Burzynski, the Movie
2010 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 894 VOTES · DIR. Eric Merola
Overview
Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history. His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDA testing in 2011–barring the ability to raise the required $300 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials.
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00:00:00 This is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D. biochemist who has discovered gene-targeted cancer medicines that are known to cure most types of human cancers.
00:03:08 It says "life" right in the beginning.
00:07:36 When someone has cancer, they have a higher level of oncogenes switched on, with a higher level tumor suppressor genes switched off.
00:13:11 Now she is alive, well, and prospering.
00:16:47 I wouldn't want to go through it. Why do it?
00:22:08 to cover a broader spectrum, and to be easier to administer.
00:26:39 It felt to me like they were grasping at straws.
00:31:09 we've got all this stuff in the war on cancer, and it's trillions of dollars.
00:36:43 people began traveling from all over the county to receive Antineoplaston treatment.
00:40:54 professor of radiology at Georgetown University and founder of neuroradiology section at the NCI
00:44:06 Finding that the medical board did not introduce any evidence at the hearing that Antineoplastons are not safe and effective
00:47:45 - that the Food and Drug Administration had been pressuring the Texas Medical Board to continue trying to take away Dr. Burzynski's medical license.
00:52:36 Let me play devil's advocate
00:55:46 and telling about the grand jury investigations and subpoenaing documents
00:59:19 there is nothing else they can do, and they told us to enjoy what little life he has left.
01:03:41 which was highly toxic.
01:08:22 So, just a year before his trial facing life in prison, the Food and Drug Administration had finally authorized the very thing that Dr. Burzynski and his patients had ever wanted.
01:13:32 they represented the biggest power, but they still were doing this all the time.
01:18:39 -the experts from the NCI, they did a very good job.
01:23:21 After everything was approved and Burzynski released his medicine, a full year passes
01:27:23 "There must be a reason why you are afraid to provide us with complete copies of medical records."
01:31:16 they do whatever they can but they do not cooperate with us anymore.
01:36:27 That's the real thing from the National Cancer Institute and Elan Pharmaceuticals.
01:40:57 True progress in medicine has always, without exception, been violently resisted by medical authorities who cling to the beliefs of their time.