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my system, and after it went out of my system all of the sudden a

new tumor comes in

how could that first treatment have helped the subsequent tumor?

Later that day the FDA came-another raid.

More patients documents, more subpoenas...

We were flooded with calls last Friday

with people wanting to know how to get a hold of you,

they are going to see this story this morning,

see that you've been raided by the FDA,

and they are going to want to know if you are for real,

or if the concerns of the FDA may have something to do

with your treatments and the viability of your treatments.

Let me jump in here, I don't think there's really an issue

as I mentioned regarding the safety of the drug,

and the FDA isn't contending at this point that the drug doesn't work,

the only issue is that according to the FDA it has

not been proven by controlled clinical trials,

so at least in terms of safety the FDA isn't saying that it's not

safe and the FDA isn't even saying that it doesn't work, alright,

right now they're just contesting, or apparently they're contesting

whether Dr. Burzynski himself has

been shipping the medicine out of state,

which in some respects is quite ridiculous

since he has approval to ship the medicine out of state

to various cancer institutions around the county,

he ships it out of the county to various countries,

because it's being used in other places and he ships it to individuals

who have been granted permission by the FDA to receive

the medicine under what is called "compassionate use INDs

(investigational new drug)".

May, June, and July more witnesses testify before the grand jury,

more documents.

So we've had now-four, five, or six grand juries.

Let me talk about the subpoena practices:

most recently,

the FDA has now subpoenaed the medical records of every patient

who has gone on TV and told their story about Dr. Burzynski.

We'll let the committee judge what they think of that.

Let's talk about dissemination of false information by the FDA:

in 1985 the FDA tells anyone who calls inquiring about Dr. Burzynski

that he's being criminally investigated.

When the judge in the case found out about that,

he issued a cease and desist and a strong reprimand against that.

The FDA now has refined this tactic,

instead of waiting for people to call up the FDA,

what they'd done is subpoena all the records from

Dr. Burzynski about his business associates and all the

researchers around the world,

and there are many of them who are researching antineoplastons-

his therapy.

Now what they are doing is systematically contacting everyone,

who does business with him, or who may do business with him,

and telling about the grand jury investigations

and subpoenaing documents

I believe that they are doing this in order to

make it more difficult for him to do business.

I'd like the following questions to be asked to the FDA:

how much money have they spent in the last

ten years to try to put Dr. Burzynski out of business?

How many documents can they subpoena?

And how many more grand juries does he have to go to?

And why can't patients, who have advanced cancer,

seek the medical treatment of their choice?

Upon the commencement of the FDA's

1995 grand jury against Dr. Burzynski,

an oversight and investigations subcommittee was organized by

Congressman Joe Barton in an attempt to intervene in the FDA's

relentless harassment of Dr. Burzynski and his patients.

In my opinion, you have every right to use the investigative authority

and the judicial resources of the federal government

to the justice department to convene a grand jury,

that's very appropriate, the first time, perhaps even the second time,

it becomes questionable the third time, the fourth time,

and the fifth time,

it is not I think an illogical conclusion to think that the

FDA has a vendetta against Dr. Burzynski,

or wants to retaliate for some reason-now, that's my opinion.

How many grand jury investigations have to occur,

that result in no finding of fault

before you as commissioner of the FDA would encourage

those within your organization to cease and desist?

Mr. Chairman, how do you know that there were no findings

of fault that were returned from that grand jury?

There have been no indictments returned.

Mr. Chairman, I'll ask counsel to comment,

but I don't think those are the same-

-as a matter of law those are the same things.

I'm baffled by the splitting of hairs here but-

I am just trying to understand the exchange

between the witness and the chairman.

What I understood the chairman to say is that there

have been four grand juries convened?

At least four.

I am left then with rather strong inference

that if you convene four separate grand juries

and there is no indictment returned,

notwithstanding that prosecutors tell us always

that it's possible to indict a ham sandwich-

-that probably there's not much there.

Dozens of Dr. Burzynski's patients who had traveled to

Washington D.C. from all corners of the United States

stood up and expressed their outrage

with the FDA and Commissioner David Kessler.

The FDA has made a list,

and decided who can live and who will die,

I guess I didn't make that list.

I've had no chemotherapy, I've had no radiation,

I choose Dr. Burzynski instead after a lot of

research and a lot of searching.

I've been in remission since 1989.

Dr. Kessler:
I'm not a statistic.

We're frustrated, there are rights, our constitutional rights

have been violated, this has got to end,

my children are asking me "daddy what does the future hold",

my one daughter wrote a letter to the president of this county

and said "please don't pull the plug on my daddy".

And that just broke my heart and broke my wife's heart.

My husband is a walking miracle,

sixteen months ago our doctors told us

there is nothing else they can do,

and they told us to enjoy what little life he has left.

Look at him,

he biked 32 miles after being on Dr. Burzynski's

treatment for two months

and they're saying we can't have it?

I have a report from my family physician which

tells how well I am doing,

my tumors are leaving my body,

and my condition is improving every day

Now the FDA is saying to me:

"no, your doctor is a criminal,

he should be put in jail, and he needs to be shut down"

... this is criminal!

I want the FDA to get out of our lives and

stay out of our doctor-patient relationship.

What the classical conventional medicine

had to do for me was there-nothing.

For me, the next thing was the minister.

I did not want to undergo chemotherapy, which I had

a new name for, "kill 'em therapy". Or any type of radiation,

I was extremely lucky that I found Dr. Burzynski.

And I don't want the FDA to take this right from me.

I came eighteen years ago from Communist Romania,

and the tyrant dictator Ceausescu,

never stopped a doctor from treating anybody.

How can we have something like this in the United States?

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