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Pete Cohen films Pat and Steve Clarkson

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Pat Clarkson, and I come from Danville, California, which is near San Francisco, and I have multiple myeloma; which is not a common cancer
About 20,000 people in the United States have the disease, and about 10,000 die every year, and 10,000 get the disease
So it’s a relatively small number of folks,that have it
So it’s not well
It’s not as well researched as some of the other cancers, um, but we’re hoping that the, um, Burzynski Clinic can help me

There’s not much hope for me
I, I have probably, a, uh, prognosis of a couple, couple years
Maybe a year or two to live, um, without, um, without I, I, an alternative method of treatment, and that’s why
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If I could say this a little differently
The conventional medicine, or what we would call conventional medicine, which is, you know, chemotherapy, radiation, uh, surgery; which is not possible with, uh, multiple myeloma because there is no, no large tumor that can be surgically removed, uh, the doctors have told us basically there is no cure, and that, and I, I say doctors; this is our local oncologist, um, and the head of oncology at, um, University of California, San Francisco; which is a very well respected school, uh, hospital, that there is no, uh, no reasonable possibility of a cure
Um, by contrast, uh, Dr. Burzynski, we have found out, has, uh, cured several people with myeloma, and he’s cured many other people with different kinds of cancer
The problem is, uh, that the FDA in its wisdom, will not allow us to, uh, be treated with the, uh, antineoplastons that are the backbone of the Burzynski therapy
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Well they’ve told us that they don’t have evidence that it’s, um, that it’s an effective treatment
Uh, that, they don’t have evidence that it’s not, non-toxic; which in fact, uh, is incorrect because the FDA does have evidence that it’s non-toxic
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Through the Senator’s office at the, the FDA is saying that they, they don’t know for sure that it’s not toxic; that’s not true, uh, and they don’t know that it will cure the disease, and therefor they can’t approve it
We’re willing
Pat’s willing to take the odds of a treatment, that is not 100% guaranteed, and let’s face it, most of the treatments that are approved by the FDA, are toxic, and are not guaranteed
So we don’t really understand, uh, why they have an issue with it, except that, uh, there’s an awful lot of money involved
Um, one of the peculiarities of the FDA, we understand they’re, by law, required to get much of their funding from the very companies that they’re supposed to be supervising

As, as I understand, uh, the Constitution, there is no basis in the Constitution for the Federal Government to be telling, an American, who they can use for a doctor or what drugs that they can use for, uh, their, their illness
Yet, over the years this, uh, this power has grown and been accepted at the FDA, and now it’s a, uh, uh, it’s, it’s out of control
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We have asked the FDA what is different about my case
Why I don’t get an exemption
We don’t have a response yet to that, to that question
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While doctors are generally very bright; they have to be to get through medical school, but they don’t have any training in critical, critical thinking, and most of them that I run into are not particularly good critical thinkers
The world they live in is to memorize a set of symptoms, then to look up or remember what those symptoms suggest in terms of a disease, and then remember or look up what the treatment is

So, here we have, um, uh, Dr. Burzynski, who is also a Ph.D biochemist, which is a, a interesting and, and very useful, uh, combination, who discovered that, um, in people who have cancer, they generally don’t have, or they have very reduced levels of what he now calls, uh, antineoplastons, and neoplaston is simply the medical jargon for cancer; so it’s anti-cancer, in effect, um, he discover the people who, uh, don’t have cancer, do have, high levels of this, and determined from research that these are controlled by, um, by the genes, and it’s part of the body’s immune system, in effect
We all produce cancer cells everyday of our lives
Like we produce bac, or have bacteria in our gi, digestive tract, that is controlled, by certain genes
In this case, um, he discovered that by, uh, by injecting, uh, or infusing, uh, these, they’re called peptides, peptide, that the patient could be helped
How, how innocuous, or how anti-toxic, can you have
It’s a, it’s a substance th, the body itself produces, unless the genes have shut down
Which is the case in, uh, some, in most, or at least half I guess, of multiple myeloma cases
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My, my message would be that they don’t have the right to tell me to hold a, a life or a death, um, decision
They, they don’t have the right to tell me that, um, I can’t have treatment that I seek, or I will die
I don’t think they have that right to do that
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Treatment is available
Uh, it is our choice
We are free Americans
We’re well informed
Uh, well educated
It should be our choice, and the Federal government in any, in any form should not have the authority to interfere with that
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Uh, nothing’s guaranteed in this world, um, but we’ve got, um, we’ve got some confidence in this clinic and in this treatment
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Pat & Steve Clarkson
January 27, 2012
Houston, Texas
6:25
2/3/2012
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Pete Cohen talks with Doug Olson

