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Welcome to page twenty of “Why Choose Alternative Cancer Treatment?”. This series assembles a powerful sequence of incisive, outspoken (and often shocking) statements by cancer specialists, researchers and thinkers on subjects surrounding conventional and alternative cancer treatment. Numerous articles by medical researchers, personal advice & reports by former or current cancer patients, essays on avoidable suffering, the question why even very ill and suffering people - in spite of mainstream therapy failing to help them - may ridicule, reject, and attack medical alternatives in cancer treatment, and an introduction to the superior painless alternative to mammograms for women desirous of having their breasts screened, thermography, complete the picture...
Cancer Research & Animal Experimentation: an Unholy Union?
"Substances that cause cancer in one species will not cause the same kind of cancer in another species. Cancers and the carcinogens that cause them are
very species-specific." "The history of cancer research has been one of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades - and it simply hasn't worked in
humans." “The case of the huge 25-year screening program, undertaken by the prestigious U.S. National Cancer Institute, illustrates the kinds of dilemma possible: in
this program 40,000 plant species were tested for anti-tumor activity. Several of the plants proved effective and safe enough in the chosen animal model to justify clinical trials in humans. In the end, none of these drugs was
found useful for therapy because of too high toxicity or ineffectivity in humans. This means despite 25 years of intensive research and positive results in animal models, not a single antitumor drug emerged from this work. As a
consequence, the NCI now uses human cancer cell lines for the screening of cytotoxics.” “It is in fact hard to find a single, common solid neoplasm [cancer] where management and expectation of cure has been markedly affected by animal research.
Most human cancers differ from the artificially produced animal model....” "One might expect that these animals [onco-mice] would mimic human symptoms, not just the genetic mutations. In fact, that is usually the exception, not
the rule…the genetic wiring for growth control [cancer growth] in mice and humans is subtly different." Keith I Block MD director of the Institute for Integrative Cancer Care states, “…encouraging findings in mice often don’t translate into successful
cancer treatments in humans…as Folkman himself told The New York Times, extrapolating from mice to people is a big jump, with plenty of room for failure. Previous research, including a study done by Folkman himself offers two
cases in point. Using mice, Folkman’s lab had shown convincingly that agent TNP-470 could block angiogenesis. But humans proved another story. In a study of 33 men and women with metastatic kidney cancer, TNP-470 failed to
produce significant results…In another trial, 25 adults with metastatic cancer intravenously received anti-VEGF, an anti-angiogenic drug tested by Genentech. Only one patient experienced any response at all, a minor tumor
shrinkage that did not last.” “Attempts to obtain malignant tumors in monkeys failed, since primates turned out to be highly resistant to certain blastogenic agents, carcinogenic for
other animals.” “Spontaneous tumors in monkeys are very rare…Many researchers believe that monkeys have an inherent specific resistance to malignant tumors. The low
incidence of spontaneous tumors in monkeys has been associated with difficulties in experimental induction of tumors in these animals.” “Thus unlike humans…in monkeys lung tumors are extremely rare.” Beniashvili, Dzhemali Sh., Experimental Tumors In Monkeys, CRC Press 1994 p45 “…spontaneous tumors of the respiratory organs and mediastinum in monkeys, unlike in man, are extremely rare.” “…spontaneous tumors of skin and soft tissue in nonhuman primates are comparatively rare.” “For spontaneous skin tumors in monkeys, recurrences and metastases were not characteristic.” They are in humans. “The above findings show that at present there have been just a few successful cases of the induction of soft tissue tumors in monkeys.” "People do not understand how very far off this [clinical trials] is; these proteins are very difficult to make…and we are working very hard to make the
human versions...The mouse versions don't work in humans." “People are very complacent with their animal models. But this begs the question of whether there exists a good model of cancer.” “A key issue today…is the prediction of chemical carcinogenesis from animal data to man…The real answer in the final analysis will be human
experience.” With regards to studying carcinogens, Dr Phillip Shubik of the University of Nebraska stated in 1980, “Clearly, right now our animal models are totally and
absolutely inadequate to answer all the obvious questions before us.” In discussing the merit of experiments on animals for predicting cancer in humans the following exchange took place: “ Dr Coulston: …one of the great
fallacies in this calculation is that they are assuming that the mouse or rat or the hamster predicts for man, and we have no basis for this prediction…So it’s again a half-baked guess… Dr Shubick summed up the meeting by saying, “the chief objective here is to keep us all employed and to make sure we do interesting experiments so we can
keep coming back to nice places like this.” “For decades the clinical observation of an association between cigarette smoking and bronchial carcinoma was subject to unfounded doubt, suspicion, and
outright opposition, largely because the disease had no counterpart in mice. There seemed no end of statisticians craving for more documentation, all resulting in the fateful delay of needed legislative initiative.” A very pro animal experimentation article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute stated, “…[animal experiments] may not offer an uncomplicated
straightforward means of discovering preventable causes for the majority of human cancers, and at the very least it certainly does not seem likely that they can offer a reliable means of estimating quantitative human
hazards.” “...the lifetime feeding study in mice and rats appears to have less than a 50% probability of finding known human carcinogens... we would have been better
off to toss a coin.” In a provivisection article: “Numerical assessments of human risk, even if based on good animal data, seems well beyond the scope of the scientifically
possible…The dose-response models now used in numerical extrapolation are quite far removed from biology…In the present state of the art, making quantitative assessments of human risk from animal experiments, has little
scientific merit. Valid extrapolations would be possible only on the basis of mathematical models grounded in biological reality and carefully tested against empirical data…” “Primary rodent cells are efficiently converted into tumorigenic cells by the coexpression of cooperating oncogenes. However, similar experiments with human
cells have consistently failed to yield tumorigenic transformations, indicating a fundamental difference in the biology of human and rodent cells.”
