Every drug has to be passed by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). To have a drug tested before being approved for common use, years of research are involved, requiring huge reports and costs incurring hundreds of millions of dollars. The only companies that can afford this are large pharmaceutical companies. However, their insentive to invest relies on the chance of making huge profits from their initial investment for testing. Eventually they must obtain a “patent” on that particular drug. However, substances found in nature can NOT be patented. The only substances that can be patented are man-made chemicals and processes.

Since Vitamin C, laetrile and many other alternative, and non-toxic cancer treatments are derived from nature, they can not be patented. This explains why they are not approved by the FDA, simply because they can't approve a natural substance. Unfortunately, no matter how effective these natural substances prove to be, they will never become officially approved. This is the reason you hear that natural alternative medicine is “unproven”. Sadly, unless the law is ever changed, the only “approved” substances we will ever have for the treatment of cancer are man-made, patented chemicals and drugs!

But think about it…if eventually laetrile and other natural anti-cancer treatments were passed, and confirmed to be effective, this would end the need for any drug related cancer treatments. a) the FDA would no longer profit from testing these drugs, and b) the pharmaceutical companies would no longer profit from their investment into a particular drug. Also the public would become more aware of natural anti-cancer substances and their effectiveness in prevention, therefore wiping out cancer from occuring in the first place. Where would the cancer industry be then? Most of the pharmaceutical companies will lose billions of dollars in profit, from no longer needed chemotherapy drugs. Interestingly, there are a LOT of people “at the top” who have shares in these pharmaceutical companies, and these are the people we trust and listen to.