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My name is Doug Olson
I’m from Nebraska
Western Nebraska
And, uh, my mother has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
So, we, uh, middle of November, now this is first of, first of the year, eh, but in the middle of November her weight, she was losing weight, you know
She was suffering from indigestion and, and stomach pain, and so we started to have her checked, uh, for problems with her stomach for ulcers and that kind of thing, and all that proved negative, and they put her on an ulcer medicine anyway, thinking that maybe that would solve the inflammation in her stomach, and, uh, then we decided that we (?) better see another physician, and so we did that, and they then ultra sounded and then CAT scanned and found that she had tumors in her pancreas and in her liver
Uh, many years ago, back in, in the late 70’s, my parents had been involved with, with the cancer, uh, subject in regards to my father’s sister, and then his cousin
He started researching cancer and cancer treatments when his sister passed away, and then, uh, they got in contact with a doctor in Orden, Nebraska, that treated cancer patients with Laetrile, and he also did other, not so ordinary things
He did duculation therapy
Uh, a number of things that were really treatments for the disease rather than just treatments for the symptoms, and, uh, during that time, dad testified at the state legislature; they were trying to work against Dr. Miller’s license
This was the Dr. Miller in Orden, and, uh, so dad testified on, on his behalf
Uh, dad’s cousin was, uh, a patient of his, and she had a brain tumor the size of a lemon, and Dr. Miller put her on, uh, Laetrile treatments on a, on a special diet and some things, uh
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And this was what, in the 70’s ?
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This was back in the, probably the late 70’s, and, so, when they
Well they cured her
She had been sent home from the Mayo Clinic
Given 3 to 6 months to live, and, uh, they had, uh, burned with radiation and cobalt I believe is what they were treating her with at that time
Uh, they burned the, uh, nerves in her eyes so that her eyes crossed
Uh, they sent her home to die
They, uh
She was in a wheelchair
She was a young woman and she had a young child
Wasn’t able to hold that child, and so when my dad saw her, met her, she was in that condition
She was it, in the last 6 months of her life
Gave her a book about, uh, the subject, and told her about Dr. Miller, and her family
She then went to Dr. Miller to see if there was any help for her, and he, and he immediately put her on Laetrile treatment then and, and, uh, the interesting thing about it, looking at his doctor’s protocol; because I’ve come across his protocol, uh, Dr. Miller was also giving his patients antineoplastons, and
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Yeah, because we’ve got this thing here that you gave me
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Mhmm
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Just explain to me what this is
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This was his physician’s protocol, to list, uh, the different medicines a person should, should be on
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If they had cancer
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Uh, if they had cancer, and so, uh, this was given to another friend of ours, a friend of the family, uh, the folks that rented one of our properties, uh, the woman got a, a tumor as well, and this was given to her as part of the regimen she should follow, and she was given Laetrile injections, and then as soon as the injections, uh, were over they went then to pills as the size of the dosage went down, and when you got to pills you got to go home
So, uh, I remember speaking to her at the time
I had a
I was in high school, and I had a summer job with her husband, who was the county engineer
So, uh, we saw them all the time, and she told us, uh, the circumstances when, when she was allowed to come home
She was feeling strong
She said: “I haven’t felt better”
As a part of the diet and the things that, that they had her doing
She said she felt better than she had in many years
So she and her daughter, started a business in town in order to pay for the treatments, and, uh, she recovered
The tumor continued to shrink and shrink until it was nothing
Uh, what had been listed as inoperable, uh, after it shrunk halfway they decided, well maybe we can operate on you
Uh, we think it’s operable now
She said: “Why would I let you operate when what I’m doing is working” ?
But, uh, she is alive yet today and in her mid-80’s and, uh, so, uh, when it came to my mother’s illness, we contacted her, and asked her how she’s doing, and she’s sent this protocol she’s been keeping all these years
Uh, as a result of my parents knowing Dr. Miller back when he was alive
He is, he has passed away, uh, 7 maybe years ago, and, uh, many years ago when they were taking chelation therapy from him, he had given my mother, uh, a flyer on Dr. Burzynski, and, uh, said if anything ever happens to you after I’m gone, this is the man to contact, and so we’ve had that flyer in a file for many years at my parents house, and so when mom got sick she immediately began digging that out and found
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So your mom immediately started thinking, well I need to find that leaflet
That’s what we were told to do
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Yes
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And did, and did she go and speak to an oncologist ?
Did she say that she wanted to come here, or ?
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We had a local physician, who was not an oncologist, that had, that was the 2nd physician we, we consulted, that did the ultrasound and the CAT scan for her and, and they knew that she had tumors, and no we did not go to an on, oncologist from there
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Why ?
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because we knew that we did not want to take their treatments, uh, so we immediately contacted the clinic here in, in Houston, Texas, and, uh, we had to wait on, uh, certain things to be completed
CAT scans
Different things had to be done, and, and information had to be sent down here and examined, and then, uh, after a period of maybe 2 weeks, hassling with information, we were told that, yes, uh, we, they would accept her as a patient, and we were getting in towards the holidays at that time
Would we like to wait until the holidays were over, because Christmas
You know, there would be 5 days off for Christmas, uh, over a weekend and 5 days off for New Years over a weekend, and we would be down here in Houston over those times, but we elected to come anyway because we could get the treatment started right away
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Mhmm
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rather than to wait another month before starting treatments, and, uh, so they, uh, immediately put, put her on antineoplastons and, uh, they sent away the tissue samples to Arizona to have a CARIS test done, and determine what medications would be
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So did you have those results come back ?
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Yes, those results came back quicker than what we expected
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And wh, what did they show ?
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Well they, they show a, a list of treatments that are effective, and against it, and then a list of treatments actually that encourage it’s growth
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So you end up with a list of, uh, approximately 7 on each side
7 good
7 bad
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And these are all different cancer drugs
So what they’re looking at is all
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Yes
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is all the different cancer drugs, and which ones
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And whether we’ve got a, a thousand or 2 thousand different drugs that person might try, and, uh, so
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So the (?) for how to, to try a few of these chemotherapies, but in very small doses
Is that right ?
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There’s 2, 2 chemotherapies
One is an, is an oral chemotherapy that is, uh, quite mild in its side effects, and then, uh, there’s another much stronger one that was, uh, also one of th, the top 2, and, uh, the side effects for it are more varied and more violent, uh, if you will, and, uh, my mother’s had one treatment of that so far, and the treat, the side effects
She did, is suffering from side effects from that particular
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Yeah
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It’s Oxaliplatin, and, uh, some people have very violent side effects but she’s thankfully not had any violent side effects
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So why didn’t you go down the conventional road of having high-dose chemotherapy ?
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Well, when you research the, uh, success rate, with pancreatic cancer, going the normal way, uh, or the normal, uh, road, the success rate is very, very small, and so you’re just guaranteeing, in my opinion, if, if the success rate is 5% or under, uh, you’re introducing yourself to a, a road to death, that’s very unpleasant
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Yeah
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You know, you just want to go home and make yourself very comfortable on painkillers and, and enjoy the rest of your life, uh, if that’s the, if that’s the road you’re planning to take
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Uh, that was our opinion, and so
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What do you think about all the resistance then of, of Dr. Burzynski and all of the kind of, uh, ?
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We have
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(?) people just calling him a
What’s the word ?
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Charlatan
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Charlatan
Yeah
Fraud
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Yes, we, uh, we have seen course, of course these things through our, our life
Dr. Miller
The whole Laetrile treatment thing was something that was, uh, thrown out
You know, it’s pretty well suppressed now
You can go to Mexico and get those treatments
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Why do you think they were, pushed aside ?
This Laetrile
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It’s
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What is Laetrile ?
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Well Laetrile is a naturally occurring, uh, substance that you find in some of our foods
It’s, they call it B17 although, vitamin B17, although there’s some discussion as to whether it’s really a vitamin
Another name for it is Amygdalin
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Amygdalin
Yeah
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Uh, it’s found in peach pits and apricot pits in high levels but there’s a number of other foods that you find it in
Uh, it, it,
I’m not sure, whether this is 100% accurate, but my understanding of it is it’s associated with, with cyanide, and it would be, uh, like an encapsulated cyanide, that as it travels through your body, the cyanide portion, um, does not become available to your body until it becomes in, uh, associated with a cancer cell
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Yeah
