Alternative Therapies, Cancer
In this video, Ralph Moss spends about 39 minutes speaking on "Alternative Therapies, Cancer" at the 32nd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Ralph Moss
RALPH MOSS, Ph.D. graduated from New York University, New York City (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and Stanford University, California, where he received his Ph.D. Degree in classics. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine; Hunter College, New York; and Williams College, Massachusetts.
Dr. Moss is a well-known Medical Writer who has written 11 books and 3 film documentaries, mostly on non-toxic alternative cancer research and treatment. For the last 20 years he has been involved in an independent evaluation of the claims of various cancer treatments, orthodox and unorthodox.
He wrote the first article on Alternative Medicine for the Encyclopedia Britannica Medical Yearbook. Ralph also wrote the first article on Alternative Cancer Treatments for the medical-legal textbook, Courtroom Medicine: Cancer.
A noted public speaker, Dr. Moss has appeared on over 400 radio and TV programs and has been an invited speaker at many universities, medical schools and societies, here and abroad.
Dr. Moss was a founding member of the Alternative Medicine Program Advisory Council of the N.I.H. and is currently an Advisor to the Rosenthal Center of Columbia University and the University of Texas project on Unconventional Cancer Treatments.
He may be contacted through his office in State College, Pennsylvania by his website www.cancerdecisions.com and e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
Well, thank you all very much. I want to thank my friends at the Cancer Control Society. This is my fourth or fifth speech here. First time, I think, was 1980. And I'm going to order a copy of that tape to see what I was saying back in those days. I'm sure I thought I knew more than that. I think I know now. It's not false modesty. Maybe it's a lack of loss of brain cells as I get older. William Butler Yates was, of course, famous Irish poet. And he he had a poem that I always loved called Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? I'm not an old man yet, but I'm getting there and I'm not mad yet. But I'm I'm getting there in both senses of the word. I'm going to talk to you today about the war on cancer and about alternative cancer treatments. But I'm not going to give you a litany of treatments to take of supplements to go out and buy of clinics to go to, run to and so forth. What what what really fascinates me and what I think you really need to know is to start to develop the mechanism by which to figure out which treatments are most likely to be effective for you or not. And also to understand what is really happening in our society with the war on cancer. My own tenure in this fight began, as was indicated in the in the citation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. I was the science writer and later the assistant director of public affairs and discovered that we were doing experiments on Laetrile or AMYGDALE and in animals. These experiments, as I discovered, were turning out highly positive in the in the laboratory. And we in public affairs were instructed to tell the public to tell you and people 30 years ago that the test had, in fact, come out negative. I refused to do this. I did everything that I could to publicize this fact. And I was fired in 1977, as they said in The New York Times, for failing to carry out his most basic job responsibility, which I guess it means to lie for your boss when your boss tells you to lie. I was not able constitutionally to do this. And and so I stood up at a press conference and denounced them. And since that time, I guess I had the I had the choice at that moment to. Basically, forget about this unfortunate experience or to go forward with the examination of.
Cancer treatments in general, alternative treatments, but also conventional treatments. And