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cancer he had successfully treated using Antineoplastons.

In patients ranging from breast, bladder, lung, liver, brain,

head and neck, and lymphoma.

After submitting these cases to the medical board, he didn't

hear back from them, leaving him to assume that the

board was satisfied and would leave him in peace.

However, two years later, the board came back again, pretended

that the cases he submitted were not successful,

and claimed he was violating a law that didn't exist,

which was grounds for the board to

cancel, revoke, or suspend his license.

It was a shock to me.

I believed in justice, I believed in the high ethics of the board

but this was just a lie.

The medical board had no case against Burzynski.

Which prompted the board to file their

first amended complaint in 199O

-still the board had no case-which prompted

them to file a second amended complaint in 1992.

The medical board kept coming back each time with the same

argument, practically making Xerox copies of their prior claims,

changing the titles and simply resubmitting them.

After about five years of this, sixty of Dr. Burzynski's patients

petitioned the board to stop harassing their doctor.

The board then tried to ignore these petitions by

attempting to strike them from the record.

Finally in May of 1993, this case went to trial.

Their tumors will grow, they will lose their vision,

they will be paralyzed and they will die.

Because there is nothing else in this world that can

save these patients lives.

You intend to continue treating patients until

somebody is able to stop you is that not true?

I am going to do what the law will allow me to do.

I will do whatever is necessary to bring my medicines to

approval in the United States and everywhere in the world,

and bring you to justice

for causing the deaths of 200 patients.

And it will come back here to haunt you until you are dead.

Are you threatening me Dr. Burzynski?

I am not threatening you, I am telling you

what will happen in the future.

Well I think that is something that remains to be seen.

[JUDGE EARL CORBITT, LAW JUDGE IN THIS CASE]

I had never heard of Dr Burzynski, I did not know anything about him.

I never understood what the medical board's problem was.

The medical board did not bring any expert witnesses

to contest Dr. Burzynski.

Without an expert opinion to give an opinion in certain areas,

I can't give any credit to an opinion raised by a layman.

And Dr Burzynski brought in Dr. Nicholas Patronas.

Some of the most dramatic testimony on Dr Burzynski's

behalf came from Dr. Nicholas Patronas.

A Georgetown University expert who is the member of the

National Cancer Institute's team

that analyzed seven of Dr Burzynski's cancer cases.

The basic conclusion was: in five of the patients with brain tumors,

that were fairly large, the tumor disappeared.

It's amazing. The fact that they are living at all.

It's impressive and unbelievable.

He was a very powerful witness.

He said he had never seen results like what Dr. Burzynski

could accomplish treating brain cancer with his Antineoplastons.

There was a 12 year-old boy at this hearing, he was a tall boy.

When he was 4 years old, he started Antineoplaston treatment,

I believe his name was Paul.

Paul was given up on by his original doctor.

When Mary Michaels took the stand on behalf of her son Paul,

she pointed her eyes at the Texas prosecutor.

I have enough to worry about when I go to bed at

night thinking about my son and my family.

I do not need to worry that this therapy is going to be taken away.

What do you think might happen if...

... never mind, I don't have any more questions.

For all I know the kid might still be alive.

Paul Michaels in 2011 - 25 years old

Remains cancer-free

The judge ruled in Dr. Burzynski's favor.

Finding that the medical board did not introduce any evidence

at the hearing that Antineoplastons are not safe and effective,

nor did they introduce any competent or substantial

evidence at the hearing that

Antineoplastons are not generally recognized by experts qualified

by scientific training and experience to evaluate their

safety and effectiveness.

And, as far as the law goes, it does not apply to a licensed

physician who manufactures his own medications and solely

uses it on his own patients in the state of Texas.

Now, most would think that at this point the

Texas Medical Board would stop wasting their time,

Burzynski's time, terminal cancer patients' time, and the taxpayers

money, pursuing a case they knew they couldn't win.

Then the Medical Board told me after the hearing that they

were going to change my decision for this case,

and take other actions against Dr. Burzynski,

and I told them that doing so would be very foolish.

Well, think again.

The state of Texas wants Houston doctor Stanislaw Burzynski to

stop treating his patients with drugs that he produces at his

own pharmaceutical plant.

The drugs called Antineoplastons are non-toxic compounds of

proteins and amino acids,

often lacking in cancer patients.

Even though the state of Texas acknowledges that the drugs

may be helping some who are terminally ill,

the state says the drugs shouldn't be used.

This is the state board of medical examiners,

which licenses doctors in Texas

this is the agency challenging Dr. Burzynski in court.

One judge has already told the board members

that they don't have a case.

All of this nonsense which is going on now should disappear.

Because they should realize that I am right, okay?

They are fighting a losing battle.

I am saving human lives, and if they put me out of business,

the people will die.

This is the brain of an eight-year-old boy with a huge

tumor most thought would kill him.

He used Dr. Burzynski's drug.

Images of his skull taken six years later show the

tumor has almost disappeared.

Dr. Bruce Cohen is the director of neurologic oncology

at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic.

The only explanation is that it shrunk because of the

therapy Paul has received.

He confirmed Dr. Burzynski's results on Paul.

Seven years that we've had Paul and he's been healthy,

I owe it to this man, and there is no way Id ever be

Able to thank him enough for what he's done for us.

Today that boy Paul Michaels and his anxious family

sit in the courtroom with other patients.

Undeterred by the 1993 ruling,

the Texas Medical Board took Dr. Burzynski to a

higher, district court.

Of course this time they knew they couldn't raise any issues

about whether or not his treatment was effective:

The Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, which has

fought to suspend Dr. Burzynski's license

because his treatments have never been approved, says quote:

"The efficacy of Antineoplastons in the treatment of

human cancers is not of issue in these proceedings."

It takes a bureaucrat to come up with that idea,

because, to a layman, that would really be the question.

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