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The Cancer Industry Finally Discovers Laetrile
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In September 2000 The BBC broadcast the following news:
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Laetrile
What these researchers have done is 'discover' laetrile -- a cancer treatment
pioneered in 1950 by Dr Ernst T Krebs jr and used successfully by him in
partnership with H H Beard in the middle of the 20th century.
Laetrile is still a very well-known treatment which has had great success in
unconventional cancer circles. It was suppressed vigorously by the medical
profession. One practitioner, Jimmy Keller, reckoned on an 80% success rate if
the cancer patient had not had chemotherapy, and 60% if he had. This is far,
far better than anything that conventional medicine can achieve. Unfortunately,
Keller was not a doctor, and only doctors are allowed to treat cancer in the
USA, so he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for curing people. Hundreds
of people who had been cured by Keller lobbied the judge in 1997 and Keller's
sentence was reduced to 2 years suspended, on condition that he stopped curing
cancers. He came out of prison in January 1998. However, many cancer patients,
who had not been helped by conventional medicine, came to him to be cured. A
kind and humane man, Keller hadn't the heart to turn them away so the
authorities locked him up again. In the USA curing people is a heinous crime.
Laetrile is a compound, amygdalin, which contains cyanide. It is found in fruit
pits, particularly of apricots. This 'new discovery' is that linamarin, found
in cassava, hydrangea, etcetera, is a similar cyanide-bearing compound.
As this compound is 'new', no doubt they can patent it and make a lot of money
out of what they have derided as quackery for so long.
But the linamarin substance is not as effective as amygdalin - laetrile.
To find more about laetrile, just enter the word into a search engine. World
Without Cancer's website is a good place to start.
How Laetrile works
Laetrile (amygdalin) is a simple compound found most abundantly in the seeds of
non-citrus fruits. Most commercially prepared laetrile is extracted from
apricot seeds. Laetrile is composed of two molecules of glucose (sugar), one
molecule of benzaldehyde (an analgesic) and one molecule of hydrocyanic acid (a
cell-killing compound). It is the hydrocyanic acid which kills cancer cells.
Laetrile's action relies on a chemical difference between normal cells and
cancer cells:
- Cancer cells contain in abundance an enzyme called beta-glucosidase; normal cells have very little of it.
- Normal cells have large quantities of another enzyme called rhodanese; cancer cells are deficient in that.
Laetrile is broken down into its component parts as a result of the action of
beta-glucosidase. As normal cells are deficient in this, most of the cyanide is
released only in cancer cells. With nothing to control it, the cyanide released
destroys the cancer cells.
In normal body tissue, deficient in beta-glucosidase, very little cyanide is
released and rhodanese, in the presence of sulphur-bearing compounds, converts
the little free cyanide which may be released to thiocyanate which is not
toxic. This thiocyanate is then excreted in the urine. In this way normal cells
survive unharmed.
The cancer industry has been searching for decades for a 'magic bullet', a
treatment which targets only cancer cells without damaging normal cells, and
there it was all the time and they refused to acknowledge it.
Last updated 14 December 2000
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