Alive and Well: One Doctor's Experience With Nutrition in the Treatment of Cancer Patients

by Philip E. Binzel

This is one doctor's experience with nutrition in the treatment of cancer. Dr. Binzel has been using Laetrile and other nutritional therapies in the treatment of cancer patients since the mid 1970s. His record of success is astounding. He tells of his ongoing battle with the medical establishment, but this is primarily the story of his alive-and-well patients, many of whom had been told by their previous doctors that they had only a few months to live. Medical case histories are included.

Genres: Medicine, Health

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

Reviews

[Mary Karpel-Jergic · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was first published in 1994. I read the fourth printing which was May 2000. Although the book is clearly dated and Philip Binzel died in 2003 aged 77, the book remains interesting and controversial. As with all treatments that fall outside the medical standard care of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, Binzel's claim that B17 (Laetrile) can cure cancer is considered beyond the pale. However, the standard medical treatment often doesn't work and desperate people are often prepared to try anything in the hope for a miracle. It would appear from Binzel's account here, miracles can happen.

A small town doctor he treated hundreds of patients with cancer and maintained that you can still live a long and relatively healthy life after you get it if you treat it properly. His treatment focused on laetrile and diet. A total nutrition programme of vitamins, nitrilosides (B17) and diet.

Building on the work of Ermst Krebs Binzel makes a number of insights. You don't cure cancer. You can control it as long as your defence mechanisms continue to function normally and in primary cancer, with few exceptions, the tumour is neither health endangering nor life threatening. What is threatening, is the spread of the disease.

But his ideas and practice were eventually shut down by the FDA and Laetrile still sits on the prohibited list as it is said that the body turns it into cyanide.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in one night. Stayed up waaaayyyy too late to do it. This is a fascinating story of one doctor’s experience with using Laetrile. He caught a lot of flack for doing but praise God there are still doctors really trying to help people get better. It’s a must read.

[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on a MD who went off the conventional path and used Laetrile to treat his patients with cancer. He had amazing results. Thank God for people like this!

[Phil Henderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here are the latest success stories of cancer patients who have used nutritional therapy. Many of them have been told by their doctors that their condition was terminal. Now, years later, they are alive and well!


Dr. Binzel has been using Laetrile and other nutritional therapies in the treatment of cancer patients since the mid 1970s. His record of success is astounding. He tells of his ongoing battle with the medical establishment, but this is primarily the story of his alive-and-well patients, many of whom did not expect to survive their disease. Medical case histories are included.

[Ashleigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone battling cancer or who has a family member with cancer. It's a great book to read period. I actually have a whole new philosophy on cancer treatment after reading this. I wish med schools required this book.
His premise: What if the tumor is a symptom, not the disease?