Cancer Cure Foundation

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Founded in 1976 by the John Birch Society spokesman and antisemite[1]:163,262 G. Edward Griffin (1931–), the Cancer Cure Foundation is a 501(c)3 charity and website that "provides an unbiased analysis of the major alternative-cancer clinics, treatments, and therapies."[2] In practice, this means it's a clearinghouse for just about every quack cancer cure under the sun.

Quackwatch lists Cancer Cure Foundation / Cure Research Foundation under "Nonrecommended Information Sources".[3]

Listed therapies[edit]

A small selection of "therapies":[4]

  • Antineoplastons: Created by Stanislaw Burzynski and derived from human urine. They don't work.
  • Essiac: A tea made from four different herbs. It doesn't work.
  • Gerson Therapy: Invented by Max Gerson, and consisting of a modified diet, coffee enemas, and lots of vitamin supplements. It doesn't work.
  • Hydrazine sulfate: Developed as a treatment by Joseph Gold. It doesn't work.
  • Iscador: an extract of European mistletoe. It doesn't work.
  • Rife Machine: Created by Royal Rife, the device supposedly uses electricity to kill pathogens. It doesn't work.
  • Shark cartilage: Exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't work.

Sensing a pattern yet?

Board members of note[edit]

Selected testimonials[edit]

What would a website promoting alternative medicine be without its own page of anecdata?

  • Dee Simmons: Stage 1 breast cancer survivor[6] (Caught early, the stage 1 breast cancer 5-year relative survival rate is 99%.)[7]
  • Lorraine Day, MD: The subject of her very own Quackwatch page.[8]
  • Donald Factor: diagnosed with metastatic small cell lung cancer in 1986, survived until July 15 2017,[9] despite being treated solely with laetrile, high doses of vitamin C, and coffee enemas.[10]

Outreach[edit]

The Cancer Cure Foundation sells or links to a wide variety of media, many having to do with laetrile, G. Edward Griffin's personal hobbyhorse.[11][12]

They also linked to seemingly every alternative website under the sun, including those run by Andrew Weil, Gary Null, and Matthias Rath.[13]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. ISBN 1541673565.
  2. "Cancer Cure Foundation homepage (until May 20, 2025) (archived)".
  3. "A Special Message to Cancer Patients Seeking "Alternative" Treatments". Quackwatch. July 25, 2019.
  4. Choice of Therapy: Alternative Cancer Therapies
  5. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin (2010) American Media, 2nd ed. ISBN 0912986506.
  6. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-beauty/2007/fall-winter/mother-daughter-team-turns-diagnosis-into-million-dollar-enterprise/
  7. https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-stage-1/
  8. Stephen Barrett, M.D. (August 19, 2024). "Stay Away from Dr. Lorraine Day". Quackwatch.
  9. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/donald-factor-obituary?id=6814982
  10. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-176861/My-unorthodox-battle-cancer.html
  11. https://new.cancure.org/news/recommend-reading-materials/
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20250427201659/http://www.cancure.org/books-videos-audios
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20250420171452/https://cancure.org/links