Bayer ceased their studies of MMPIs for cancer treatment after failure in human patients. Bayer's director of oncology research, Dr. Mel Sorensen said: 'the
finding was very surprising to us and contrary to preclinical [animal] data which confirmed the drug inhibited tumors in rodents.’ “The use of animals in cancer research has been attacked as unnecessary cruelty to animals, and defended as absolutely essential for research
progress....From a scientific standpoint, what is pertinent is that what are called 'animal model systems' in cancer research have been a total failure....The moral is that animal model systems not only kill animals, they also
kill humans. There is no good factual evidence to show that the use of animals in cancer research has led to the prevention or cure of a single human cancer.” "It is not possible to apply to the human species, experimental information derived from inducing cancer in animals." …the disease we know as "cancer" is actually an umbrella term for about 200 diseases that afflict humans exclusively. In other words, these 200
diseases are distinctly human cancers. Some of these cancers can be seen in other animals, but the specific characteristics of these animal cancers differ greatly from that in human cancer. Most nonhuman cancers arise in the
bone, connective tissue or muscle. In contrast, most human cancers arise in living membranes. "The fact that experiments failed to demonstrate any carcinogenic activity in animals does not exclude the possibility of a carcinogenic effect in
man." "It is time to end cancer research on animals because it is not related to humans." "The characteristic effects in leukemia were detected solely as a result of clinical observation. The various leukemias in the mouse and rat were
relatively refractory to the influence of urethane, and the remarkable effect in the human might have eluded discovery if attention had been directed to the animal alone. That illustrates the hazards of such work." "The drugs Prednisone and Vincristine are often hailed as 'curing' childhood leukemia. Both drugs were rejected by the US National Cancer Institute as
'useless' on the basis of animal tests. Prednisone was developed as a result of clinical observation of the effects of adrenal extract. Vincristine is an alkaloid of 'Vincra Rosea', a type of periwinkle plant, and extracts of
periwinkle were used in the Roman Empire to 'dry tumors' (Pliny). They were eventually brought to clinical trials. The children cured of leukemia owe their lives to clinical observations and trials - and not to the animal
'model'." "Sir, In arguing for the health benefits of Enzogenol, an antioxidant supplement, Kelvin Duncan appears to dismiss the value of well conducted clinical
trials on humans as an expensive standard of proof. Instead he seems to be willing to extrapolate the results of animal experiments directly to humans and to generalise from his own subjective experience with Ezogenol. All this
from the Dean of Science at Canterbury University" “[S]mall differences between man and [dogs] have littered medical history with catastrophes when discoveries in dogs have been applied to man. For example:
Most of us have come to grips with the idea that smoking causes cancer, at least in man. Dogs are however extremely resistant to the cancer causing effects of cigarette smoke. The tobacco companies were able to hide behind
science's inability to reproduce the obvious in dogs for many, many years and used such research to ‘prove’ that smoking was not unhealthy.
The fact that there are acknowledgements that the end of cancer is nowhere in sight is further evidence of the fraud and futility of vivisection.” Animal experiments guarantees full employment, for once begun, a career in animal experiments is assured. It is as good as a pension... What is science
today? A narrow and hard specialization for profit, exploitation and domination. “Animal research does
not work, as every species of animal is a different biomechanical and biochemical entity. Non-human animals are different not only from humans, but also from each other: anatomically, physiologically, immunologically,
genetically and histologically. It is estimated that in the United States of America 33% of people will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. The incidence of cancer in USA has gone
up 18 percent and the death rate 7 percent since President Nixon declared the "war on cancer" in 1971. After spending billions of dollars and decades of massive effort not only has cancer not been stopped but also its
incidence has increased. "During the past fifty years scientists experimenting with thousands of animals have found 700 ways of causing cancer. But they had not discovered one way
of curing the disease." "My overall assessment is that the national cancer programme must be judged a qualified failure." "The five year cancer survival statistics of the American Cancer Society are very misleading. They now count things that are not cancer, and because we
are able to diagnose at an earlier stage of the disease, patients falsely appear to live longer. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a failure. More people over 30 are dying from cancer than ever before...
