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

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So, in 1949, I started to research the risks involved in the indiscriminate use of cortisone . . . and my group was funded immediately by the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, which wanted to know why these drastic side effects were beginning to show up. And we demonstrated-in our work with animals-that parts of the body would actually rot off when given excessive amounts of cortisone. We spent five or six years on that research, and later worked with varicose veins and other disorders.

Eventually I got involved in the study of pollution. So many of the things that we drink and eat and breathe today, as I'm sure you're aware, are absolutely unnatural . . . and man is either inadvertently or purposely-responsible for most of these pollutants. I object, for example, to the government's telling me that I have to take a spoonful of fluoride every morning. But I don't have any choice. If I drink the public water here in Chicago I have to swallow that chemical with it.

On the other hand, there are the things that we've come to accept as parts of our day-to-day life: the pesticides, the poisons that come out of smokestacks and automobiles. I don't know Y we'll ever be able to eliminate these hazards completely; but I do know that we can, right now, prepare our bodies to deal with them . . . through good nutrition, exercise, and so forth.

So you see, much of my past work did point toward the studies that we're doing here today. And, although this recent work has been given the name "laetrile research"-the local papers, for instance, call me "the folk hero of laetrile research" or something like that-the label is unfair and inaccurate. Because our experiments have involved many things other than laetrile, which is also called vitamin B-17 or amygdaline. We've done work with vitamin A, with vitamins C and B-15, and with natural enzymes. But the press zeroes in on the lace- of course, because it's a word that sells newspapers.

I have documented case studies of work done with both laboratory animals and human beings which prove that nutrition therapy using laetrile can cure, contain, and prevent cancer.

PLOWBOY: How did your study of pollutants lead you into cancer research?

DR. MANNER: I began my work on the long-term effects of pollutants here at Loyola in 1972. I hoped to predict pollution problems before they occurred by studying the effects of these poisons on the susceptible tissues of fish embryos. It soon became clear, however, that most pollutants are carcinogenic that they can contribute to the development of cancer-so I began to devote more and more of my work to carcinogens and the cancers they caused.

Then-in late 1974-I came across Ed Griffin's book, World Without Cancer . . . which introduced me to the trophoblast theory developed by Ernst Krebs, Jr. and Sr., the "fathers" of laetrile.

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