American Cancer Society Repudiates Pittsburgh Cancer Clinic—Letter and Article
Various authors
Summary: Several reports detailing how the American Cancer Society fought against the Drosnes-Lazenby Naturopathic Cancer Clinic, a center in Pittsburgh providing a free alternative approach to cancer therapy. These documents demonstrate just how far back the conventional cancer-treatment industry has sought to protect its "turf" against competition in the healing arts. Various sources. Reprint 18E, 1950.
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American Journal of Proctology Article on Cancer and Organic Foods
By Dr. Donald C. Collins
Summary: A California MD records in a professional journal five separate cases in which patients with colorectal cancer recovered after changing to a diet of only organically grown foods. From the American Journal of Proctology, 1961.
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Can Cancer Be Cured?
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee examines a range of nutrition-based accounts for the cause and possible cure of cancer. In particular he quotes Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley: "The present status of the 'Cancer Problem' is...to decide between two quite opposite positions. First, a hypothetical and problematical view of a local, independent, unexplainable, autonomous decision of certain cells to take on and continue a destructive course, for which immense research has failed entirely to find any reason. Secondly, the simple and rational belief that a perverted nutrition, perhaps of longstanding, influences certain cells to depart from their normal mode of action and take on an abnormal activity, pursuing a malignant and destructive course which is naturally kept up by the continued metabolic disturbance. We accept this latter position in regard to many other diseases, why not in regard to cancer?" Lee also cites the intriguing conclusion of Dr. William J. Mayo, founder of the prestigious Mayo Clinic, who in 1914 expressed the opinion that cancer is caused "by some defect in the food supply of civilized man, including the possibility of too much cooking." 1950.
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Cancer and the Medical Research Business
By Malcolm Lawrence
Summary: This report exposing the corruption and lack of integrity in the cancer-research industry was published under a nom-de-plume (pen name) to protect the author's status as a medical researcher within the cancer research establishment. (See inside cover regarding this). It describes how natural therapies were never given a chance to demonstrate efficacy, while expensive and toxic chemotherapeutic agents glided right through the research community. Notably, the story of Dr. Andrew Ivy of the University of Illinois and his Krebiozen treatment is told in this historically important document. Special Reprint 5-62, 1962.
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Cancer: A Collagen Disease Secondary to a Nutritional Deficiency
By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: A Canadian medical doctor notes a strong relationship between vitamin C deficiency and cancer. From the Archives of Pediatrics, 1959.
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Cancer: A Nutritional Deficiency
By J. R. Davidson, MD
Summary: A Canadian physician reports on his fascinating animal and human research that lead him to conclude that nutritional deficiency is at the root of cancer development. "For some 45 years I have been interested in the study of cancer. I have come to the conclusion that cancer is due to deficient diet, and that, if steps are taken to see that everyone eats the proper food, the disease can be first controlled and finally eliminated." Discussing his experiments in detail, Dr. Davidson makes a strong case in defense of his hypothesis. Published by the Science Department of the University of Manitoba. Reprint 18, 1943.
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Cancer: Its Cause, Its Prevention, Its Cure
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: In this report from the late 1940s, Dr. Lee reviews some alternative treatments of cancer that had been shown to be effective. Citing specifically Dr. Davidson in Canada and Dr. Quigley of Omaha, Nebraska, Lee focuses on the likely nutritional causes of the disease. Circa 1949.
Cancer—Nutritional Factors Reference Card
By the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research
Summary: Some talking points on the role of various nutrients in the prevention and treatment of cancer, including vitamins A and C, iodine, chlorophyll, and specific factors in the vitamin B complex such as choline, inositol, and betaine. Complete with references. 1949.
Civilization and Cancer
Compiled by Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee summarizes numerous scientific studies indicating a lack or the extreme rarity of cancer among non-industrialized people still consuming their traditional diets. Subjects include various tribes of North American Indians, the Hunzas of the Karakorum region of Asia, and natives of Brazil and Ecuador. Lee also notes the high rate of thyroid cancer among populations with low iodine intake. From Natural Food and Farming, 1962.
