In 2004, I took my wife Marianna to the IMAQ clinic in Tijuana, Mexico (www.drcastillo.com) to see what they could do to help her in her battle with breast cancer. I won't go into detail about the horror story of the treatment she'd received from most of her physicians before that point, but needless to say, clinic founder Dr. Isai Castillo could not have done any worse to Marianna than had already been done so we had nothing to lose.

I was quite literally shocked with what I saw when I got to Mexico. I spoke with literally dozens of people who had been sent home to die by their physicians back home, only to have their lives extended by years or even decades by Dr. Castillo. And while the treatments varied from patient to patient, the common ingredient in almost every case was Laetrile, otherwise known as Vitamin B-17.

Sadly, the damage done to Marianna by medical practitioners in North America proved to be cancer's best friend, and after initially restoring much of Marianna's vitality and destroying the tumor from which her cancer had spread, Dr. Castillo's treatments were negated by medical incompetence and quackery, and Marianna died. But even in spite of the fact that Laetrile couldn't stave off the effects of medical abuse and save Marianna, I remain convinced that it is a viable, even essential ingredient in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

Click HERE for BadNursing.com's take on the Laetrile situation in North America. It's a long read, but it quite eloquently illustrates how "big pharma" has fought the use of Laetrile on every front despite there being no proof of it being anywhere near as toxic as currently-approved (and horrendously poisonous) cancer-fighting drugs.

If you plan on contributing money to events such as last Friday's "Stand Up to Cancer" wank-fest, I suggest that you read this article first so that you'll at least know the true attitude of the people to whom you'll be giving your money, and why such events will continue to raise billions of dollars without ever bringing us one inch closer to a cure.