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"It is reasonable to assume that other malignancies of unknown etiology might also be found in this section of the nci. Additionally, a thorough review of the records of the National Cancer Advisory Council, the Scientific Directorate, nci and the Etiology Program Management Group, nci would definitively reveal the etiology of AIDS and perhaps other diseases. Progress Report #8 speaks to the prior history of the program. In 1964, the U.S." - Boyd E. Graves, State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS (Get the book.)

"NCI's budgetary allocation for prevention of occupational cancer, the most avoidable of all cancers and conservatively estimated to be responsible for about 10 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths in adults and children, is about 1 percent ( 5). The budget for research on and outreach to African-Americans and other ethnic minorities, with their disproportionately high cancer rates, is also about 1 percent of NCI's budget; allocations for all primary prevention activities are well under 5 percent of its total budget." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Despite more than $50 billion in expenditures of taxpayer money by the nci since President Nixon first declared war on cancer in 1971, less than 2 percent of that budget has gone to cancer prevention. Not surprisingly, overall mortality rates have remained virtually unchanged. Over the past decades, we have seen the nci and ACS, hand-in-hand, issue numerous breathless assurances, eagerly trumpeted by the uncritical news media, that breakthroughs in the war against cancer and in cancer treatment were imminent." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Bailar confronts the NCI's unfounded enthusiasm with "We are losing the war against cancer" and has shown that the death rate, age-adjusted death rate and both crude and age-adjusted incidence rate of cancer continues to climb in spite of efforts by the nci. Non-whites are excluded from the nci statistics for vague reasons. Blacks, urban poor, and the 11 million workers exposed to toxic substances have all experienced a dramatic increase in cancer incidence and mortality. Less than 10% of patients with cancer of the pancreas, liver, stomach and esophagus will be alive in five years." - Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The anticancer benefits of the alkaloids vinblastine and vincristine from the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharantheus roseus, were identified separately from the nci programme. Other plant isolates from traditional remedies have been identified as having antitu-mour effects in vitro and in vivo in other research programmes." - Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"By 1977 the NCI's annual budget had grown to $815 million— three and a half times the pre-"war" level.87 Neither the National Cancer Institute nor the American Cancer Society has shown much interest in investigating the environmental contribution to cancer. A committee of the NCI's National Advisory Cancer Board expressed its "astonishment" that the National Cancer Program allocated only 10 percent of its budget to this area. In 1975 the nci expanded its environmental carcinogens program to $100 million, an impressive sum except that it is only 17 percent of the NCI's budget for the year." - E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Get the book.)

"Of 25,000 screens of both synthetic and natural materials conducted annually by the nci, only 8 to 12 compounds will be selected for preclinical testing, and only 6 to 8 of these will actually enter clinical trials.20 THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND HERBAL MEDICINE The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that herbalism is common to all cultures of the world and actively promotes the development of what it calls traditional medicine. The Traditional Medicine Program was established by the WHO in 1977. The WHO Resolution EB63.R4 of that year expressed the following idea: . . ." - David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG, Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.) "So far, nci has screened 176,000 extracts from 41,000 plant samples collected from 25 countries. The University of Illinois obtains samples from Southeast Asia, the Missouri Botanical Garden collects in Africa, and the New York Botanical Garden gathers plants from Central and South America. Each center collects 1,200 samples per year, and different plant parts constitute discrete samples." - David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG, Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Following these impressive results, nci allocated $1.4 million over five years for a large-scale, randomized clinical trial comparing the Gonzalez nutritional program with Gemcitabine in treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer. TGF-P and Cancer Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-[5) is a growth-stimulating chemical that the body requires in massive amounts in its youth and when injured; however, overproduction of TGF-$ may cause excess tissue formation. Dr. S. B." