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