Introducing Richard Karpinski, Nitpicker Extraordinaire

My introduction to known but unused cancer cures was in 1999 when a ScienceDaily brief article told of a mouse shot with HeLa, an extremely aggressive cervical cancer, failed to die as expected. A very close friend of mine had just died of breast cancer, so this caught my eye. Dr. Zheng Cui of Wake Forest told his lab assistant that she probably forgot to give him the shot of HeLa, so shoot him again. Still didn't die. Give him a million times as much HeLa. Still didn't die. Oh, my, a truly cancer resistant mouse. He was bred to start four different lines of lab mice and forty percent of the first generation offspring were highly cancer resistant, a mark of a dominant gene.

Then I met and got to spend seven years with a renaissance man, Jef Raskin, the guy who started the Macintosh project at Apple. I even helped him finish his science based book, The Humane Interface. He had designed a zooming user interface for a client of his who had some problems with a hospital information system they were developing. The thing that caught my attention wasn't even printed in the book. The new zooming system was so easy to learn, even though it was very different from the graphical user interface first popularized by the Macintosh, that computer experts became comfortable with it and competent in using it in less than two minutes of training. That's not all, novice computer users, who barely knew how to use a mouse, learned the zooming system with less than one single minute of training.

Jef began leading a team of us to build a general purpose system to bring this ease of use to everyone, just as he had done with the Macintosh and the graphical user interface decades earlier. But when he returned from a doctor visit about some back pain that bothered him, he told us that he had an aggressive pancreatic cancer that would kill him in a few months. This pushed me to get more serious about addressing the lack of progress in getting the known cancer cures into wide use.

Dr. Cui found that macrophages and neutrophils, two kinds of white blood cells from the cancer resistant mice, gathered around a cancer cell and pummeled it with their super-oxide granules until they popped and killed it. He then developed an assay for the cancer killing activity of the mouse white blood cells. Almost on a whim, he used the assay on humans and found that ten or fifteen percent of us are highly cancer resistant as well. But only in the summer. Huh? Vitamin D? But there is already a standard procedure for taking white blood cells from a healthy person for infusion into people suffering from bacterial infections that won't go away. When a Wake Forest physician had a patient who was about to get such an infusion, he got Cui to find him some cancer resistant donors. The guy's infection, and his cancer, were both cured.

Later, I read that Dr. Cui had been authorized to conduct a 22 patient clinical trial of his Leukocyte InFusion Therapy, LIFT. But he could not get funding for it since it used no patented drug so there were to be no monopoly profits. The story was already long and convoluted, but I was caught up in it and took on a mission to find funding for that trial. I failed, utterly. But in the last few weeks, I have learned that LEF.org has provided $800,000 to fund a 29 patient trial now underway at the South Florida Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant Institute. Results are expected to be reported in 2012.

Meanwhile, I began to discover several other known cancer cures not being widely used.

DCA is used for some rare diseases and slows growth or shrinks tumors for a serious fraction of those cancer patients who try it.

"Burzynski" is a movie about Stanislaw Burzynski (what a coincidence!) who has been curing many patients for a long time with his own discovery of what he calls antineoplastons. This apparently is legal in Texas as long as he does not ship the treatments out of state. Still the FDA, now largely funded by fees from pharmaceutical companies, became annoyed and tried repeatedly to put him in prison. However grand juries often refused to indict and even when they did, juries refused to convict Dr. Burzynski. However, the American system of injustice still makes innocence expensive to prove, when someone is after you. The movie made me mad, and determined to address the issue broadly.

Then I came across the work of Nobuto Yamamoto and became really excited. He had already conducted three clinical trials for different kinds of cancer and another for HIV. In every single case, he cured every single patient, without recurrence. Each clinical trial was reported in a peer reviewed journal and each paper was freely available online in full. The immediate reaction of oncologists, the NIH, the NCI, and cancer foundations in the private sector was - - - - silence. This made me furious. Who is investigating how the activated macrophages find the cancer cells? Who is finding out why humans are only cancer resistant in the summer? Who is looking into making a quick cheap test for Nagalase and finding out how it prevents the body from making its own GcMAF?

My friend had died of breast cancer. I miss her still. My friend and mentor, Jef Raskin, was taken before he could finish his work of making computers easy to learn and fun to use. I miss him every day. Cancer is awful and cancer therapies are dreadful. My friends went through all that and suffered mightily. And then they died, so the rest of us get no more of their contributions to the world. Why hadn't the whole cancer research community jumped in in 1993 when the first promising reports from Yamamoto were published? It didn't seem right to me.

As I pursued the matter, I came across stories from many decades ago. Royal Rife was called a quack and attacked for his presumptuous claims to cure diseases including cancer. Maybe he was a quack. I can't tell. The Hoxsey Therapy, a mixture of herbs, was first marketed as a purported cure for cancer in the 1920s by Harry Hoxsey. He said he developed it after a sick horse got better while grazing on certain herbs in a corner of his pasture. The Wikipedia article says it's a fraud, but other stories say that AMA doctors tried to purchase the rights to it but refused Hoxsey's demand that people too poor for the treatment should receive it for free. So Hoxsey wouldn't sell it to them. Then in a story much like the one about Burzynski, Hoxsey, and later his son, was sued repeatedly, though not convicted, but still driven from state to state, eventually moving his clinic from Texas to Tijuana, Mexico. It may still be there. I can't tell about his treatment, but I don't trust the AMA or the FDA about it, either. Would you?

If you have more information, or suggestions, or want to join a team to pursue this mission with me, then feel free to write or call me.

Richard Karpinski, Nitpicker Extraordinaire
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly, ..... at first.
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