World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17

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Summary: OUTSTANDING BOOK!!!
Review: THE INFORMATION IN THIS BOOK IS SO SHOCKING AND WELL WRITTEN YOU WILL BE AMAZED WHY IT HASNT RECEIVE HEAD LINE NEWS ABOUT A TREATMENT FOR CANCER!!THE REASON IS SIMPLE THE DARK FORCES IN THE MEDIA AND THE DRUG INDUSTRY HAVE RIDICULED THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT EXPOSES THE FRUAD IN THE SO CALLED FIGHT AGANST CANCER!!A MUST READ IT IS A SHOCKING SINISTER STORY THAT READS LIKE A MYSTERY!!

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Summary: Only for those who TRULY desire to be cancer-free...
Review: This book has changed my entire perspective about cancer, medicine, politics, and big business. No one needs any longer to become victim to the ravages of cancer, traditional cancer treatments and the greed of the cancer industry. This 2 part book first gives the layman an insiders powerful understanding about cancer from the earliest pioneers and heros of cancer research to the practical cancer-free life available today. Second, this well-documented expose of the billion dollar cancer industry will leave chills running down your spine. Finally, the author's quick and rivoting style effortlessly engages the reader - leaving no excuse for anyone to ignorantly fall prey to the deadly deception of cancer conmen!

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Summary: The only book you'll ever need to read about Cancer.
Review: This book is only for those who have the guts to face the TRUTH and there is no better researcher that I have found anywhere than G. Edward Griffin. He has dug into a very, very ugly situation and exposed why Cancer is killing all our loved ones, and also the profiteers who have created and are perpetuating the problem. THANK YOU, Mr. Griffin, for all you have done in trying to save humanity from this monstrous suffering perpetrated by our real enemies. God bless all those who listen.
"My people perish for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6
j. mueller, CA

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Summary: Incredible eye-opener! HIGHLY recommended!
Review: This is a MUST READ, whether you know anyone with cancer or not. It exposes a great deal of corruption in our United States political system and our American Medical Association, almost to the levels of the Internal Revenue Service (although nothing can reach the levels of corruption of that organization, in my humble opinion).

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Summary: A Life Saving Book
Review: Though I know Griffin is a credible researcher, I nonetheless tracked down several cancer survivors who have used laetrile to cure their condition, and vitamin distributors who have had B-17 seized by the FDA. There is no substitute for primary sources, and those I interviewed substantiated Griffin's main claims.

Individuals unfamiliar with B-17's remarkable results often scoff at such alternative medical "lunacy". Two caveats may aid the hard-nosed skeptic. As Griffin admits candidly, B-17 isn't a magic cure-all; it is a key component in a holistic regimen that requires serious lifestyle changes and genuine sacrifice. The mere fact that the FDA outlawed laetrile is not prima facie proof that it fails to cure cancer; an open minded individual might ask, "Does scientific evidence proving that laetrile cures cancer exist?"

Griffin provides this evidence. His thesis is that cancer is a vitamin deficiency disease analogous to scurvy and that mainstream "treatments" such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery are quackery analogous to colonial bloodletting. The book is divided into two sections, one which defines cancer and its cure, and a second that explains how and why this knowledge was suppressed.

Some complain that the first portion of the book is boring, excessively technical, and textbookish. This isn't Harry Potter or Danielle Steel! It is an explanation of complex biological processes. Amazing claims require stringent proof, and Griffin takes the time to make his case fastidiously, in terms laymen can understand.

Griffin explains that cancer is caused by fast-growing quasi-embryonic cells which are used by the body in healing. The body uses enzymes secreted by the pancreas to turn this process off when healing is completed, but these enzymes are also used in digestion, and moderners who deviate from our intended hunter-gather diet squander them breaking down processed food. In the absence of these prohibitive enzymes, the quasi-embryonic cells grow unchecked. This is cancer. To cure or prevent it, one reverts to a diet that does not drain the enzymes, and supplements their supply by ingesting an external source--B-17. Mainstream treatments are a failure because they do not address this underlying cause of cancer; Griffin explains why chemo, radiation, and surgery victims who survive do so spite of these procedures, not because of them.

Griffin does an excellent job of synthesizing many divergent factors into a coherent biological summary of cancer. B-17's active ingredient is cyanide, and he debunks the myth that the vitamin is the equivalent of a secret agent's suicide capsule. He also provides damning statistical comparisons of holistic and conventional treatment methods.

The second part of the book is much drier, but it is necessary. Griffin journeys back to WWII and documents the evolution of IG Farben, the Nazi supercorporation which was the largest business structure to ever exist. This portion is a long, often boring read, but I can't envision anything shorter driving home the truth: that modern chemical corporations which are Farben's scions used tax-exempt foundations and government agencies like the FDA to hijack the medical education and physician treatment selection process, creating a drug-biased system that maximizes pharmaceutical profits.

It is easy to chant the power-and-profit-stifle-more-viable-treatments mantra, but it is a much more difficult task to prove what so many suspect. Griffin succeeds, proceeding like a prosecutor and systematically documenting causalities. His discouraging conclusion is that there will not be a world without cancer until pharmaceutical corporations can create a synthetic B-17 drug which offers profit levels comparable to those earned by chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

Many individuals dogmatically refuse to believe that there are individuals who would suppress a low-priced, natural, highly-effective cancer treatment merely to make money. This emotional people-can't-be-that-evil response is unscientific. Such behaviors are reminiscent of individuals who refused to believe the stories of NAZI concentration camps--even after seeing pictures. Griffin cites everything, and any diligent researcher can confirm his claims, as I have.

Enzyme supplements. Juice fasts. Detoxification. Robert Becker's Nobel-nominated work with dedifferentiation in salamanders. Pleomorphism. Pondering these potential additions to the cancer picture, I find myself agreeing with others who consider the work somewhat dated. This does not mean that Griffin's theory is disproven or obsolete, but cutting-edge holistic treatment utilizes other components that he mentions only briefly. Griffin's intention doesn't seem to be a "Treat Yourself" manual, but rather a summary of the biological and political mechanisms that have created the cancer holocaust. In this mission World Without Cancer succeeds admirably.