were inflicted with cancer, seemed to lack

these newly discovered peptides in both their blood and urine

-while those who were healthy and free of cancer

appeared to have an abundance of these peptides.

Dr. Burzynski theorized that if he could somehow provide a way to

chemically extract these peptides from the blood and urine of healthy donors,

and administer these peptides to those with cancer-

perhaps it would be useful in treating the disease.

Now discovering something in the urine at that time,

that had not been discovered before

is like finding a whole bunch of islands ten miles off the coast of

Miami, it came as a big surprise.

All of the sudden he was besmirched as the urine doctor.

We forget that extracting things from

the urine is an established medical modality.

Tens of millions of women have been swallowing

extracts of horse urine, Premarin, for decades

-but all of the sudden it was abhorrent to our sensitivities.

Well, Dr. Burzynski now synthesizes all of the Antineoplastons.

Dr. Burzynski's manufacturing facility in Stafford, Texas, where

his Antineoplastons are now synthesized, is a multi-million dollar,

46,000 square-foot facility,

which staffs five engineers, four chemists, three pharmacists,

four medical doctors, and four researchers.

From where we started in the 1970's, is now forming

a completely new approach to cancer treatment-

-which is called "gene-targeted therapy". Antineoplastons are

medicines which work on the genes that are causing cancer,

and now, there is 25 medications which belong to the

family of gene-targeted therapy

which are approved by the FDA in the United States.

The problem with these medicines is that they don't

cover as many genes as Antineoplastons,

many of them simply work on single genes, and this is

not enough to have long-term responses.

A single medicine is not going to do it, it's not enough.

Antineoplastons work on close to one hundred different genes.

Our bodies contain two categories of genes that allow cancer to flourish:

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