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The 1982 Letter from Irwin Stone to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(Although Dr. Fred Klenner first speculated (1971) that 100 to 300 grams per
day of intravenous Vitamin C for up to 3 months could cure cancer, the first
actual use (1979) of such heroic amounts of C is described in this
letter.)
(Note: Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his
discovery of Vitamin C.)
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Dr. Irwin Stone, FIAC
1331 Charmwood Square
San
Jose CA 95117
(408) 374 1980
30 August 1982
Dr.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
National Foundation for Cancer Research
PO Box
187
Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
Dear Albert,
It is over a
year since I last wrote you. Now, after 7 more published papers on the genetics
of scurvy, I want to bring you up to date.
Enclosed is a transcript of
my latest paper, presented 26 June 1982, "Scurvy, the Most Misunderstood
Epidemic Disease in 20th Century Medicine", Reprint No.120-T, which I thought
would interest you because of its implications in cancer
research.
Because of the poor and inadequate full correction of the human
defective gene for GLO (too little daily ascorbate intake), every cancer victim
was born scorbutic, after a 9-month intrauterine bout with scurvy. This poor
correction, due to grossly inadequate maternal daily intakes of ascorbate,
continues throughout the lifetime of the victims, exposing them constantly to
the deleterious physiological insults of Chronic Subclinical Scurvy (the CSS
Syndrome). This is a large factor in the genesis of the cancer. Every cancer
victim being treated by orthodox oncologists suffers also from a bad case of the
CSS Syndrome. When the orthodox cut, burn, and poison techniques prove too much,
the cancer victims do not die solely from the cancer lesion, but are pushed into
their grave by the exacerbated uncorrected scurvy that is always present. We and
other workers in this field haven't really realized the enormous size of daily
dosage of ascorbate required for therapy and survival in cancer.
I would
like to tell you of an unusual cancer case history that I believe could act as a
prototype for future cancer therapy and survival. A 44 year old chemist and
patent attorney, a friend of mine, Joe Kieninger, in May 1973, was diagnosed as
having prostatic cancer and received the usual high risk surgery and radiation
therapy. In November 1977 a bone scan indicated the cancer had metastasized to
the pelvic bone. At that time he was declared "terminal" with about 1 year to
live. In January 1978, he started taking laetrile and 2 grams of ascorbic acid a
day. After 10 months the cancer was still growing slowly and he modified his
therapy to ascorbate orally at 24 grams per day. The cancer continued to grow
and a new pelvic tumor was found as well as a tumor in the lung. In May 1979 he
increased his ascorbate intake to 80 grams per day and at this level there was
no cancer growth for the next 6 months. During the past 2ｽ years he had the
cancer under control and it grew only when his ascorbate intakes were less than
80 grams a day, or he went off his diet (no beef, candy, etc.) but stayed at 80
grams a day. During this time one pelvic tumor and rib cage tumor regressed. His
primary pelvic bone tumor has not grown for 16 months and several times his lung
tumors have not grown for 3 month periods. Since he began taking 80 grams a day
in 1979, his well-being has been excellent. He says he feels great most of the
time, has also been able to continue working every day and lives a fairly normal
life of the years since November 1978 when orthodox medicine said he would be
dead. Visually he looks more like an athlete than a terminal cancer patient.
Recently he has been feeling poorly because of some unusual excessive stresses.
His wife broke her ankle and he had to take care of her and his home in addition
to work and also underwent surgery. In the last few weeks he has been able to
improve his well-being by increasing his ascorbate intake to 130 to 150 grams
per day!! He has been taking oral doses every hour of 5 to 10 grams of a mixture
of nine parts sodium ascorbate plus one part ascorbic acid dissolved in water.
These doses are well tolerated and within "bowel tolerance" and he has had no
trouble from diarrhea except just lately when he had to reduce the 150 grams a
day to 130 grams.
I believe Joe's case is a classic and a good
demonstration that if sufficient ascorbate is given to fully conteract all the
incident stresses, then the cancer can be controlled. If given early enough in
this disease, then cancer may no longer be a problem. Up to now we just haven't
realized how big these daily controlling doses have to be.
Joe
occasionally goes over to see Dr. Barry Saltzman of our local Holistic Medical
Group for a booster IV shot of sodium ascorbate. Dr. Saltzman ran some ascorbate
determinations on Joe's blood and came up with the highest blood levels I ever
saw. At one point it was 35 mg%!! Our so-called "normal" but scorbutic
population averages 1 mg% or less, our kidney threshold is 1.4 mg%.
Last
year Joe also went to see Dr. Ewan Cameron of Scotland when he was visiting at
the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Cameron was astounded
at his 35 mg% blood values. In the published Cameron and Pauling cancer work,
they only used a maximum dose of 20 grams of ascorbate a day.
I would
like to see a crash ascorbate program started on terminal cancer patients using
doses in the ranges found by Joe Keininger to keep his cancer under control.
Since these "terminals" have been abandoned by orthodox medicine, they have
nothing to lose but their ill health. If we could add years of survival and
fairly normal living as Joe did, then it might be an incentive for orthodox
oncologists to properly use ascorbate in the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Maybe your NFCR could start the ball rolling on this terminal cancer salvage
program.
Proper funding for work of this type is always a problem and
your Foundation probably needs funds just as mine and Linus Pauling's does. To
help the Linus Pauling Institute with its fund raising drives, I've agreed to
autograph copies of my book, THE HEALING FACTOR, "VITAMIN C" AGAINST DISEASE, to
be given to any donor contributing $100. or more. I would be happy to make
available to NFCR, reprints of my scientific papers for this purpose such as the
enclosed Reprint No.120-T on "Scurvy" or Reprint No.85, "The Genetics of Scurvy
and The Cancer Problem", or any other of about 50 reprints listed in the
enclosed list, if you want to use them in your NFCR Research Review. Please let
me know how I can help.
I'm sorry this letter became so long. With kind
regards and best wishes,
Sincerely yours
(signed)
Irwin
/bs
Encl. 3 Reprints No.120-T, No.85,
List of Publications
1965-1982
cc. - Joseph Keininger, 1125 Casaba Creek Court
San Jose, CA
95120
21st Century readers: mg% = milligrams (of vitamin C)
in 100
grams of water or other liquid = parts per 100,000.