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Discovery of the Anticancerous Properties of the “F” Vitamine
By Professor Humberto Aviles, Mexico
Summary: A sweeping report on the special properties of vitamin F, a complex of essential fatty acids (linolenic acid, linoleic acid, arachidonic adic) that was first identified in 1929 by Drs. Burr and Burr. Though medical and government authorities never recognized the F complex as a vitamin, the author of this paper, along with many other clinicians and particularly Dr. Royal Lee, conducted significant experiments over many decades to prove its presence and effect in the human body. (Today linolenic and linoleic acids are acknowledged by conventional science as the "essential fatty acids.") Here Professor Aviles, in discussing his own clinical application of vitamin F in relieving pain in cancer patients, presents an extensive review of peer-reviewed literature on vitamin F from around the world, including research in Germany, England, Russia, and the United States. In addition to numerous references, Aviles includes a fascinating time line of the research on fatty acids and cancer from 1924 to 1953. Special Reprint 12-53, 1953.
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Factors Favorable and Unfavorable to Cancer
By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: A brief article on the endocrine system and the relation of its malfunction to cancer. In particular, Dr. Lee discusses the importance of the thyroid gland in protecting against cancer. 1955.
Hope in Cancer Research
By U.S. Senator Charles W. Tobey
Summary: This excerpt from the congressional record shows just how far back alternative approaches to cancer have met opposition from the medical establishment, even when the evidence for the effectiveness of such approaches came from medical doctors themselves and was brought to public light by a U.S. senator. A scathing indictment of the monopolistic, profit-driven motive of organized medicine. Reprint 18-A, 1952.
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Insulin and Cancer
By Samuel M. Beale, Jr., MD
Summary: One of several articles by Dr. Beale in these archives on the positive effects of low-dose insulin therapy along with elimination of refined carbohydrates from the diet, in this case for the treatment of cancer. Several patient case histories are examined. This article reflects an early insight to the role that sugar plays in feeding cancer cells. From News Review, London, 1947.
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Insulin: Clinical Uses of Small Doses
By Samuel M. Beale, Jr., MD
Summary: A pioneering holistic physician from Massachusetts reports his observations on the effects of low-dose insulin therapy as a stimulus of regeneration for certain vascular and other tissues in the body. From the transactions of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological & Otological Society, 1937.
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The National Malnutrition
By D. T. Quigley, MD
Summary: The complete book published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. A well-known cancer specialist from Omaha writes about the disgraceful nutritional status of the American people and makes the case that it is malnutrition more than anything that is responsible for the the amazing rate of cancer in the United States. Decades ahead of his time, Dr. Quigley warns Americans about corn syrup and refined sugar, explaining that cancer cells thrive on such artificial and refined sweeteners. 1943.
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New Cancer Menace in Foods & The Terrible Truth about the Meat You Eat
By George McGrath
Summary: Two articles reprinted from 1958 editions of the National Police Gazette. While the national mainstream media of magazines, newspapers, radio, and TV parroted government proclamations that Americans were the best fed people on Earth, it was often left to the fringe media and publications to expose the most overlooked and underreported story of the twentieth century: the destruction of the food supply and health of the American people and civilized world. The Police Gazette, published from 1845 to 1982, was viewed as a sensational, tabloid-like monthly, but sometimes—between the police stories of murder and outlaws—the paper gave journalists a chance to publish important stories that were being ignored by the "respectable" press. Challenging conventional glorification of modern medicine and the American food supply, these two articles report on suppressed studies of man-made carcinogens routinely added to foods for the convenience of the manufacturer, including artificial colors, dyes, surfactants, humectants, anti-foaming agents, emulsifiers, dispersants, preservatives, paraffin waxes and petrolatum-like materials, chemicals added to smoked meats, plastic sausage-casings, and so on. (Also mentioned are toxic containers and linings used in canning and packaging as well as particularly dangerous estrogen-related hormones added to animal feeds that years later would be irrefutably linked to cancer in humans.) For many Americans, this was the first news that such substances were being added to their food, and the authors blast the FDA for failing to stop such practices in spite of decades of scientific warning. These two articles are historical documentation of how this land "of milk and honey" became a country of doctors, hospitals, drugs, and disease care. Reprint 18-C, 1958.
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Nutrition and Glands in Relation to Cancer
By F. E. Chidester, PhD
Summary: The interaction between the nutrients and the endocrine glands comes into sharp focus in this exceptional book, published in its entirety by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. Dr. Chidester wonderfully compiles and synergizes a wide scope of knowledge concerning cancer research and its relationship to nutrition, in particular with respect to the endocrine glands, discussing specific lesions caused by deficiencies of various vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals. His presentation on iodine alone is worth its weight in gold. While iodine and cancer research is coming into focus only now in the twenty-first century, Dr. Chidester enlightened his readers over six decades earlier. 1944.
