Burzynski Page #7

Well, Dr. Burzynski has won his latest round in court,

the Medical Examiners order was reversed,

but that is not expected to be the end of his trouble

with the state of Texas.

The Texas Medical Board took this imaginary

case all the way to the Texas State supreme court,

where the judge issued an erroneous probation order

against Burzynski, which Burzynski successfully served.

But, again, leaving the Texas Medical Board completely

unsuccessful in their efforts to remove his medical license.

So if efficacy was not an issue, and Dr. Burzynski wasn't

breaking any laws, then why would the Texas Medical Board

continue on with this empty pursuit?

Well, it was eventually realized - even by the mainstream press

- that the Food and Drug Administration

had been pressuring the Texas Medical Board to continue

tying to take away Dr. Burzynski's medical license.

For this story we wanted to talk to

the FDA about its policies and procedures.

The FDA did agree to talk to us on background

where it wouldn't be quoted,

but it repeatedly refused

our requests for on-camera interviews.

While they were busy pressuring the Texas State Medical Board

to try to revoke Dr. Burzynski's medical license,

they were even busier tying to revoke Dr. Burzynski

completely from society - by trying to place him in prison.

The FDA and PhRMA quickly realized that if Dr. Burzynski's

discovery would be given a fair review process,

not only would chemotherapy and radiation dwindle into obscurity,

financially crippling the industry,

but it would also mean that for the first time in history,

all of that income would funnel away from PhRMA and into the lap

of one single scientist who holds the exclusive patent rights.

Apparently, the FDA had not ruled out

the possibility of this happening one day.

On March 12th, 1976, FDA Bureau of Drugs Director Richard Crout

states in "The Cancer Letter":

"when anyone other than large institutions ask permission

to conduct clinical trials, you want harsh regulations"

"sometimes we say it is proper to hinder research"

"and once these guidelines were adopted,

the FDA would consider itself 'bound' by them."

In 1982, Crout states again:

"I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual,

but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances."

And so, the fiercest fight in FDA history began.

Dr. Burzynski's dealings with the FDA commenced in 1983.

At that point the FDA commenced a civil action to try to close the

clinic and stop all patients from receiving the medicine.

Before the judge in this case had announced her ruling,

the FDA sent her a letter, warning her in advance,

"if this court declines to grant the injunction sought be the government"

"thus permitting continued manufacture

and distribution of antineoplastons"

"the government would then be obliged

to pursue other less efficient remedies"

"such as actions for seizure"

(also known as raiding his clinic and home)

"and condemnation of the drugs"

(also known as a propaganda campaign)

"or criminal prosecution of individuals"

(also known as throwing Dr. Burzynski in prison)

Regardless of these threats from the FDA:

... the judge in the case basically said

he can treat anybody he wants in Texas,

but he can't ship his medicine in interstate commerce.

The FDA viewed that as a failure and told

Dr. Burzynski's attorneys at the time that

they "have other ways to get him".

Let's talk about the other ways.

In 1985, the FDA convened a grand jury to hear

evidence to try to indict Dr. Burzynski.

In connection with that they had a raid of his clinic

where they seized 200,000 pieces of paper including

all of his medical records of all patients.

It's a little difficult to practice medicine when

you don't have medical records.

Obviously they came armed,

and they confiscated all of our medical records.

It took us about 12 to 14 years to recover these medical records.

In the meantime we were permitted to make

copies of these medical records in their office.

But it was also a neglect of human well-being,

we were treating very sick people

and they took their medical records,

we needed these medical records to

fight for the lives of these patients.

But they took this away, they didn't care for these patients,

the patients could die. They were not important.

They presented the evidence to the grand jury, no indictment.

In 1986 they come back and seize another

100,000 documents, no indictment.

I just have a lot of trouble in knowing how much pain-

and what people go through that have cancer,

and since 1967 you've been saying "I can help these patients", and

people are saying to you "forget it", "you aren't allowed to help them",

and you have gone outside of the county

and they accept what you are doing,

and here we say "no"? Are we that backwards doctor?

Yes.

What do you mean yes?

Are we that backward?

Yes.

It's very unfortunate that there is a big gap between people's pain

and suffering, and what the powers that be are willing to accept, or

how they allow cancer patients to be treated.

It's difficult for doctors to deny 10 or 12 years of their medical

training, and suddenly believe that some guy from Houston

has invented an effective therapy by himself.

Isn't it part of your problem that the treatment of cancer is a very

profitable industry for a lot of companies and that your treatment

will threaten those companies profits?

Bingo!

I would think that the people who administer chemotherapy,

and the drug companies, would have a very good reason for

not supporting you.

I would disagree with that.

As Dr. Burzynski has pointed out himself, the patients he's treating are

patients who are not currently eligible for chemotherapy or radiation.

If we were to find a new drug that had a high cure rate of cancer, it

would give us the opportunity to treat many patients for whom we

do not currently have effective therapies now.

In 1990, another grand jury, either the second or the third,

they present more documents,

Dr. Burzynski testifies extensively before the grand jury,

no indictment.

In 1991 to 1993, the FDA investigates Dr. Burzynski,

we don't know if evidence was presented to another grand jury.

In 1994, another grand jury, no indictment.

1995, another grand jury,

this grand jury started in March of this year, on March 25th

it was Dr. Burzynski along with a few of his patients

appeared on CBS Show This Morning...

Let me play devil's advocate,

you all were very desperate folk,

you had undergone some cancer treatment correct?

None at all for you?

No, I had no treatment

you had undergone some treatment,

could it not have been that the treatment that you

received prior to Dr. Burzynski's treatment was what

in fact really cured you?

I'll jump on that, no way,

because the recurrence I had was in a brand new spot

that had not been involved before

so if all the punishment that I went through for the year went out of

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