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and the cancer cells attack the outer shell of that molecule, and the cyanide becomes, uh, uh, available then, and it kills the cancer cell that’s right there
So it was apparently a very nontoxic substance
Uh, you have regulated dosages
I mean, it seems to me interesting, uh, when a doctor prescribes a dose of chemotherapy, uh, there’s nothing that I can think of much more toxic than a, than a chemotherapy drug, and certainly they’ll kill you if they don’t, uh, give you the right dosage, but it was not seemed, deemed accessible that a byproduct of food; which a doctor could regulate the dosage of as well, could be used as a transfer, cancer treatment
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Uh, and we’ve seen things in the past, as well
When I was a, a very young child, I had a great aunt, that, uh, I was not even aware; at the time I was very young, she was traveling to Texas and getting treatments
Uh, one of them was called the Hoxsey treatment and, uh, she was living a very comfortable life on treatments that she got there
There were 2 treatments in Texas at that time, that, uh, were available
The FDA would come in and raid the clinics, and make just life miserable for them
They got one of them closed down, and that was the one that my great aunt was on, and that treatment was, was pills that she could take, uh, and live quite comfortably, in Nebraska
Once they closed that clinic down, then she had to go down, uh, to the other clinic in Texas, which was a supplement that was a liquid that tasted bad, and she had to make frequent trips, at that point, but still, as long as she could get that treatment she was comfortable and, and lived a normal life
A productive life
Uh, we knew her as our great aunt and, and didn’t even know her, uh, uh, that there was a health problem and, uh, but then the FDA got that clinic closed down
So, as soon as she lost access to those, her treatments, then her cancer which, uh, was no longer able to be controlled, came back strong and, and she died
So, uh, the family had been, had access to this knowledge and this, the FDA’s games with cancer treatments for many years
Um, I’m also married to, a, a gal whose father did blood research as a, he was a Ph.D and worked in university hospitals, in blood research all of his life
He, he discovered a blood protein that was associated with cancer
Uh, it was actually associated more with good health, maybe than you could say with cancer, but he discovered a, a blood coagulation protein, uh, or associated with blood coagulation that would, that could be used as a flag or a test, to see whether a person was healthy or not
Uh, as they applied it to patients in these hospitals, during their research trials, they found that this protein was an indicator whether a person had cancer or thrombosis
Uh, 2 of the very largest killers, and this protein, if present in high enough amounts in our blood, uh, was an indicator that you were healthy, and as the protein’s amount, uh, declined, then it was an indicator that something was wrong, and below a certain amount you knew something was wrong
You better be taking further testing
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Mhmm
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to find out what your problem was
Uh, that has run into resistance
Uh, that (?) has not been approved by the FDA, and, uh, th, our family’s experiences with cancer treatments, cancer drugs, as they’re affected by the FDA, we have determined by our opinion that, uh, it’s, un, unless there’s something that’s going to generate a, a lot of capital, and then a lot of tax money for the Federal Government, the FDA’s not very interested in it
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Yeah
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Uh, so, cynical attitude, but evidence bears it out
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Yeah
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and so we remain cynical until so, until something proves
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Yeah, absolutely
So this is this doctor in, uh, in the 70’s
This is information that he provided
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Yes
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and you can see here that he is obviously, antineoplastic enzymes
See, here obviously
Do you think he meant Dr. Burzynski ?
He just knew of him ?
You have no idea ?
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I have no idea
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He was obviously a fan, if he was someone that eventually said
He said it to you
Did you say he said it to your mum or to your dad?
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To my mom
Probably to mom and dad
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Yeah
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Uh, my mom was the record keeper, and so, she kept the flyer
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Yeah
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but they both took, uh, the, uh, the therapy from, uh, well, the blood therapy
I mentioned it earlier
Suddenly the name’s gone away
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Yeah
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but, uh
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That’s ok
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So
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So what about, um
You know, one of the barriers that we had is, when we spoke to oncologists, they just said, no, you mustn’t come to see this guy
His work isn’t peer-reviewed
He’s a charlatan
Why, why do you think they would say that ?
What
I mean I’m surprised, that these oncologists don’t actually come here, to actually see what, what’s going on
So your opinion about that ?
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My opinion is, that physicians are, very much, tied up, with large pharmaceutical corporations
Uh, I spoke with my father-in-law
My father-in-law had to have research done in, in his Ph.D work, and he had to get cooperation from hospitals, from doctors, and, uh, all of these organizations in order to have the research done that he needed done, ’cause past his lab, when he wants to introduce research, onto a patients, uh, live blood, and he needs to collect specimens from patients, then a whole ‘nother group of, uh, set of authorizations have to be signed and, and he being a Ph.D working with the medical profession all his life, he knew how tied up the medical profession is, by, generally by M.D.’s, that control the money flow, uh, in the medical profession
Ph.D’s do the research, but they have to apply for grants, and typically the grants are controlled by M.D.’s, and so if an M.D. Decides that your, your particular research is either applicable to, uh, something they think will make a lot of money, or it’s the, the quote, uh, popular, popular item of the day
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Yeah
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Politically correct, you name it, then you’re going to get funded
Otherwise, uh, my father-in-law noticed at different times, his research had to be funded out of his own pocket, and at other times, it looked like, it was something that doctors would like, and so they would, he would get funding, but I think that, ah, as he commented, any doctor, coming out of med school, has been contacted by a pharmaceutical company, and has probably signed a contract, that when that pharmaceutical company wants to test a drug, or test an item, that that medical, uh, doctor, will be accessible to them, to test their products
So, with the number of pharmaceutical companies that you have, and all of them recruiting M.D.’s as they come out of med school, and saying, you know, would you be part of our group, you end up under contract with the large pharmaceutical companies
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Mhmm
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and if, if 90% of the doctors are under contract with pharmaceutical companies, to, uh, to cooperate with their drug testing, then large Pharma, has control of virtually all doctors, and so, uh, uh, if you have large Pharma saying, we don’t want to see a cancer cure, that we’re not in control of, we don’t want to see something that makes curing disease cheap, and easy, and food related, then you’re not gonna
They’re going to put the word out to all their doctors: Don’t have any wo, don’t have anything to do with this
Uh, they can come up with, some written material for their, their doctors to read
They send them the evidence
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Mmm
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It may be accurate
It may not be very accurate, and, uh, but it’s just a smear campaign to destroy reputations so that they don’t get hurt financially
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Mhmm
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and, uh, so, uh, that’s the reason I believe
You know, most of these doctors, they don’t have the time, or the expertise to do the research themselves
They can’t read everything, and so when someone they trust, or someone that they’re financially, uh, obligated to, comes down and says: Here’s the stand that we want you to take, and it’s against this particular treatment, or against this doctor, they do what they’re told
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Yeah
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They do what they know best
Uh, my father-in-law, for instance, was, uh, also involved as a professor in these med centers
He taught nutrition, and he said it’s always a, been amazing to me that you can get through med school, and never take a class on, on nutrition
So you can become an M.D., and not understand the value, of nutrition, to a person’s health
That’s a problem
Uh, he recognized it as a problem
I recognize it as a problem because I particularly believe that most of our ill health is because how we treat our bodies
What we eat
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Mhmm
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Whether we exercise or don’t
Whether we provide our body with a way to flush the poisons or not
Uh, healthy living, and if you don’t teach our medical profession, healthy living, how can they teach their patients
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Mhmm
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So this, this whole system is, is just flawed in some ways, and weak in other ways, and, uh, controlled, for the purposes of commerce, instead of the public
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Yeah
So you, you think it’s a good idea treating people as an individual and finding out what they need as opposed to like carpet bombing them ?
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Absolutely
When we understood the, the individualized approach, here at the Burzynski Clinic, that they would take where they would test the cancer cells, uh, against all of these treatments and all of these chemotherapy treatments and, and anything else that might be out there that would, would treat cancer, and come back with a, a individualized care approach to the individualized cells of cancer that my mother has, that’s when we knew that we had to come here
We wondered, and I’ve told my friends, and everybody wonders, that oughta be the standard approach everywhere
Why wouldn’t you test, every cancer, and see what it is that’s gonna treat it best ?
You, you tell me
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Doug Olson chats with Pete Cohen
January 2011
25:00
11/9/2012
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Hannah Bradley – I Feel Empowered, In Control Of My Body: Four Women On Fighting Cancer With Alternative Therapies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10383724/I-feel-empowered-in-control-of-my-body-four-women-on-fighting-cancer-with-alternative-therapies.html

