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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
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IMDB:
7.4
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24
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
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Year:
2010
108 min
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oncogenes, and tumor suppressor genes.

When someone has cancer, they have a

higher level of oncogenes switched on, with a higher

level tumor suppressor genes switched off.

The goal is to tell the body to both switch back on the tumor

suppressor genes, and turn off as many oncogenes as possible.

Statistically, every day, one out of 10,000 cells in

our body may develop in the wrong way,

and some of these cells may become cancerous cells.

But why we don't develop cancer all of us,

is because we have a protective system

-we have Antineoplastons who will immediately force

these malignant cells to die, by working on the genes:

by turning on the genes which fight cancer,

and turning off the genes which promote cancer,

as long as we have proper amount of Antineoplastons

in our system we should not develop cancer,

if we are deficient then we can develop cancer.

This means I put together the theory of the second

quote/unquote immune system in our body.

Today, Dr. Burzynski is permitted by the FDA to treat cancer

patients using Antineoplastons in FDA-approved clinical trials.

Since brain cancer is one of the most difficult types of cancer to treat,

he places a heavy focus on brain cancer in his clinical trials.

On May 15th of 2000,

I was diagnosed with an inoperable, stage three,

anaplastic astrocytoma brain tumor.

Following my diagnosis I was told that l

had six to eighteen months to live.

So I met with an oncologist there in

Los Angeles and in San Francisco,

and they were telling me at that time-the oncologist told me

that the protocol for me would be to do Temodar,

which is a chemotherapy, followed by a course of radiation.

I asked them what that treatment would get me

and they said maybe five years.

Maybe five years of life?

So of course I asked what would happen after five years,

if I get to that five years

and they said "well, we'll see what's available at that time"

meaning I would perpetually be on a course of treatment.

Didn't sound good enough for me.

Also at that time I had heard about Dr. Burzynski in Houston,

and I found out about Dr. Burzynski through a friend of mine.

But I met with a prominent neurosurgeon here,

who wrote off Dr. Burzynski.

He told me point blank that "antineoplastons don't work".

But Dr. Burzynski's treatment really sounded right to me.

So I started on his treatment on June 6, of 2000.

In December of 2000, all that was left of the tumor was scar tissue

-and again, this was confirmed through an MRI.

On October of 2001 I stopped Antineoplaston therapy altogether.

I've had annual MRIs since that time, so over the

course of the last eight years,

annual MRIs have confirmed, all that's left of the tumor is scar tissue

-and I've been off the treatment for that entire time.

So, Dr. Burzynski cured me of a brain tumor.

If we review Jodi Fenton's medical records, who was

known at this time as Jodi Gold, before she was married in 2005

-it shows she underwent an MRI at St. John's medical

center in Los Angeles on May 11th of 2000,

where they found a two centimeter mass, which they

suspected was cancer.

The pathology department at

St. John's performed a biopsy four days later, and confirmed

that she did indeed have a malignant brain tumor.

Ordinarily the FDA requires that anyone who wishes to be a part of

Dr. Burzynski's trials, must first have already undergone

chemotherapy and radiation-and failed.

However, since Jodi's tumor was so aggressive and her prognosis

severely grim, she managed to get special exception status to be

placed into this trial without undergoing any other

prior treatment whatsoever.

An MRI on June 1st of 2000, revealed the size of the enhancing

portion of Jodi's tumor, which was the part of her tumor

that was the most aggressively growing.

On June 6th, she started Antineoplaston treatment, and by July 3rd,

only a month after starting treatment the enhancing

portion of her tumor was gone.

Her tumor remained non-existent up until

September of the following year, when she stopped

her antineoplaston therapy altogether.

It's one thing to be shown a single anecdotal case with this type of

brain tumor, and it's another to simply compare clinical trial data

of inoperable anaplastic astrocytoma patients

treated with toxic radiation and chemotherapy,

versus, clinical trial data using only Dr. Burzynski's

non-toxic Antineoplaston therapy.

A 2005 clinical trial report using only radiation and chemotherapy,

found that 5 of 54 patients, or 9%, were cancer-free

at the end of treatment.

While a 2008 clinical trial report using only Antineoplastons, found

that 5 of 20 patients, or 25%, were cancer-free at the end of

treatment-with no toxic side-effects. Jodi Fenton is one of them.

If Jodi Fenton had undergone the therapies

originally prescribed to her,

her life would have been very different.

Now she is alive, well, and prospering.

It's as if she had a bacterial infection, and

Dr. Burzynski treated it with antibiotics.

Four years after my diagnosis,

I had run into one of the neuro-oncologists I had met with,

And told him that I had gone to Dr. Burzynski and I was cured,

and he kind of wrote it off.

I was very excited to tell him that I was cured,

and he really burst my bubble about it.

So it was somewhat depressing for me.

Another doctor that I have, when I told him

that I had anaplastic astrocytoma,

he was very excited, he was like "bleep! bleep! bleep!

I can't believe this is you, because do you know what the

prognosis for this is?",

and I said yes. He said "l can't believe you survived this",

and he was very excited for me.

Now, if you are ever going to go into cancer treatment,

you do not want to go into childhood brain tumors.

Because childhood brain tumors by-in-large are 100% fatal.

This would be the worst class of cancers to treat,

but he began getting enormous success.

Arguably, the worst type of cancer is inoperable brainstem glioma.

It usually occurs in the brain of a child.

And, unfortunately, there is very little that can be done.

Radiation is the only "treatment" available which can

be used to slow down the progress.

So that's the type of tumor for which there is no curative treatment,

no chemotherapy which has been approved,

and numerous clinical trials

were performed but failed in the past.

So we selected this type of tumor because we would

like to prove the point beyond any doubt

that this type of cancer can

be cured by the use of Antineoplastons,

and we already have proof that it can be cured.

She was diagnosed in March of 1996, she was eleven,

and pretty much just started having really bad

double vision is how we discovered it and went to the eye doctor

and that's when they did the MRI and

discovered it was a brainstem glioma.

And they explained that hers was diffused, where it was like the

Healthy tissue and the cancerous tissue were swirled together

-so of course surgery wasn't an option.

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