Dr. Moran has used the same old argument that has been floated for
years: if it was cured, it cannot have been cancer, but must have been
misdiagnosed. He goes a little further, implying that in the 1950s the
technology and knowledge was such that the doctors then might not have
recognized cancer, they were that backwards.
Cancer in the United States was an enormous problem in the 1950s,
though not as pervasive as it is today. One in four people got cancer
sometime in their lifetimes. Huge cancer research centers had the most
sophisticated equipment for diagnosing and treating the disease, including
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center in New York City. Gerson
did not ever, nor does the Institute today, depend on his own
laboratories, biopsies or diagnoses for determination of the presence of
cancer, but relied on tests performed by other, often hostile, physicians
and laboratories. This is specifically due to a long history of
accusations like Dr. Moran’s of fraudulent or mistaken diagnoses. Many of
his patients had been through years of cancer treatment, mostly radiation
and surgery at the time, before he saw them.
Now, if the disease he was treating really was NOT cancer, then these
poor patients had been hoodwinked, burned and mutilated, often nearly to
death, by surgeons and radiologists pretending that they had cancer, or
perhaps doing repeated draconian treatments for the wrong disease over the
course of many years. Gerson published his monograph, A Cancer Therapy:
Results of 50 Cases, including X-rays, medical records and photographs of
some of his best cases. If these patients were left in that condition by
surgeons who either ignorantly thought they had cancer or were
deliberately misleading them, that is a worse indictment of the oncology
community than it is of Gerson. Might it still be occurring?
As far as misdiagnosis, cancer was a well-known disease 50 years
before Gerson began treating it, though not as widespread as it is today.
There is no way that spreading melanoma can be mistaken for a something
else. The “misdiagnosis” accusation started when Gerson began curing
tuberculosis in the 1920s, because “everyone knew” that tuberculosis was
incurable. Thus, if he cured it, it must not have been tuberculosis! He
was accused of retouching X-rays (a total impossibility, as any
radiologist knows) to make it look like lung tuberculosis had been cured!
It would be interesting to know if all so-called misdiagnosed cases were
sent to Gerson to be cured, or if the epidemic of misdiagnosis during
Gerson’s lifetime extended itself throughout the oncology community.
Dr. Moran insults his fellow physicians when he implies that the
massive cancer industry in the United States was either lying or was so
sloppy as to misdiagnose the majority of their cancer cases, mistakenly
sending millions of patients to expensive, lengthy and painful treatment
for the wrong disease.
And why would the patients have come to Dr. Gerson? After all, if
they didn’t have cancer in the first place, and the conventional treatment
they were receiving was apparently relieving their disease, they would
have stuck to it. That was NOT the case. Patients came to Gerson only
after conventional treatment had failed, often repeatedly, to stop the
progress of what they were told was cancer, confirmed by biopsies, X-rays,
tests and their oncologists. Almost all Gerson’s patients came to him in
terminal condition, having suffered from years of treatment for their
ostensible cancer. Many of these patients are still alive today, over 50
years later, including melanoma, pancreatic and liver cancer recoveries.
As far as the “pharmaceutical conspiracy” that Dr. Moran dismisses so
lightly, it may not be so in the UK or Australia, but in the US, the
corruption and influence the pharmaceutical industry has over medical
journals has gotten so pervasive and massive that it became a subject of
complaint not just by paranoid alternative practitioners, but by Dr.
Marcia Angell, the departing Executive Editor of the New England Journal
of Medicine, who said in her farewell editorial that "large-scale
breaching of the boundaries between academic and for-profit industry" is
taking place. Dr. Angell is the epitome of the establishment physician.
Drug companies may not be in direct collusion, but they are all pursuing
the same goal, maximizing profits at any cost, including corruption of
government, the democratic process, regulatory agencies, research
laboratories, researchers and medical journals.
References:
Angell, M. “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?”, New England Journal of
Medicine, Vol. 342, No. 20, May 18, 2000
Gerson, M. “A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases”, Fifth Edition,
The Gerson Institute, San Diego, CA, 1990.
Competing interests:
I am Dr. Gerson's grandson, and the author of Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless.
Rapid Response:
Re: Re: Re: Who needs to be pressured?