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What stood out to me in the first and last videos is that you could hear both sirens and birds

Unlike “The Skeptics™” (sirens) #whining, the birds were celebrating Hannah #winning
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Just as I did with the case of Burzynski patient Laura Hymas, so will I do with her friend, Hannah Bradley

Yes, unlike “Orac” I will let Hannah speak for herself instead of adding any bias as “Dr. Check my Facts” Hack does
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6/6/2013 – Posted by Hannah

(6:14)

Okay

Hello everyone

Hi

It’s uh Thursday the 6th of June

Yes

(laugh) And uh we’ve got some really good news

We’ve kind of been holding back a little but

we just wanted to be certain

so what were you going to say

Uh, I am finally off treatment

Finally off treatment which is great so as far as Dr. Burzynski is concerned, the treatment is now finished

Hannah is free

Free of the bag

Free of

Yes

Yes

How’s that feel

Yeah, it feels really kind of strange to be honest

Well you want to go back on it again

No

No

But I
I miss the bag, because I miss carrying around ohhh

Now you’re just being a little bit stupid

Um, but the great news is today, we went to go and see Hannah’s surgeon

Yes

Oncologist

A another surgeon another doctor um

Yeah

And that was a bit strange because the last time that we saw
surgeon he gave us
it was probably one of the worst days of our life

Yep

He gave us the results of

Your biopsy

Yep

Which was a grade 3 tumor uh I can remember that like that was yesterday

I don’t really remember

Well but I do

It was amazing uh seeing him today because he’s just basically just agreed with everything that uh that’s been said in America that Hannah’s doing really really well she as far as she’s concerned you don’t have to have any scan for another 6 months

No

Uh so you know really kind of cancer free and

Yep

Now, you know, it is incredible

It’s a bit of a miracle and

it both hasn’t hit home

really

How much

Yeah

How much is

Well we can start our life

We can start our lives, again

Again (laugh)

And um we just want to say

a massive thank you

the list is just

this isn’t the end for us

I’m sure we

boring you

(laughing)

had a very long day

We had to wait an hour and a half (laugh)

(laugh) Sorry I couldn’t help

Calm down

The the list of people that we have to thank

Need

Need to thank is so long, and obviously way up at the top of that list has to be uh Dr. Burzynski and all of the people at the Burzynski Clinic who have been just amazing, you know

Just so supportive um and I suppose really without that treatment I don’t
I don’t think

I don’t

No

I don’t think

You don’t think you’d what ?

It’s not worth thinking about

Yeah, it’s not worth thinking about

But um we have to thank every single person that contributed and helped us and supported us along the way

Everyone that helped us raise money

Um

to thank

Here we go

Who else do we need to thank

I think

Come back up

Come on

(laugh)

We have to thank uh

like I said it’s been a long day today

Uh we have to thank Jamie Lowe

Yes

We have to thank Lindley Gooden

Who else do we have to thank ?

Uh all the people that were in Team Hannah

Yeah

All of your friends

My parents

Your parents

Mhmm

Um just everyone that’s been watching these blogs

We really, really couldn’t have done it without you

And um

We are really, really thankful

You don’t want to go do you ?

Hannah and I were thinking about doing our own comedy show because a lot of people
comments like we’re so funny

Yeah

And who’s the funniest

Uh oh you

Yeah you

Me
Me
Me

Um

So, I don’t know what else to say really apart from, you know, this is really a bit of a fairy tale for us

We know how fortunate
we are and we know how
people
who we met along the way
who weren’t
haven’t been as fortunate as us

So we uh

So, are you alright down there ?

we’re talking about something serious

Very

Yeah, we know a lot of people who haven’t been as fortunate

As fortunate as we have people are forever in our hearts

You know, um, we know how lucky we are and um

We’re going to make the most of our lives the most of our lives together

Um, yeah

We really do think that

No don’t

You know, there was a time

Many, many times where I really didn’t think that Hannah would be here but, you know, we’re talking 2 1/2 years ago that she was diagnosed and she’s doing better than ever even though she is yawning

(laugh)

Um

I don’t think there’s any words that really put into a sense of how so lucky we think we are, and I really think it’s how our legacy to live with that and try and inspire other people as much as we can as well

Ok

So, we’re not going to get go anywhere we’re still we’ll still let you know from time to time how we’re getting on

Uh um I also think we need to give a massive shout out to Ben and Laura Hymas as well who, who really, we went to see them the week before we went to, out to America, and it was there, was a, was a bit of a shock

Really

Realizing what we were about to take on but um she’s

I’m very sorry

She’s someone else who’s done well and we want to give a big shout out to them because we know that they’ve got their lives ahead of them as well as we do too

So, I think without any further ado we’ll give your famous wave

(wave)

It’s not really a wave, is it

Thank you very much everyone

Thank you

Big hug

Wanna hug ?

C’mon

C’mon hug us [10]
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London [1]

4/2010 – first met Hannah and we fell in love and since then our relationship has gone from strength to strength [3]

Hannah (28) has great personality and fantastic sense of humour [3]

10/5/2012 – from Elstead [12]

4/4/2013 – Hannah Bradley (28) [11]

Hannah Bradley from London, UK [15]

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MOOD
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Looking back now, was quite naive [1]

2/2011 – world took dramatic turn [11]

Hannah Bradley from London, UK [15]

To my complete horror [11]

whole world was turned upside down [11]

confused [11]

scared of all the unanswered questions that lay before me
why was this happening to ME? [11]

What did the future hold? [11]

Will I be okay? [11]

absolutely terrified as realised something seriously wrong [15]

Everybody else went into panic, but shock calmed [15]

Inside, scared, could see how frightened Pete was [15]

wasn’t easy decision but really wasn’t another choice [15]

Fear pulsed through me as was wheeled to theatre for operation [15]

4/2011 – thought once surgery over, tumour would be gone [1]

“Hello,” I croaked [15]

“Have I still got all my hair?” [15]

beamed as Pete nodded [15]

long blonde locks were pride and joy, and surgeons managed to operate without having to shave any [15]