More women with mild or benign diseases are being included in statistics and reported as being 'cured'. When government officials point to survival figures and say they are winning the war against cancer they are using those
survival rates improperly." "For thirty-five years U.S. scientists labouring in the National Cancer Institute's screening programme have injected more than 400,000 chemicals into
leukaemic mice hoping to find chemotherapies that would help solve the riddles of cancer... We've been using the wrong system as the screening device." “Due to the use of animals, cancer research has been a failure.” “Cancer research on laboratory animals is prolific yet does not produce valid or useful results. It is generally accepted that a large proportion of cancers
are preventable, yet funding for research into prevention is disproportionate. Meanwhile despite the emphasis on research for treatment, research funds and facilities are not made available for those who wish to study natural
or holistic therapies.” "Almost all biomedical research being conducted today, including cancer research, is based on the animal model of human disease. Predictably the absurd
concept that spontaneous diseases can be recreated in the laboratory and that human medicine can be based on veterinary medicine has brought us increases in both the incidences and death rates in practically all diseases,
including cancer." "Screening of over half a million compounds as anti-cancer agents on laboratory animals between 1970-85, only 80 compounds moved into clinical trials on
humans. Of these only 24 had any anti-cancer activity and only 12 appeared to have a "substantial clinical role". But these so-called "new" active agents were not so new: they are analogues of
chemotherapeutic agents already known to work in humans." "Despite the general recognition that 85 per cent of all cancers is caused by environmental influences, less than 10 percent of the (U.S.) National Cancer
Institute budget is given to environmental causes. And despite the recognition that the majority of environmental causes are linked to nutrition, less than one per cent of the NCI budget is devoted to nutrition studies. And
even that small amount had to be forced on the Institute by a special amendment of the National Cancer Act in 1974." "According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, approximately 80% of all cancers are preventable." "A shift in research emphasis from research on treatment to research on prevention is necessary if substantial progress against cancer is to be
forthcoming". "Despite the present emphasis on research of treatment rather than prevention holistic cancer treatment is never given a fair go anywhere in the Western
world. There is no level playing field on which holistic health practitioners can work on equal terms with the Cancer Establishment. Well-documented systems offering revolutionary possibilities of cure have been offered to the
world's Cancer Establishment and rejected without a fair trial." "Natural Therapies are not scientifically proven to give better results than conventional treatment. Those controlling research funds and facilities give
nothing to natural therapists to prove their case. In rare cases that natural remedies have been investigated by conventional medical institutions, it was done in such a way that a negative outcome was guaranteed." “Future research should be restricted to valid methods such as epidemiology. To help humans we need to study the cancers that occur in humans not in other
animals in laboratory conditions. One of the most natural ways of studying cancer in humans is that of observation. Observing what occurs spontaneously in as great a number of human models as possible scattered throughout the
world. Epidemiology includes this kind of observation. This knowledge can enable preventative measures to be taken against cancers. “Study should be made of cancer being caused by animal research.” “The contents of many laboratories represent a bizarre cocktail of viruses, biological reagents, chemicals, cancer agents and different species of animal. “The use of animals in toxicological testing allows chemicals to be released or to remain on the market even though they may cause cancer in humans. “Cancer caused by vivisection-based farming. "Of the 143 drugs and pesticides identified as likely to leave residues in raw meat and poultry, forty-two are known to cause or are suspected of causing
cancer; twenty of causing birth defects and six of causing mutations." "Cancer Prevention "Responsible for causing leukemia and fatal aplastic anaemia in human beings. Damage not predicted by animal experiments." "Extensive experiments on dogs failed to show evidence of injury or disease to the canine species." “Tagamet (Cimetidine) "Despite there being no signs of stomach cancer in animals on which the drug was tested, there could be an increased risk of stomach cancer on the human
patients to whom it is prescribed." "Diethylstilbestrol, tested without adverse effects on animals for years, caused cancer in girls whose mothers had been prescribed the drug in pregnancy.
