Closing the Books on Laetrile

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Over the past few years we have devoted a lot of attention to Laetrile.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 By 1978 it had achieved a certain folk status, celebrated as a kind of anti-establishment natural remedy being suppressed by a venal conspiracy between pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians. According to the folklore, the conspirators were ignoring evidence of Laetrile's effectiveness and attempting to promote their own more orthodox (and more toxic) forms of cancer chemotherapy.There have never been any facts to support this folklore, but that didn't prevent tens of thousands of American cancer victims from seeking treatment with Laetrile — often obtaining it at . . .

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