Cancer Cure Foundation

Founded in 1976 by G. Edward Griffin, the Cancer Cure Foundation is a 501(c)3 charity and website that 'provides an unbiased analysis of the major alternative-cancer clinics, treatments and therapies.'[1] In practice, this means it's a clearinghouse for just about every quack cancer cure under the sun.

Against allopathy
Alternative medicine
Clinically unproven
v - t - e

It is listed as a nonrecommended information source by Quackwatch.[2]

Listed therapies

A small selection of "therapies":[3]

  • Antineoplastons: Created by Stanislaw Burzynski and derived from human urine. They don't work.
  • Essiac: A tea made from four different herbs. It doesn't work.
  • Gerson Therapy: Invented by Max Gerson, and consisting of a modified diet, coffee enemas, and lots of vitamin supplements. It doesn't work.
  • Hydrazine sulfateFile:Wikipedia's W.svg: Developed as a treatment by Joseph Gold. It doesn't work.
  • Iscador: an extract of European mistletoe. It doesn't work.
  • Rife MachineFile:Wikipedia's W.svg: Created by Royal Rife, the device supposedly uses electricity to kill pathogens. It doesn't work.
  • Shark cartilage: Exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't work.

Sensing a pattern yet?

Board members of note

Selected testimonials

What would a website promoting alternative medicine be without its own page of anecdata?

Dee Simmons: Stage one breast cancer survivor[5] Caught early, the stage one breast cancer 5-year relative survival rate is 100%.[6]

Lorraine Day, M.D: The subject of her very own Quackwatch page[7].

Donald Factor: diagnosed with metastatic small cell lung cancer in 1986, survived until July 15 2017,[8] despite being treated solely with laetrile, high doses of Vitamin C, and coffee enemas.[9]

Outreach

The Cancer Cure Foundation sells or links to a wide variety of media, many having to do with laetrile, G. Edward Griffin's personal hobbyhorse.[10]

They also link to seemingly every alternative website under the sun, including those run by Andrew Weil, Gary Null, and Matthias Rath.[11]

gollark: I agree.
gollark: Minoteaur 8 (inevitable) will probably be in Rust or Nim.
gollark: I could also do fun A/B-tests on unsuspecting users more easily.
gollark: Minoteaur 6 was written in it.
gollark: I HAVE used this before. And accursedly patched it.

References
  1. http://cancure.org
  2. https://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/altseek.html
  3. Alternative Cancer Therapies
  4. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin (2010) American Media, 2nd ed. ISBN 0912986506.
  5. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-beauty/2007/fall-winter/mother-daughter-team-turns-diagnosis-into-million-dollar-enterprise/
  6. http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-stage-0-and-stage-1
  7. http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/day.html
  8. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=186248686
  9. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-176861/My-unorthodox-battle-cancer.html
  10. http://cancure.org/books-videos-audios
  11. http://cancure.org/links
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