Waiting for results was one of most harrowing periods for me and my partner [11]

had to wait for results of biopsy for few weeks and remained positive [3]

while trying to remain positive throughout [11]

tried to keep busy so didn’t dwell on what doctors would say [15]

it was hard [15]

sensed before they even spoke [15]

faces were so serious it had to be bad news [15]

Obviously medical professionals have to be detached when deliver news, but we completely broke down [15]

tried to bite back sobs so could hear what they were saying [15]

blinked for moment, realising meant me [15]

left hospital, in daze [15]

went to sit in park for 2 or 3 hours, working out how to tell everyone [15]

rang dad, feeling ashamed he had to deal with news [15]

didn’t want to upset him [15]

Pete and I rang close friends and family and became easier each time [15]

got chain going to spread news so didn’t have to ring everybody, which was relief [15]

gave me space to come to terms with diagnosis [15]

Once able to get head around it, felt detached from it: [15]

needed to get through next stage now [15]

needed 6 weeks of radiotherapy, did that, thinking this would make me better [1]

Hannah’s bravery and resolve once again rose up as shortly after this she started 6 week course of radiotherapy [3]

news was not good and world was rocked once more as results showed Grade III tumour [11]

whole world suddenly fell apart again and that very moment I didn’t know how to go on [11]

knew had to carry on and from somewhere I didn’t know existed within me, found some bravery and started to have next course of treatment, 6-week course of radiotherapy [11]

hope you will understand this was REALLY difficult for me as I loved my hair and without it felt horrible and ugly [11]

coped well at first, until hair came out in clumps [15]

warned could be few patches of fall, but lost it all [15]

wore headscarves but mourned my hair [15]

work in skincare sales and used to having to look my best [15]

know it was vain, but hair was part of my femininity [15]

missed it [15]

awful but kept going, knowing had to [15]

Seeking alternatives [15]

full of hope [15]

know it’s long fight ahead but feel everyone is behind me and
get so much from that [15]

have a mantra, which like to think I made up but think I read somewhere: [15]

‘You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.’ [15]

exactly how I feel [15]

there was some hope [12]

was truly an incredible time and once again I was filled with hope as so many people came to my aid to support me by raising money and donating what they had [11]

still so thankful for all that support [1]

absolutely overjoyed [1]

wouldn’t turn my back on conventional medicine, but would advise anyone in situation like mine to look into other options – there could always be another way [1]

“If this whole thing has taught me anything, it’s that.” [1]

Thankfully along with other treatment, strategy has worked for me and I’m now trying to help others who are fighting against this horrible disease [11]

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HEALTH
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was salesperson when diagnosed with cancer [1]

ate on the run [1]

smoked [1]

had no real symptoms or warning signs [1]

2/2011 – out of the blue, Hannah had major seizure in middle of the night [3]

2/2011 – one night Hannah’s life changed drastically without any prior health concerns suddenly had major seizure [12]

2/2011 – had grand seizure while asleep [1]

2/2011 – major seizure in middle of night [11]

arms up in the air, body shaking [1]

2/2011 – lost consciousness and was rushed to hospital [3 + 11]

woke in hospital, had no idea what had happened, tests revealed brain tumour size of golf ball in frontal lobe [15]

didn’t know anything wrong before had massive seizure in sleep [15]

boyfriend thought was having nightmare at first, but when couldn’t wake me, realised was unconscious and called ambulance [15]

came round in hospital few days later and didn’t remember anything [15]

underwent countless tests, absolutely terrified as realised something seriously wrong [15]

2/2011 – 4/2011 – don’t remember much about 2 months that followed apart from seeing many doctors, having constant headaches and a # of seizures [11]

had constant headaches and number of seizures [3]

Eventually CT scan showed brain tumour, turned out to be very aggressive, anaplastic astrocytoma [1]

week after CAT and MRI scans told had brain tumour size of golf ball [15]

in frontal lobe and probably growing there for years [15]

doctor gave 3 options: [15]

leave it and see what happened
have biopsy to discover what type of tumour it was and how aggressive
go for surgery to try to remove as much as possible [15]

diagnosed with very serious brain tumour [3]

diagnosed with very aggressive brain tumour [11-12]

2/2011 – 4/2011 – have no memories of that time, from the night of seizure to coming around from 8-hour operation to remove tumour 2 months later [1]

had about 4 more seizures – including one 2 nights before surgery last April – after discharged because tumour growing and putting so much pressure on brain [15]

Pain throbbed through inside of skull as peeled eyes open [15]

Groggy, focused and saw Pete smiling down at me [15]

was in hospital 5 days before going home to rest and getting biopsy results [15]

2 weeks later, went back to see consultant and specialist nurse [15]

news was not good and our world was rocked once more as results showed Grade III tumour [3]

tumour was cancerous and had scary name – anaplastic astrocytoma [15]

4 grades of brain tumours with 4th being worst [15]

Mine grade 3 [15]

statistics quoted said person with grade-3 tumour lives around 5 years [15]

life expectancy for people with tumours like this was 18 months [1]

2 weeks into treatment was hit by wave of tiredness [15]

so shattered had to go to bed for week [15]

went well for 1st few weeks but followed by hair falling out and bouts of tiredness and lethargy [3]

lost hair
started having seizures and didn’t know how long she had to live [12]

was still having seizures and lost independence with losing driving licence [11]

On top of all of this, dealing with losing driving licence as had number of seizures and now has epilepsy [3]

At end of July, had another MRI scan, revealed still residue left from tumour [15]

6 weeks after radiotherapy finished, had another MRI to see what was going on with tumour, Once again more bad news, as there were still remnants of aggressive tumour [3]

Although it was hard I remained hopeful that 6 weeks after radiotherapy would help and I could go on to live a normal life but again results of next MRI were not good [11]

There were still remnants of aggressive tumour [11]

At this point treatment options where very limited and life expectancy was not very long [11]

was told only options available on National Health Service were to operate or have radiotherapy again [15]

Chemotherapy also mentioned but not strong enough for that [15]

doctors said were really uncertain of expected life span if didn’t do anything and since treatment options in UK so limited, we want to try something else [15]

didn’t know 100% whether would work, but had to believe in something; wanted to be positive [1]

Just 8 months after starting treatment had some incredible news [12]

latest scans show she is cancer free [12]

desire to beat this disease led me to make number other lifestyle changes [11]

One of biggest changes has been dietary; specifically cutting out most sugars from my diet [11]

involved learning how to cook, which in itself was huge challenge because I hated cooking with a passion [11]

Over time I started experimenting with different foods and became more and more adventurous and dare I say it, I even started to enjoy coming up with new healthy recipes [11]

quickly learned that exclusive food of cancer is sugar, so quickly embraced this and cut out almost completely starchy carbohydrates and refined sugars by incorporating sugar free/starch free food plan [11]

idea being that diet would feed my body, mind and starve cancer into submission [11]

also learnt this type of diet is good for blood sugar regulation, body composition and is consistent with the way that our ancestors ate thousands of years ago [11]

