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2022-10-17 16:44:46 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Burzynski’s antineoplaston therapies as cancer cures have been studied and found to be ineffective. The FDA has issued warnings about their cost to patients, basically selling false hope to the desperate. Well-regarded doctors consider them quackery at this point. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/my-cancer-free-life-a-reality-series-designed-to-promote-stanislaw-burzynskis-quackery/

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• Burzynski’s antineoplaston therapies as cancer cures have been studied and found to be ineffective. The FDA has issued warnings about their cost to patients, basically selling false hope to the desperate. Well-regarded doctors consider them quackery at this point. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/my-cancer-free-life-a-reality-series-designed-to-promote-stanislaw-burzynskis-quackery/