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174 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Gerson's methods of curing cancer had replaced the "conventional" cancer
treatments, the profession's investment in expensive equipment such
as surgical facilities and radiation treatment apparatus would have been
lost, to say nothing of prestige.
However, it was not just Dr. Gerson and his colleagues who had to
endure harassment. Patients who sought out the Gerson treatment in preference
to orthodox medicine were also harassed by members of the orthodox
medical community. In many cases, doctors harangued patients so
persistently that they abandoned Gerson's therapy—even when it
appeared to be helping them—and accepted conventional medical treatment
for their cancer. These tactics compelled Gerson to write to a close
friend in 1957 that:
The most difficult and inhuman part of the measures taken against me
is that the physicians approach the best and almost completely cured
patients and try to have them returned to their hospitals. Here they manage
with orthodox treatments to kill them. I lose in this manner somewhere
between 25 and 30 percent of my best cases.
This sort of harassment of people using the Gerson therapy occurred
even after Dr. Gerson's death, with doctors going as far as phoning patients
in residence at the La Gloria Hospital in Mexico, which was set up
in 1977 to provide Dr. Gerson's therapy on an in-patient basis.
In 1998, the climate of mainstream medical hostility towards Dr. Gerson's
unorthodox therapy programme has not changed. "Anti-quackery" laws
forbid the practise of the Gerson therapy in California and other states of
the U.S. by medical doctors. People with cancer who reject the options of
surgery, radiation and chemotherapy offered to them by the major cancer
hospitals must either struggle to pursue a Gerson-type programme in their
own homes without adequate medical support, or find the money necessary
to travel to Mexico and pay for treatment at La Gloria Hospital, near
Tijuana.
The parents of a growing number of children with cancer are even less
able to choose what they believe is the most suitable treatment option for
their son and daughter, since by law all children in the United States who
have cancer must be given chemotherapy, or their parents may be imprisoned.
Even a demonstrable improvement in the child's condition using
non-toxic methods of cancer treatment will not forestall the application of
this barbarous law.
Gerson's therapy remains on the "Unproven Methods List" of the
American Cancer Society, despite ample evidence in Dr. Gerson's book A
Cancer Therapy: The Results of Fifty Cases, as well as testimony from
former cancer patients whose cancerous conditions have been healed by