Does vitimin b17 really kill cancer?

Question

http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/introduction.html


read that its interesting and if you have cancer it can offer you hope, and hope is always cool

Answer 1

yes, there are really good control on cancer with b17. But if that treatment works the pharmacys worldwide would close. So they prefer control us with failing chemos, than try other medicines.
My uncle had a stomach cancer incurable. He takes B17, Essiac and Ukrin . He said -no surgerie, no chemo. And begin with that. Thay have passed 3 years, the tumour shrink and dissapeared and he have a normal life.
So mister cientist why you continue ceptic.Hooo america how terrible wrong you are.

Answer 2

No. There is no scientific evidence that it kills cancer. (note the site you quote has a disclaimer that there is no proof that it kills cancer. :-D But they do offer to sell you books.)

There isn't any real vitamin called b17 anyway. It is an invented name for cyanide which can kill you before the cancer.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/laetrile.html

A good place to check for objective research and medical reports on cancer treatments is at the National Library of Medicine. Here is one of the more recent reports conducted on laetrile:

"1: Support Care Cancer. 2006 Nov 15; [Epub ahead of print] Links
Laetrile for cancer: a systematic review of the clinical evidence.Milazzo S, Lejeune S, Ernst E.
Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Institute of Health and Social Care, 25 Victoria Park Road, Exeter, EX2 4NT, UK, [e-mail].

BACKGROUND: Many cancer patients treated with conventional therapies also try 'alternative' cancer treatments. Laetrile is one such 'alternative' that is claimed to be effective by many alternative therapists. Laetrile is also sometimes referred to as amygdalin, although the two are not the same. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review is to summarize all types of clinical data related to the effectiveness or safety of laetrile interventions as a treatment of any type of cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All types of clinical studies containing original clinical data of laetrile interventions were included. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE (from 1951), EMBASE (from 1980), Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED), Scirus, CancerLit, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL; all from 1982), CAMbase (from 1998), the MetaRegister, the National Research Register, and our own files. For reports on the safety of laetrile, we also searched the Uppsala database. No language restrictions were imposed. RESULTS: Thirty six reports met our inclusion criteria. No controlled clinical trials were found. Three articles were nonconsecutive case series, 2 were consecutive case series, 6 were best case series, and 25 were case reports. None of these publications proved the effectiveness of laetrile. CONCLUSION: Therefore, the claim that laetrile has beneficial effects for cancer patients is not supported by sound clinical data.

PMID: 17106659 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=17106659

Answer 3

Do not assume that because it is on a website and costs a lot of money, it is necessarily true.

Laetrile salespeople have been taking huge amounts of money from hopeful people for a very long time.

Hope may be cool but it can get in the way of getting treatment that works!

Answer 4

No. There was some research done by respected clinics over 20 years ago about this and they found that it does not. The urban legend will not go away. Enclosed is an article from last year.

Answer 5

check out this cancer research ...............http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

Answer 6

it doesn't necessarily kill it it just prevents it greatly!!