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176 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
believes its claimed efficacy is based, that his material should receive
publication and proper attention and criticism by the medical profession.
I sincerely hope it will be possible to arrange this.
When both the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer
Institute were approached about the Gerson therapy in the 1980s however,
both organisations denied having even seen a copy of A Cancer
Therapy: The Results of Fifty Cases, despite the fact that due to the heroic
efforts of Dr. Gerson's daughter, Charlotte Gerson Strauss, the landmark
book has remained in print for 40 years. In 1984, the American Cancer
Society, along with the House of Representatives Select Committee on
Aging declared that the "Gerson method of treating of cancer is of no
value."
Although the "Unproven Methods List" is updated every six months,
Gerson's therapy is not likely to be deleted from the list in the near future.
The Unproven Methods Committee, according to the director of the
Unproven Methods Office, G. Congdon Wood, supposedly makes its decisions
on the medical literature. More recent information which supports
his therapies, such as that published in the 1978 Journal of Physiological
Chemistry and Physics seems to have been ignored—a spokesperson for
the ACS explaining that they "had not seen" the article.
Government agencies such as the FDA. are also consulted in the review
process. Unfortunately for people's health, the FDA. is notorious for its
prejudice against vitamins and other natural therapies. When Charlotte
Gerson Strauss was attempting to find a publisher for her father's book,
some of the publishing houses considering the book received threats from
the FDA, which had recently (May 1992) made a raid on the Tahoma (natural
health) Clinic in Washington State, and seized vitamins and patient
records, among other things. It is obviously not the sort of agency you
would expect to endorse Gerson's therapy any time in the near future.
The National Cancer Institute is another agency that gives the
Committee information about therapies on the Unproven Method's List.
This agency long ago rejected Dr. Gerson and his work. Would you reasonably
expect a prestigious national institute to sully its good name as the
Castle of the Valiant Knights in White Coats battling the twentieth century
scourge of cancer by associating with a "quack" who was expelled from
his own State Medical Society Hardly.