by Gavin Phillips, The New American:
On August 12, 1998, Kim and Roman Moreno received the news that every parent dreads: Their seven-week-old daughter, Tori, was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. The tumor was in the brain stem, the most sensitive area of the brain. This type of cancer was considered inoperable and always terminal. The Morenos were told that chemotherapy might extend Tori’s life by a few weeks, but at the cost of severe side effects. They decided to forgo chemotherapy because of the side effects and the fact that it would not save her life.
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The Morenos were told by three separate oncologists at Long Beach Community Hospital in California that Tori’s brain tumor was a terminal case. They also reached out to the late Dr. Fred Epstein, who at that time was one of the country’s leading pediatric neurosurgeons. Epstein told them that there was nothing that could be done.
The Morenos started researching brain tumors, and this is what led them to Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D. and PhD in biochemistry, based out of Houston. Burzynski was treating cancer with a therapy called Antineoplastons (ANP). ANP is a natural treatment that has some excellent results for helping children with brain tumors. It also has few side effects, all minor and short-term, and is totally different from chemotherapy and radiation.
To give a brief definition of what ANP is and how it works, antineoplastons are peptides and amino-acid derivatives in the blood that were discovered by Dr. Burzynski. Cancer patients are deficient in ANP, which provides a defense against cancer by switching off the expression of mutated genes that are causing the cancer.
The Morenos had to get a special exception in order to be able to access ANP for Tori. Roman took Tori to Burzynski’s clinic in Houston in October 1998. In a recent interview, I asked Burzynski whether he thought he could save Tori. He said, “Her condition was so bad that we really didn’t know how much we could help. The question [was], Do we have enough time because her life expectancy was only about a month or so?”
While at the clinic, Tori had a chest catheter fitted, and Roman was trained on how to change the bags of medicine that were filled with ANP. Roman took Tori back to California, and she was on ANP 24/7. Roman told me that the only side effect of ANP was extra urination, so they changed Tori’s diapers more often.
The first improvement in Tori’s condition was noticed in December. Roman told me, “So the first brain scan where we saw some success and some diminished cancer was in December, so it left the doctors in California in awe of seeing some reduction in December, about two months into the ANP.”
Roman said he had to fight very hard to get his insurance to pay for the treatment. It was only when he hired a prominent California attorney and threatened to sue the insurance company for many millions of dollars that they agreed to pay up.
Tori was on the intravenous ANP for about three years and then switched to the tablet form for about 3.5 years. Today, Tori is 25 years old and has been cancer-free for more than 20 years. She has two children of her own. She did not suffer any side effects from the ANP, but did have some nerve damage on her right side from the tumor. She had to learn to write with her left hand, which her parents taught her when she was a child, and she walks with a limp.
You would think that pediatric doctors and cancer doctors would be beating a path to the Morenos’ door to find out how Tori was cured, but there has been little interest. Roman told me that Tori’s own pediatrician, Dr. Albert Lee, “was thrilled”that she was cured. He added that the late Dr. Epstein, “was objectively thrilled” about Tori’s recovery as he was certain she would not survive.
I asked Roman whether there was any interest from the mainstream media. He said he invited the media to Tori’s high-school graduation. “Tori was not scheduled to see her first birthday. When she became a senior in HS, I thought it would be fair for Dr. Burzynski to get some more media attention [and] try to provoke some more interest in the Antnineoplastons. So, I did invite the media to her graduation and a local channel did show up and broadcast that,” said Roman.But that has been the extent of any interest from doctors or the media.
Another Incurable Cancer Cured
There is a related story about another little girl, Crystin, with a terminal brain tumor that is important to document. It was her father, Ric Schiff, who had recommended Dr. Burzynski to the Morenos.
Crystin was diagnosed with a malignant rhabdoid tumor in 1994, when she was four years old. Crystin’s case was considered terminal by the tumor board at the University of San Francisco Medical Centre (UCSF). The only treatment option was an aggressive combination of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
But the side effects of those “treatments” were appalling. Ric Schiff documents how the chemotherapy and radiation treatments affected Crystin. “Over the next 6 months, we literally tortured our little girl. Crystin’s urine burned her from the poisons, and we had to use rubber gloves to change her diapers. She threw up constantly and lost weight rapidly.… Every little cold was life-threatening” due to the treatments seriously compromising her immune system.
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