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The inclusion of Zingiber (ginger) in cases judged to be in need of circulatory stimulation seems to be supported by its status in the nci rankings. The use of Glycyrrhiza (licorice) to modulate a prescription is similarly justified. European medicine also features the specific use of an extract of mistletoe extract (notably a product Iscador) as a non-toxic stimulant of endogenous defences. There are many published studies on this treatment but no substantial controlled clinical trials; nevertheless, it is very widely used as an adjunct to other therapy and has strong professional support." - Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Get the book.) "In its intensive programme from 1955, screening plant extracts for anticancer activity, the nci found less than four extracts in every thousand tested containing compounds that demonstrated efficacy. Of the approximately 114 000 extracts studied, 11 000 exhibited anti-tumour activity in the P338 prescreen but of these only 500 demonstrated such activity in panel testing and only 26 proceeded to secondary testing. Of the plant isolates that reached this stage, most were alkaloids or terpenoids, with a few from plants used in traditional medicine (e.g." - Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"That mindset has contributed over the last four decades to the NCI's tendency to trumpet most every new "miracle" or "magic bullet" cancer drug as the latest evidence that the "tide is turning" in the cancer war. To make matters worse, the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The FDA, nci, and ACS spend millions of dollars on public relations in attempts to reassure the public they are doing a good job, despite their lack of progress. The reason they've failed to make any headway against cancer is this very fixation on damage control over cancer prevention. In the case of the ACS, this indifference reaches the level of overt hostility (4). These and other concerns relating to fiscal malpractice led the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the authoritative U.S. charity watchdog, to charge that the ACS is "more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives"." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The chemical groups suggested by the nci as conveying some of this activity include allyl sulfides in garlic and onions, phytates in grains and legumes, lycopene, limonoids, glucarates and related terpenes, carotenes and flavonoids in citrus, lignans in linseed2 and soya, isoflavones in soya, saponins in legumes, indoles, isoth-iacyanates and dithiolthione in cruciferous vegetables, ellagic acid in grapes and other fruit, phthalides and polyacetylenes in umbelliferous vegetables." - Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Gonzalez to present selected cases from his practice as part of an nci effort to evaluate non-traditional cancer therapies. As noted in his interview, Dr. Gonzalez presented 25 patients with poor prognosis or terminal illness who had either enjoyed long-term survival or tumor regression while following his program. After the session, Dr. Friedman suggested they pursue a pilot study in 10 patients suffering inoperable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, with survival as the endpoint." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Additionally, a thorough review of the records of the National Cancer Advisory Council, the Scientific Directorate, nci and the Etiology Program Management Group, nci would definitively reveal the etiology of AIDS and perhaps other diseases. Progress Report #8 speaks to the prior history of the program. In 1964, the U.S. Congress provided funds to the nci for an intensified program in virus-leukemia research because many scientists were convinced that an effort to identify viruses or to detect virus expression in human tumorss would contribute to the determination of the etiology of cancer." - Boyd E. Graves, State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS (Get the book.)

"The director of the nci, now under considerable political pressure, asked his advisory board (a board established to advise the director on nci policy) to review the panel's recommendation. At first they declined, not wanting to interfere with the time-honored process, but eventually they voted 17 to 1 in favor of recommending mammography to all women in their 40s. This example highlights some of the forces that work to preclude rational discourse about research findings on cancer testing. There will always be an asymmetry among testing proponents and detractors." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "The director of the nci convened a 13-member panel of impartial medical experts and consumer advocates and asked them to review all the data available on the subject. The goal was to provide some consensus recommendations for American women. This is the time-honored approach to difficult questions used by all the National Institutes of Health (of which the nci is one); more than a hundred of these consensus panels have been assembled in the past. The panel concluded that the evidence supporting mammography in this age group was weak." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"A few years ago, the director of the nci, the oldest of the NIH institutes, described prevention as "efforts to directly prevent and/or inhibit malignant transformation, to identify, characterize and manipulate factors that might be effective in achieving that inhibition and attempts to promote preventative measures."18 This so-called prevention is all about manipulation of isolated chemicals. "Identifying, characterizing and manipulating factors" is a not-so-secret code for drug discovery. Considered from another perspective, the nci (of the NIH), in 1999, had a budget of $2.93 billion." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"According to reports at the time, the institute's scientific staff and legal advisors had reviewed the material to check the accuracy of the statements and to make sure that they did not imply that the nci endorsed the product. From the standpoint of the nci and political appointees in DHHS, the Kellogg campaign would "infuse millions of dollars of private sector funds into the promotion of cancer prevention messages."21 Kellogg's alliance with the nci largely excluded the FDA and caught the agency by surprise." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"Prior to his nci role, he worked for twenty-five years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He led a faculty of nearly a thousand cancer researchers and clinicians. He is the vice-chairman of the board of C-Change, the leading cancer "nonprofit" of powerful industry players, headed by George H.W. and Barbara Bush. The C-Change board includes Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson. Members of C-Change include: Chiron Corp, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmith-Kline, OSI Pharmaceuticals, and Homer Pierce of Eli Lilly." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In 1967, three years after the surgeon general's report had linked smoking with lung cancer, Endicott appointed the nci Lung Cancer Task Force to create a government research program to deal with the smoking issue. This was not your usual critical group. On the contrary, a subcommittee of the task force was set up with an explicit goal—make cigarettes safer. The Less Hazardous Cigarette Working Group, formed in March 1968, began what turned into a decade-long search to figure out how to make a cigarette that would be less dangerous than those used at the time." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "M arvin Schneiderman, a senior researcher at nci, once defined an epidemiologist as someone who can find something wrong with something that someone else does, who also calls herself an epidemiologist. Schneiderman also joked that epidemiologists eat their young. It is not a field for the faint of heart. In the early 1980s, it was wrestling with a major controversy. Joseph Califano, the activist secretary of Health Education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter, had not only taken on Big Tobacco, as we saw in Chapter 7, he also went after the chemical industry." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Finally the ACS and nci had a champion who spoke the four-letter word that few had dared to utter: cure. Sometimes personal enthusiasms, even for scientists, are hard to hold in check. Haunted by what had happened to his young wife, Strax became an ardent advocate for mammography He believed it had to work. He likened the failure to get a mammogram to walking into a busy street without looking both ways. A woman who ignored the risk of breast cancer faced disaster. " - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Then as now the nci prided itself on having the best and the brightest scientific minds working on some of the most important basic scientific issues. The idea that they would turn to doing the work that the tobacco companies ought to be doing for themselves was especially unappealing to most of the agency scientists at the time. The scientists who were appointed to the working group on tobacco were charged with three objectives: engineer a less hazardous cigarette, identify people at increased risk of tobacco-related diseases, and develop drugs to help people quit." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"If you, the juror, consider that most of academic research seeks to maintain an ethical standard by keeping a small percentage of their research funding from private and public donors (including NIH, nci, and charitable organizations) separate from corporate-controlled research, the picture remains fuzzy. For example, with the above issue regarding Rezulin, suppose only 10% of university funding for diabetes research did come from Warner Lambert." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Josef Issels, whose "whole body therapy" at the Ringberg Clinic had a 16 to 17% cure rate for terminal cancer patients, more clinical evidence is beginning to emerge, at first anecdotal, but increasingly evidence-based, as in the NCI's "Best-Case Series," in retrospective and prospective studies and NIH-funded double-blind trials. There are also scientists newly interested in gathering and assessing systematic data on "Remarkable Recoveries."62 A number of studies in this field again point to the central role of nutritional approaches. Dr." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"For a breast cancer risk assessment tool, — visit the National Cancer Institute Web site, http://bcra.nci.nih.gov. Acrylamide Role in Breast Cancer Refuted Breast cancer is not linked to acrylamide, commonly found in potato chips, bread, coffee, cereal and other fried, baked or roasted high-carbohydrate foods. Acrylamide is currently classified as a probable human carcinogen because, in high doses, it has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Recentfinding: Women who consumed large amounts of foods that contain acrylamide did not increase their risk of developing breast cancer." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"In fact, one report published in nci Cancer Weekly by Michiaki Murakoshi, who led a team of biochemists at Japan's Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, contends that alpha-carotene may be more powerful than beta-carotene in inhibiting processes that may lead to tumor growth." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

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