Dr. Harold W. Manner: The Man Who Cures Cancer

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PLOWBOY: Haven't your laboratory experiments centered upon mice with mammary cancers?

DR. MANNER: Yes, all of our lab work has dealt with breast cancers in mice.

PLOWBOY: Have you had results from the clinics to indicate that your laetrile/ nutrition therapy is effective against other cancers, too?

DR. MANNER: It seems to be. The clinics are treating all kinds of tumors. The only type we've had significantly less success with is leukemia. I just heard today, though, from a fellow in Ohio. He called to let us know that he'd received our treatment for leukemia and has just been given a clean bill of health by his hematologist. In general this "blood cancer" hasn't responded to our therapy as well as the others have . . . but cures and remissions do occur in these cases, too.

PLOWBOY: Are the American physicians who administer laetrile therapy having problems obtaining the substance?

DR. MANNER: Now and then they are. We had a hassle here just last week, as a matter of fact. Five of Dr. John Roche's patients-over at the Bridge view AntiCancer Center-needed laetrile to begin therapy on Monday. John couldn't have the amygdalin shipped to the clinic, since it was slated to arrive over the weekend, so I told him to have it sent to my house.

I've never had an experience like that before! A delivery truck pulled into my driveway on Sunday afternoon, and the driver said that he had a package for Dr. Roche. When he asked if he could leave it with me I said, "sure" . . . that I would take it to the clinic on Monday. As soon as I had the box in my hand, though, an FDA man and a United States Marshal-both carrying guns-got out of the truck.

"We'll take that stuff right now," they said, and confiscated the laetrile. I couldn't believe it!

PLOWBOY: Did they produce a warrant?

DR. MANNER: No warrant, no. They don't fool with warrants. Dr. Roche had to go and sign for the medication the next day. And, of course, the confiscation made headlines all over town.

PLOWBOY: If a person is able to avoid these government hassles, is the laetrile treatment an expensive one?

DR. MANNER: No, it isn't. The complete treatment-at one of the Chicago clinics, for example-costs $2,000. This includes 21 days of office visits, all the necessary nursing care, all the diagnostic tests, and all the laetrile, vitamins, enzymes, and other medications that might be needed.

PLOWBOY: Do the patients who are treated in these clinics have to go on a maintenance program after they leave?

DR. MANNER: For the rest of their lives.

PLOWBOY: And what does this postclinic therapy consist of?

DR. MANNER: Here's what they have to do: They stay on the diet that we give them with the treatment, supplemented with extra amounts of laetrile-rich foods. The patients also take a regular maintenance dosage of enzymes, to supply the substances-pancreatic and gastric enzymes, etc. -that their own bodies can't produce. Finally, they go on a regular regimen of vitamin and mineral supplements.

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