After months of experimentation and with help of couple of great cooks, have learned to make delicious and nutritious healthy meals and this is why I decided to write my own book, The Team Hannah Cookbook [11]

It’s my contribution to helping and inspiring others to eat a better diet [11]

I would hope you can enjoy these recipes and make them part of your diet [11]

This book will show you how easy it is uto cut out the carbs and still eat “normally.” [11]

I now believe that dieting and counting calories doesn’t work [11]

Low carb is the way forward [11]

You will find in my book great low carbohydrate recipes for – Breakfasts, Breads & Pastries, Starters, Salads, Mains, Desserts, Treats [11]

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TREATMENT
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2/2011 – partner, Pete, called ambulance, was rushed to hospital, unconscious [1]

decided to have operation, hopeful would get rid of it [15]

in hospital 2 weeks following 1st seizure and put on strong medication to stop from having fits [15]

kept awake 2 1/2 hours of 6-hour surgery – medical team wanted to make sure weren’t damaging any part of brain, where tumour was, relating to speech and language [15]

made list of what to talk about with speech therapist during operation, such as meeting Pete at conference in Croatia year before; favourite American TV series, Friends, niece who’d been staying with family week before seizure [15]

remember having to touch fingers with thumbs to check movement still there, hand or my leg would involuntarily move when surgeon touched particular part of brain and asking anaesthetist to scratch itch on nose [15]

“It’s going fine, we’re putting you back to sleep now,” voice said and everything went black [15]

4/2011 – 8-hour operation to remove tumour [1]

4/1/2011 – decided to have surgery underwent 6 1/2 hour operation [3]

4/1/2011 – surgery and underwent grueling 6 1/2 hour operation [11]

awake for nearly 3 hours of this operation [3]

nearly 3 hours of operation was awake [11]
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Pete Cohen chats with Dr. Juan F. Martinez-Canca, Neurosurgeon (Consultant) about Hannah Bradley:
https://stanislawrajmundburzynski.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/pete-cohen-chats-with-dr-juan-f-martinez-canca-neurosurgeon-consultant-about-hannah-bradley/
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operation was success and they managed to remove nearly all of tumour [3]

To my relief
results of operation were fairly successful and surgeon managed to remove uhmost of tumour [11]

diagnosed with Anaplastic Astrocytoma brain tumour and over next few months endured 6-hour operation and 6 weeks of radiotherapy [12]

started radiotherapy 8 weeks after surgery [15]

full on – 6 weeks of treatment, Monday to Friday [15]

needed 6 weeks of radiotherapy, did that, thinking this would make me better [1]

radiotherapy went well for 1st few weeks but fears were confirmed when hair started to fall out [11]

was gruelling – hair fell out, had quite a few seizures – then, at end, scan showed still had remnants of very aggressive tumour [1]

Pete started researching alternative treatments from beginning and was Dr Stanislaw Burzynski, biochemist and physician in US, who seemed right choice for me [15]

found pioneering treatment in America which could give her a chance [12]

One name kept cropping up [1]

Dr Burzynski [1]

treatment is controversial – claims to have identified peptides called antineoplastons, which act as molecular switch to turn off cancer cells without harming normal cells [15]

After reading everything we could, decided to try it [15]

At his clinic in Houston he’s developed a treatment using anti-cancer compounds he discovered and now manufactures – and is treating aggressive tumours, especially ones in the brain [1]

controversial [1]

medical community claims unscientific and unproven [1]

oncologist didn’t want me to go – he wanted to monitor tumour and maybe give more radiotherapy in future [1]

that was like containing it, not getting rid of it, and treatment hadn’t worked so far [1]

Dr Burzynski seemed to be only hope of getting rid of cancer for good [1]

In order to get it needed to raise £150,000 [12]

treatment wasn’t cheap (about £200,000) [1]

treatment very costly, and even using all savings didn’t have nearly enough [15]

£200,000 (Dh1.16 million) needed to go to US, plus ongoing shipping of drugs from States and private monthly scans will need for 12-18 months, was out of reach [15]

Family and friends offered to help, soon there was Team Hannah website [15]

Within few weeks had £35,000, enough to go to US for consultation and start treatment [15]

didn’t know 100% whether would work, but had to believe in something; wanted to be positive [1]

Treatment available in America [12]

Luckily was able to take part in phase 2 clinical trial in Texas, USA [11]

treatment isn’t available via NHS so had to raise considerable amount of money [11]

12/2011 – flew with Pete to Burzynski Clinic [1]
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12/10/2011 – Saturday – video blog
leaving tomorrow morning
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12/11/2011 – Day 1 – Sunday
flew to USA
massive headache
thought was going to faint
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12/12/2011 – Day 2 – Monday
Burzynski Clinic
temp check
vision test
meeting: Dr. Yi oncologist / Dr. Greg Burzynski
(Dr. Rowkowski)
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12/13/2011 – Day 3 – Tuesday
Burzynski Clinic
inject sugar syrup
PET scan
MRI scan review
?’s memory / spelling jumbled
fill out form
Valium
(as much local anesthetic as could give her w/o knocking her out)
catheter – Hickman line
(painful / really painful)
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12/14/2011 – Day 4 – Wednesday
Burzynski Clinic
(feeling wrecked / absolutely wrecked)
start treatment
6 doses of antineoplaston a day
4 hours apart
almost 24 hours continuously
(had chest x-ray)
(Dr. Barbera – talk pain medication)
lessons: clamps / hoses / pump
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12/15/2011 – Day 5 – Thursday
Burzynski Clinic
(Day 2 of treatment)
lessons: change pump
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12/20/2011 – Day 10 – Tuesday
Burzynski Clinic
Dr. Yi / Dr. SRB
enhancing – asked to stay month – next MRI to be done
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12/22/2011 – Day 12 – Thursday
Dr. Hilary Jones on Daybreak
(Pete’s colleague)
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12/24/2011 – Day 14 – Saturday
fever
bad breathing
shivering all night
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12/25/2011 – Day 15 – Sunday
Burzynski Clinic
flu symptoms
breathing
headache
uncontrollable chills couldn’t stop
Monica
off ANP
absolutely exhausted
in bed
little bit of swelling back of head
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12/27/2011 – Day 17 – Tuesday
back on ANP
temp 102
called Burzynski Clinic
off ANP
temp down / up
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12/28/2011 – Day 18 – Wednesday
Burzynski Clinic
on ANP much smaller dose
exhausted
close to breaking / cracking
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12/29/2011 – Day 19 – Thursday
hospital
“I’m at my wits end”
“I don’t feel I can take anymore”
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12/30/2011 – Day 20 – Friday
last week up & down
off on off on off
fever
chills
shaking
viral infection
bacterial infection
had to go to E.R.
surreal
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12/31/2011 – Day 21 – Saturday
fever in middle of night
temp 102
Dr. SRB thinks flu-like symptoms or tumor actually breaking down ->
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1/2012 – started treatment [11]

