Concern over cancer clinic (From Warrington Guardian)
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Concern over Burzynski Clinic
9:19am Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Letters
FOLLOWING recent articles in the Warrington Guardian about Nic Kinley’s fundraising campaign for cancer treatment, I wish to voice my concerns about the clinic involved.
I realise that the article was written in support of Nic’s fundraising campaign.
I also understand that Nic and her family are in a very difficult and vulnerable position and I don’t wish to judge their decisions.
However, the issues with the Burzynski Clinic are so serious that I believe it was misleading and potentially harmful to readers to present it in such a favourable light.
JOSEPHINE JONES Warrington
Josephine Jones says...
12:32pm Thu 2 Feb 12
"Dr Burzynski’s ‘clinical trials’ (which cost patients hundreds of thousands of pounds), have been ongoing for over thirty years without any publication of reliable evidence that the ‘antineoplastonsâ€
™ treatment works. Although he doesn’t market them as such, antineoplastons are effectively by-products of the metabolism of a known drug (sodium phenylbutyrate). Dr Burzynski also prescribes other drugs unconventionally and expensively, has been found guilty of fraud, accuses the authorities and critics of acting illegally in order to suppress him and may soon have his medical licence revoked following imminent proceedings involving the Texas Medical Board.
Details of further legal problems emerged last week - when it was reported that Dr Burzynski and his companies are being sued by an elderly lady seeking damages for negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, deceptive trade and conspiracy. She says the defendants failed to disclose that her treatment was part of a clinical trial and charged her $500 per pill for drugs she could buy elsewhere for a fraction of that price.
I believe it was irresponsible of the Warrington Guardian to promote such a clinic."