Dr. Moran has used the same old argument that has been floated for
years: if it was cured, it cannot have been cancer, but must have been
misdiagnosed. He goes a little further, implying that in the 1950s the
technology and knowledge was such that the doctors then might not have
recognized cancer, they were that backwards.
Cancer in the United States was an enormous problem in the 1950s,
though not as pervasive as it is today. One in four people got cancer
sometime in their lifetimes. Huge cancer research centers had the most
sophisticated equipment for diagnosing and treating the disease, including
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center in New York City. Gerson
did not ever, nor does the Institute today, depend on his own
laboratories, biopsies or diagnoses for determination of the presence of
cancer, but relied on tests performed by other, often hostile, physicians
and laboratories. This is specifically due to a long history of
accusations like Dr. Moran’s of fraudulent or mistaken diagnoses. Many of
his patients had been through years of cancer treatment, mostly radiation
and surgery at the time, before he saw them.
Now, if the disease he was treating really was NOT cancer, then these
poor patients had been hoodwinked, burned and mutilated, often nearly to
death, by surgeons and radiologists pretending that they had cancer, or
perhaps doing repeated draconian treatments for the wrong disease over the
course of many years. Gerson published his monograph, A Cancer Therapy:
Results of 50 Cases, including X-rays, medical records and photographs of
some of his best cases. If these patients were left in that condition by
surgeons who either ignorantly thought they had cancer or were
deliberately misleading them, that is a worse indictment of the oncology
community than it is of Gerson. Might it still be occurring?
As far as misdiagnosis, cancer was a well-known disease 50 years
before Gerson began treating it, though not as widespread as it is today.
There is no way that spreading melanoma can be mistaken for a something
else. The “misdiagnosis” accusation started when Gerson began curing
tuberculosis in the 1920s, because “everyone knew” that tuberculosis was
incurable. Thus, if he cured it, it must not have been tuberculosis! He
was accused of retouching X-rays (a total impossibility, as any
radiologist knows) to make it look like lung tuberculosis had been cured!
It would be interesting to know if all so-called misdiagnosed cases were
sent to Gerson to be cured, or if the epidemic of misdiagnosis during
Gerson’s lifetime extended itself throughout the oncology community.
Dr. Moran insults his fellow physicians when he implies that the
massive cancer industry in the United States was either lying or was so
sloppy as to misdiagnose the majority of their cancer cases, mistakenly
sending millions of patients to expensive, lengthy and painful treatment
for the wrong disease.
And why would the patients have come to Dr. Gerson? After all, if
they didn’t have cancer in the first place, and the conventional treatment
they were receiving was apparently relieving their disease, they would
have stuck to it. That was NOT the case. Patients came to Gerson only
after conventional treatment had failed, often repeatedly, to stop the
progress of what they were told was cancer, confirmed by biopsies, X-rays,
tests and their oncologists. Almost all Gerson’s patients came to him in
terminal condition, having suffered from years of treatment for their
ostensible cancer. Many of these patients are still alive today, over 50
years later, including melanoma, pancreatic and liver cancer recoveries.
As far as the “pharmaceutical conspiracy” that Dr. Moran dismisses so
lightly, it may not be so in the UK or Australia, but in the US, the
corruption and influence the pharmaceutical industry has over medical
journals has gotten so pervasive and massive that it became a subject of
complaint not just by paranoid alternative practitioners, but by Dr.
Marcia Angell, the departing Executive Editor of the New England Journal
of Medicine, who said in her farewell editorial that "large-scale
breaching of the boundaries between academic and for-profit industry" is
taking place. Dr. Angell is the epitome of the establishment physician.
Drug companies may not be in direct collusion, but they are all pursuing
the same goal, maximizing profits at any cost, including corruption of
government, the democratic process, regulatory agencies, research
laboratories, researchers and medical journals.
References:
Angell, M. “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?”, New England Journal of
Medicine, Vol. 342, No. 20, May 18, 2000
Gerson, M. “A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases”, Fifth Edition,
The Gerson Institute, San Diego, CA, 1990.
Competing interests:
I am Dr. Gerson's grandson, and the author of Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless.
Competing interests: No competing interests