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1/1/2012 – Day 22 – Sunday
Burzynski Clinic
feel drunky
prob w pump – not closing
felt like completely drunk
double vision
Nurse said anti-seizure drug she hadn’t taken before
bit shaky

Gary – directions re pump equip
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1/17/2012 – Day 38 – Tuesday
Burzynski Clinic
temp 101.8
throat infection
If 102 take off ANP
BC 3x – blood – supplies
antibiotics 1 day

antibiotics 2 day – over 102 last night

fever
antibiotics been on 3 days
off ANP
disappointed
pointless
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1/20/2012 – Day 41 – Friday
fever
104 (103.9)
Friday night
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1/21/2012 – Day 42 – Saturday
Burzynski Clinic
temp up to 104
Dr. on-call – Ibuprofen
102.5
yesterday afternoon (blood) rash ?
off ANP
Dr. Popper
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1/23/2012 – Day 44 – Monday
Burzynski Clinic
Dr. SRB
gave name from pic
some itch
MRI – was to have Wed (12/29/2011 prev MRI)
less tumor
less enhancement
shrunk by at least 10%
call Dad

Been 1 month
Discharge
take Ashley
Rick
Fri – leave
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1/26/2012 – Day 47 – Thursday
Burzynski Clinic
Stable Disease
stabilization
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1/27/2012 – Friday – leave
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medication is administered directly into your body through Hickman line 24 hours a day [1]

not an easy option [1]

Pete and I learnt how to prepare and administer treatment ourselves and carried on in Britain for another 18 months (1 year 6 months) [1]

were there for 7 weeks, and scans showed in that time tumour reduced by 11% [1]

Thankfully has been successful in shrinking tumour [11]

blood was checked twice a week, was scanned every 6 weeks at private hospital [1]

Most importantly, seemed to be working [1]
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6/2012 – back 6 months
3 scans

6/13/2011
12/7/2011

3/21/2012 – 1
5/2/2012 – 2
7/29/2012 – 3

7 weeks at Burzynski Clinic

Complete Response
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tumour kept getting smaller, in January this year it was all gone [1]

started treatment and after 9 months had complete response and will continue on treatment until 4/2013 / 5/2013 [3]

now off treatment but still being monitored [1]

Dr Burzynski isn’t miracle worker [1]

There are well-publicised cases of families raising money for children to be treated at the clinic but children still tragically dying [1]

People have posted on our website that it doesn’t work, but I’m convinced that, if we hadn’t found him, I wouldn’t be here today [1]

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SUPPORT
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Pete Cohen: Team Hannah set up to save life of my partner, Hannah Bradley, who’s 28 years old and has brain cancer [3]

All this time, without knowing, Pete had been looking into things, searching, talking to anyone and everyone who could possibly help [1]

needed to raise around £200,000 to give her opportunity to have life-saving treatment at The Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas [3]

Pete launched campaign – friends and family gathered around, held events, our local radio station supported us – in 2 months already had £100,000, enough to start treatment [1]

You helped her to get it… [12]

Eagle Radio wanted to help give Hannah hope by raising money towards her fund [12]

you wanted to help too [12]

Hannah came in to Eagle Radio to meet Breakfast Show presenters PG and Bev [12]

Listen to interview here: [12]

Pete (Hannah’s boyfriend) met our reporter Anthony Zahra and starts by talking about how couple met: [12]

Jeremy (Hannah’s dad) spoke to our reporter Elizabeth Williams: [12]

photos on Hope for Hannah appeal [12]
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Fundraising events you told us about [12]
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7/21 – Matthew Cank from Farnham doing sponsored bike ride with friends riding from John O’Groats to Lands End [12]
http://2theend.co.uk
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2/24 (Friday) – Pure Dance at Backline, Guildford from 8pm to 2.30am House, electro & trance music with DJs on rotation Entry £10 with all proceeds going to the appeal [12]
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2/25 (Saturday) – Dinner, Dance and Auction at The Mandolay Hotel, Guildford (6.30pm to 12.30am) evening of fantastic food & excellent entertainment [12]
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3/3 (Saturday) – special night held at Godalming Naval Club by Hannah’s best friend
£7.50 a ticket All money to the appeal Includes – food, disco, raffles, auction and more [12]
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5/19 (Saturday) – Health, Beauty & Fitness Fair at Clock Barn Hall, Godalming Free admission, free talks on health, fitness and nutrition Includes – mini treatments, fitness drop in classes, taster sessions, new health products Raffle & bucket collection to raise money for Team Hannah [12]
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Your generosity was astounding and Hannah surpassed her target much earlier than she could have dreamed [12]

Hannah’s Annectdote

A film about Hannah’s journey to The Burzynski Clinic

film we made called Hannah’s Anecdote [3]

made to share with world Hannah’s journey to beat cancer and live normal life [3]

you can see Team Hannah blog we started October last year as well more information about Dr. Burzynski and treatment for cancer [3]

totally aware of controversy surrounding Dr. Burzynski but have seen with our own eyes he saved Hannah’s life [3]

share this with everyone you can, so together we can raise awareness of Hannah’s success and of Dr. Burzynski [3]

cookbook by Hannah available at teamhannah.com [1]

Any help you give will be most appreciated and will keep you updated with Hannah’s journey [3]
http://www.teamhannah.com/

Thank you for donating, raising awareness and simply helping to give Hannah hope [12]
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Hannah’s Annectdote: (40:42)
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A film about Hannah’s journey to The Burzynski Clinic
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Look

You’ve got a spirit level in the cam, in the front of the camera for a reason

I know

Ok
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Hannah’s Anectdote
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I’m Hanna Bradley and I’m 27 years old
I have
Well, I found out I had a brain tumor in February 2011
The way I found out is, I had a seizure in, during the middle of the night
I don’t remember anything, but my partner Pete tells me that I did
Rushed to hospital and about week later I was diagnosed with a, an aggressive brain tumor
And then I had to have an operation to remove the brain tumor and I went back for the results, which weren’t that good and I had to go for a radiotherapy

And I spoke to a friend of mine, an incredible man, he’s a doctor, he, he’s retired, he said, why don’t you just look and find people in the world who still have this condition and still alive
So, that’s what I did
And I found some people, and it, and they all led to this guy Burzynski, but you mention Burzynski to uh people who work in the world of cancer, and it’s just like, they, you know, the barriers come up immediately
Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, there’s no question about the fact that these things uh, are reflective and they are, save people’s lives, but that’s not what Hannah wants to do
(If I could go there, and take myself off there, I could)
Burzynski’s work is, some people wouldn’t say it is gene-targeted therapy
Basically it’s peptides
Peptides uh form amino acids in the body, and he’s found from his research that uh, certain people do not have these types of peptides, and uh especially people with certain types of cancer
What have you got to lose, and what’s the worst thing that can happen, if it doesn’t work ?
What’s the best thing that can happens ?
It saves her life
(laughter)
(I’ll give the ass a smack)
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video blog 13th of November 2011 (2:00)
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(Come sit down)
Good morning
Good morning
Good Morning

