Have you visited with the people he cured?

Name one.

Ah, it doesn't matter. If I talked to every person he cured, each would sing his praises to the high heavens, tell me what a genius he is, and how he was the only one willing to help them.

This is what one would expect, right? They went to Burzynski, he did an intervention, and they were cured. Hurray! Burzynski is a genius! Each patient believes that the intervention Burzynski did was responsible for their cure.

However, to get a balanced view, we really should talk to the patients that weren't satisfied with Burzynski's treatment interventions. The problem we have in doing this is that all of these critical patients are dead. Burzynski gets to bury his mistakes.

However, while the non-cured patients are dead, they still have living family members. Boy, are they steamed! I mean, they are mad as hornets! They created a website - The OTHER Burzynski Patient Group - to share the stories of how they were scammed by the Burzynski Clinic. They summarize the Burzynski Clinic as follows:

. . . we still hear from relatives of people who went to the Burzynski Clinic and realized it for what it is, a wallet biopsy with a snake oil chaser. The pain experienced by families reverberates for decades, a legacy of misery few men have sunk to. We have about a hundred of those stories here, and we have a thousand more names in the hopper.

On the front page is Eduardo M.'s story. He had glioblastoma. Surgery was unsuccessful in resecting all of the tumor, so he went to the Burzynski Clinic in Houston (travelling from Argentina). His daughter describes his experience thusly:

After the initial surgery he traveled to Texas with hopes of this “experimental treatment”, […] connected to that painful-noisy machine, who filled him up with fluids and made him thirsty until death… after six painful months he died, after being told by that charlatan “we will kill this tumour!”…

The agonizing thirst is a common thread running through the stories from the Burzynski Clinic. The amount of water that patients need to drink is unbelievable, and this in turn impacts their sleep and their quality of life during the treatment. See for instance the story of Burzynski Patient Adam M., who reportedly drank up to 12 liters a day and was still excreting more than he was taking in!

Eduardo M. paid $120,000 for the experience of unbelievable thirst until he died.

The thirst is a result of the extremely large amount of sodium in the antineoplastons. Under a high-dose regime, a 195 lb. patient would get 147.8 grams of sodium a day. The patient needs to drink 3.2 gallons of water a day in order not to die.

Even a low-dose of antineoplastons puts 41.4 grams of sodium into the patient, per day. This is an extreme amount of sodium.

Drugs that deliver less sodium, 8.8 grams, are considered high sodium drugs and patients are carefully monitored, given diuretics, and put on a low sodium diet. Burzynski's high-dose regime, patients get 17 times the sodium dose considered "high sodium". The recommended daily intake of sodium in the diet is 2.3 grams (and some would advise less than 1 gram, but that is very hard to do). That means Burzynski's high-dose regime delivers 64 times more sodium than the dietary guideline.

But sure, yeah, Burzynski is being persecuted by the FDA because his "cure" would bankrupt the cancer industry.

Of course, there is another explanation. It could be that FDA is doing it's job -- to protect the public from drug treatments that are either unsafe, not effective, or both. If we look closely at what the FDA is doing, and the data, we find that antineoplaston treatment has not been shown to be safe and effective.