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ByGailReid
Cancer patients will be free to choose
Laetrile for their treatment if a bill intro
duced by the Health and Welfare Commit
tee Is adopted by the Nebraska Legislature.
. The Legislature intent, according to
the bill, is to secure a patient's freedom bf
what is best for them," said Alfred Schutte
, of Guide Rock, Neb ; . v.'? "
. Americans, should, not let-anyone tell
them" what they may or may not do with
i, their bodies, -said,-Ernest. Krebs of. San
Francisco, a co-discoverer of Laetrile. ,
More, people' .are dying' of . cancer at
choice rather than endorsing the effective- younger '.ages flow than any time' in history
ness of Laetrile. Much of the testimony at There is a "deadly holocaust?; stemming
a Monday hearing supported cancer pa
tients freedom of choice in their treatment.
The bill, LB778. will legalize the manu
facture and sale of Laetrile with prescrip
from cancer, he said.
Although Laetrile is not a - total ' cure,
Delbert Nielsori of Lunch , ' Neb . said ' he
wants the freedom to choose ."Nielsen's
Ernest Krebs, co-discoverer of Laetrile
Photo by Tim Ford
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,tlon by licensed physicians.: However, all 24-year-old son's only hope to stop a brain
physicians will be required to inform pa- .tumor from growmg back, is -Laetrile be
tients that the Food and Drug Administra- - cause radiation and chemotherapy; have
tion has not approved Laetrile, which is , no effect on brain cells, he said,v,, im, ,
derived from apricot pits, as a treatment or v Choices are not free if they are not In
cure for cancer. All patients will - be - formed choices said those opposing the
required to sign a statement stating that : ;bill. The public is not getting all the in
- they - understand the information about formation about Laetrile and cannot make
Laetrile. . . V-informed choicesr sddpharma(t-;Rex'C
v addition, no hospital or health care Higley. : -C-V '. ;
institution will be able to forbid the use of. Questions about the chemical substance
Laetrile-wh a doctor, ac- arid potency, of the .drug,1 and changing
cording to the bill. v ' scientific theories V about Laetrile showi a
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Patients' and doctors deserve freedom to ofie UJSFood and Drug Administration,
choose what cancer treatments to use and Americans', right to make informed choices
, prescribe, Sen. Richard Maresh of Milligan is destroyed ;by lack of information, he
said. Laetrile should be legalized because it said;-'-' c.; - 'i'-' J V . ? ''i '
, rcan encourage a patient psychologically DrJ Henry,' Lemon of the University of
toward recovery, he said. n , . Nebraska : Medical - Center said "Laetrile
i Cancer patients and citizens who testi- should not be given an: unproven benefit :
fied at! the hearins areued for their con-, nfthedouht , -:- '. -- .
stitutional freedom of choice.-Laetrile As far . as physicians know, it has; no
should be legalized so patients can choose;? effect on cancer, he said. r 1 " ; v'l
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