Why this week is such a big week is we go to see Hannah’s uh GP tomorrow, and we really need him on side with the treatment that Hannah’s going to have, and, and that could pose a bit of a challenge, because this treatment with Dr. Burzynski is not peer-reviewed, and what that means is that, with the NICE guidelines in this country, people are
very unlike to promote a uh treatment that isn’t peer-reviewed in the way that they would want it to be, but, we’re hoping that he will help and support is when we come back

Yeah

We will also go and see the oncologist this

Yes

which is gonna be a very interesting conversation because again, we want their support
It’s unlikely, very unlikely that they’ll give us the support that we need
because when Hannah comes back, she’s going to need MRI’s every month, and that’s just not gonna happen
We’re going to have to pay for that, but, we’ll let the pets do that of course
We’ll let you know next week, but this week is gone, but for now this is Team Hannah saying, Team Hannah, Team Hannah saying
Goodbye
Bye
Goodbye
That the wave that you do
(laugh)
I’m getting better at the wave
I don’t know about that, darling
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Royal Free Hospital
London – December 2011 (3:19)
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You know, maybe I’ve been led down a garden path if you like, going to work with Burzynski, because you speak to any oncologist; which we have, lots of (?) specialists in this field and they say:
“No don’t do it”
“The guy’s a charlatan”
“You’re wasting your time”
“You’re wasting your money”
“It’s not going to work”
“There’s no clinical research”
But I feel in my heart that we’ve gotta do this
Not just because, you know, what is there left to do, but I actually think it’s going to work
Is it going to be a placebo effect, or is it actually going to be that what this guy does works ?
I’ve spoken to people who he, who he’s treated uh and they all can’t speak highly enough of him and of the clinic that we’re going to
So I’m going to film as much as I can of her journey, and she’s happy for me to film
And the clinic in Houston are happy for me to film whatever I want
So I’m going to
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video blog 10th of December 2011 (4:10)
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I don’t know how many blog videos we’ve done but we’ve done quite, quite a few and I think it’s amazing that we’ve got to this point
It doesn’t seem very long ago that we were sitting and talking about doing this, and within a few months we’ve raised all this money and we’re, my bags are packed
Your bags is almost packed

My bag is packed

And your bag is packed and we’re leaving tomorrow morning
I know there’s been a little bit of controversy

Yeah

about what we’re doing, but please, whatever you hear about it, we have done a lot of research into this
and we feel very confident about what we’re doing, were going to get very well looked after and we’ll be able to share all of that with you
So, next time you see us we’re going to be in

Houston

Texas
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Day One (4:52)
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Good morning Hannah

Good morning

And where are we ?

At the airport

So, you ready for this ?

I’m ready

Ready to start this next phase of our journey ?

Yeah

Ok

I’m really ready
I hurt, like I’ve got a massive headache

Yeah
That was pretty traumatic for you, wasn’t it ?

Yep
Pressure
Um, and getting through customs and everything like that
I felt like I was going to faint
Um, yeah, apart from that all good

Yeah ?

Yeah

And how’s it feel to be in Texas

It doesn’t feel any different at the moment

(laughing) (?) that’s a (?) Avis rent-a-car thing-a-ma-bob
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Day Two (5:37)
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(?) there you go
Right-o

Hello everyone

Hi

I’ve

Ok

I’ve got less hair than Pete

Are you looking in the camera or are you looking in here ?

I’m looking in here

Uh what are you looking there ?

(laughing)

Hello
Everyone
Today is going to be a very interesting day
We’re going to film, all that we can
We’re not going to meet Dr. Burzynski
We won’t be meeting him until the 19th, but we feel more than happy to be meeting his fellow doctors
What’d you reckon ?

You’re going to kill me in the car before you, we get there ?

Why

Because you’re trying to film and drive, and you don’t know where we’re going

Well spotted
Look
There it is
We’ve finally made it

So how’d you feel, that we’re finally here ?

Yeah
I feel good

Do you ?

Yeah

You ready ?

What are your expectations ?

I have no idea

Well, lets go and find out

Don’t have any expectations although I sure don’t want to be disappointed
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[Temperature]
(Close your lips please)
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[Eyesight]
(Ok
How about this one ?)

D

(Ok. We’ll have to go )

(laughing)

(I’m sorry)

Should I actually be able to ?

(#5)

Ok
P E C F D

(Ok. Good)
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So, was that bad ?

Uh, can’t see any of them

Oh, ok
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Meeting with Dr. Yi and Dr. Greg Burzynski (7:14)
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(?) we’ve reviewed your scans, your MRI, and we’re very aware of your case

Yes

We have permission to start you on the antineoplastons

Mhmm

which as you know are in the final stages of drug approval

Yeah

Dr. Yi is the oncologist on this case

Yeah

Likewise Dr. Rowkowski will be involved
Likewise I’ve an I’ll, I’ll be on the case

Ok. Great

And my father as you know is aware of what we’re doing here

Yeah

So as early as Wednesday we’ll be starting treatment

Mhmm

Tomorrow we can put in the catheter, and this is an external
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Day Three (7:44)
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What else is happening today ?
Look

Don’t want to think about it right now
Gonna have some sugar syrup put into me

(?) PET scan

Yeah
Which they inject sugar
I’d rather eat some

Yeah
Inject sugar and then you’re also having a, this Hickman line fitted

Yeah

Hopefully they’re gonna let me put on a white coat and come and be by your side

You can’t put on a white coat
You’re not a doctor

Well hopefully they’ll let me film

Well I don’t care about filming
I just care about you being there
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Hannah’s MRI scan review (8:15)
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So this is the one that was done in December, right ?

Yeah
This is the one that was done in December, and it has increased

‘Cause if I look at the, it’s more intense

Yeah

There’s more weight

Yeah

upon the image
Ok

Seen change in a month, right ?

Yeah
It’s in a month
That’s why

Less than a month

Yeah
That’s why kind of it’s a little scary
’cause it has
I mean it looks like it’s more prominent now

Yeah
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(8:46)
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after (?) this MRI scan, and you can see that the tumor is enhancing
She doesn’t know that
How will I tell her ?
Probably not, but she’s probably going to ask, and if the tumor grows like it’s, then you just saw in the scan, then how long does Hannah have left
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(9:06)
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Yeah
That would mean very

That’s pretty good
Ok
That’s good
That’s good enough
So any memory problems ?
Any speaking proc, speaking problems

No
No, not really

Ok

Spelling
Spelling, yes

Ever since surgery

So, what kind of problem ?
Like when you spell you miss letters ?

Yeah
Her spelling

Why, yeah
It’s just I’m jumbled

Ok

Yeah
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(9:28)
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Right
So uh were just getting ready now for Hannah to go in and have her