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A patient you won't hear about from Stanislaw Burzynski or his apologists

Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 98 days ago
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It's been a while since I mentioned Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the Houston doctor who has somehow managed over the last thirty-plus years to treat cancer patients with something he calls "antineoplastons." Although there was a tiny about of prior plausibility behind the concept--albeit only very tiny--back in the 1980s, the relentless drip, drip, drip of negative evidence, coupled with Burzynski's failure to advance his therapy beyond phase I and II preliminary trials (he has a phase III trial that remains, after a considerable period of time, unopened) or to publish any compelling evidence that... (original story)