Hundreds of women developed vaginal cancer because their mothers were given DES in pregnancy." (“In the 1960s two and a half million New Zealanders were vaccinated with contaminated monkey-based polio vaccine.”): "It cannot be ruled out that two million New Zealanders could not be suffering in thirty years' time from cancerous brain tumours as a result of the
vaccinations." “A recent study by Dr Janet Butel published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, USA, suggests that the SV40 cancer causing virus which
contaminated the polio vaccine are being passed from those given the contaminated vaccine to their children. "I've a feeling that the virus might be implicated in more, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and prostate cancer", he said. "From a scientific standpoint, what is pertinent that what are called 'animal model systems' in cancer research have been a total failure... Not a single
essential new drug for the treatment of human cancer was first picked up by an animal model system... Thus the tens of millions of animals killed in the mass screening for new cancer drugs died in vain... the results of animal
model systems for drugs or other modalities have done nothing but confuse and mislead the cancer researchers who have tried to extrapolate from mice to man. Moreover, when they have been used to guide clinical research they
have sent investigators on one long and costly wild goose chase after another. Thus, scientifically speaking, the animal studies are a fraud. Privately, they [vivisectors] will concede that animal models don't work, but they
shrug this off because nothing works. Two high-powered promoters were pushing a study which used a particular drug called '5-FU'. They presented animal data to support their claims for using this drug on human breast cancer. In
our studies which included 5-FU, the doctors had unanimously decided to drop it because there was no sign of benefit but very serious toxicity... My efforts to head off the poisoning of hundreds of women with breast cancer,
with a dangerous drug that could destroy their host defence systems failed. The National Cancer Institute went right ahead with its plan to fund this deadly study and others like it. Not a few women with breast cancer have paid
with their lives for this stupidity... animal model systems not only kill animals, they also kill humans." "Cancer research is the flagship of vivisection, using a quarter of a million animals, in the UK alone, each year." "Between 1990 and 1997, USDA registered research laboratories reported killing at least 12,892,885 dogs, cats, primates, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, farm animals, bears, armadillos, squirrels, wild rodents, and other "covered" species. This figure does not include hundreds of millions of rats, mice, frogs, or birds, nor does it include any animals killed at non-USDA registered experimentation labs." Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people
who support them. "For over two hundred years the inmates of the vivisection laboratories have tormented to death hundreds of millions of animals. Over 800 ways of inducing
tumours in animals have been found, not one of which is remotely related to a cancer which has developed spontaneously in a human. Tumours are implanted under the skin, and then observed as the growth takes over the body,
animals are radiated, limbs become gangrenous and fall off, force feeding large amounts of toxic substances causes vomiting and fits - until death intervenes... Animal-based 'cancer research' fund-raisers include: Cancer
Research UK (formerly The Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign), The Leukaemia Research Fund, Tenovus Cancer Research, The Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign, Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust,
Institute of Cancer Research, World Cancer Research Fund. If you support animal-based 'cancer research' you are supporting the biggest fraud, medical or otherwise, in history, and the cruel and senseless torture and killing of
your fellow beings; both human and animal." "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." "Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever
they require it." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat. And the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals the way we now look upon
the murder of men." "Animals are my friends...I don't eat my friends." Who does vivisection? Companies which test on animals from www.caringconsumer.com/searchcompany.html COMPANIES THAT DO TEST ON ANIMALSWhy are these companies included on the ‘Do Test’ list?The following companies manufacture products that ARE tested on animals. Those marked with a check (*) are currently observing a moratorium on (i.e., current
suspension of) animal testing. Please encourage them to announce a permanent ban. Listed in parentheses are examples of products manufactured by either the company listed or, if applicable, its parent company. Companies on this
list may manufacture individual lines of products without animal testing (e.g., Clairol claims that its Herbal Essences lines are not animal tested). They have not, however, eliminated animal testing on their entire line of
cosmetics and household products.
More company listingsadapted from www.health.org.nz/cover.html A free online book Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer was written in response to the booklet Animal Research Saves Lives distributed in November 1990 by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture (MAF). “MAF's co-producers of this calculated advertising stunt that is aimed at destroying the growing anti-vivisection movement in this country include: The Cancer Society of New Zealand, the N.Z. Heart Foundation, the Medical Research Council of New Zealand, and the Agricultural Chemical and Animal Remedies Manufacturers Association of N.Z. (AGCARM).” “AGCARM is New Zealand's arm of the vivisection industry. The powerful multinational conglomerate whose individual names occur repeatedly throughout this work. Its full membership is listed hereunder.“ “Without exception the creators of [Animal Research Saves Lives] are linked by a single common denominator, the absolute necessity of maintaining vivisection, euphemistically known as "animal research", acceptable to, unopposed and unchallenged by the public. For vivisection is the key to their profits.” MEMBERSHIP OF AGCARM (as at August 1992)
Addendum: Companion-Animal Food Manufacturers
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