VACCINES LINKED TO PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS (PART 1)

[Guest guest]

> August 12th, 1999

>

> Congressman Dan Burton

> Chairman

> Government Reform Committee

> US House of Representatives

> 2157 Rayburn House Office Building

> Washington, DC 20515

>

> Dear Congressman Burton,

>

> This letter is in support of your Government Reform Committee on Vaccines;

> Finding the Balance Between Public Safety and Personal Choice. After

> speaking with your staff member, Mrs. Beth Clay, I had to forward you the

> appalling story regarding the death of our son, . I have also

> included some of the facts that my husband and I have uncovered since our

> son's death that link vaccination with brain cancer.

>

> On August 10th, 1998 our only child, , was diagnosed with the

most

> common pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma. He was two years old.

Our

> lives were shattered. The next six months became a race against time to

try

> to understand the disease, find the appropriate treatment, and save

.

>

> After two brain operations recovered quickly. We wanted to give

our

> son the most effective cancer therapy possible. After weeks of research,

> many conversations with parents who had children with brain cancer, and

> conversations with doctors from all over the world, we selected the

Burzynski

> Clinic in Houston, Texas. We arrived there and incredibly we were turned

> away. Dr. Burzynski said he was not allowed to accept . I'll

never

> forget it. We sat in an examining room. was smiling at the

doctor.

>

> " Why can't you take ? " I asked Burzynski.

>

> " The FDA dictates who I can and can't accept, " Burzynski said.

>

> Burzynski explained to us that the FDA would only allow him to accept

> children who had suffered through chemotherapy and/or radiation and still

had

> " measurable tumor " left in their brains. hadn't had either of

> these " world class treatments " but already endured two brain operations

(16

> hours of surgery in total) and was tumor free for the moment. He had paid

a

> dear price to be tumor free. His optic nerves had been injured so that

his

> big brown eyes were stuck pointing in opposite directions, he lost the

> ability to cry and laugh and he temporarily lost the ability to walk.

>

> " Please accept my son. He's only two years old. His whole life is in

front

> of him. I know your treatment works. I've spoken to several parents

whose

> children are here. They had malignant brain tumors like but now

> they're alive and well. You have to treat my son, " I begged.

>

> Dr. Burzynski said simply, " I am sorry but I can't. " Burzynski was

saddened but he > was powerless. The FDA had made him turn away many

children just like .

> Chemotherapy was started soon after and died in my arms three

months later.

>

> Because of the FDA, Dr. Burzynski has to turn away over 90% of the cancer

> victims who come to him, many of them children. Burzynski's cancer

therapy

> is non-poisonous to the body and light years ahead of the crude poisonous

> treatments - chemotherapy or radiation - offered by conventional medicine.

> If Burzynski could accept and other children like him his cure

rate

> would increase. It's a clever ploy on the part of the FDA to only allow

Dr.

> Burzynski to accept children who have already had chemotherapy and/or

> radiation and whose cancer has returned. Then nothing can save those

> children. When 's cancer returned while he was on chemotherapy,

he

> died within two weeks.

>

> Who is the FDA really protecting? Why would the FDA not want Dr.

Burzynski

> to have a high cure rate? Dr. Burzynski's therapy is a better product -

it

> is not toxic to the body and it is much more effective against cancer. But

> every year, chemotherapy and radiation gross tens of billions of dollars

for

> the drug companies and the medical establishment. If Dr. Burzynski's

> treatment was allowed to be accessible, imagine the market share it would

> take from chemo and radiation. Imagine the money it would cost the drug

> companies and the cancer doctors. It could literally cost them billions.

>

> Lederle, the same company that produces vaccinations, manufacturers the

> chemotherapy that killed ! was originally diagnosed

with

> medulloblastoma. The cancer that took his life was called leptomeningeal

> sarcoma. How did one cancer turn into another? By the carcinogenic (by

> definition the " DNA changing " ) effects of chemotherapy. In fact, nearly

all

> chemotherapy drugs are listed as " Class I - Known Human Carcinogens " with

the

> FDA. Yet every day hundreds of children are injected with these deadly

> chemicals.

>

> 's immune system was completely destroyed by the chemo and he had

no

> strength to fight the new cancer.

>

> Whether we are talking about childhood vaccinations, therapy for cancer,

> treatments for cardiovascular diseases or any of the other big money

makers,

> the interests, motives and actions of the federal government are

completely

> inseparable with the motives and goals of the drug producers and the AMA

> leadership. After all, we are talking about the exact same people. The

same

> doctors who work for the major drug companies and own stock in those

> corporations take a rotation through the FDA. They will work at this

> governmental " regulatory " body for a few years, make decisions that

protect

> their investments and careers, and then return to the drug companies for

> reportedly bigger salaries and stock options. Over the last twenty years,

> the most powerful people at the FDA have been employees, grant recipients,

> board members or research " affiliates " of the major pharmaceutical

> corporations.

>

> WHY DID ALEXANDER GET CANCER?

> THE VACCINE-RELATED SYMPTOMS

> Why did our strong two-year-old boy have a brain tumor? There is no

cancer

> on either side of our families going back three generations. Both of our

> paternal grandmothers lived to almost 90! Two of 's

> great-grandparents are still alive today.

>

> My husband and I started to review everything we knew about 's

> health. never had been a good sleeper. At four months old,

when

> most babies start to sleep through the night, actually got

worse.

> He used to wake us up at least four times a night and yell. We also

recalled

> an evening when was about seven months old. It was a couple of

> weeks after he had received his latest round of vaccinations shots. He

> started crying very loud and long and he suddenly had convulsions that

lasted

> about five minutes. I held him in my arms. He calmed down but it had

made

> him very tired. The next day I called his pediatrician. I was told that

> little children sometimes get excited and can have spasms. It was nothing

I

> should worry about. A couple months later, would have another

> episode of " spasms. "

>

> After the age of one, began to have eczema outbreaks that would

> cover the back of his legs. I went to the pediatrician. He said that

lots

> of little children have food allergies and he gave me cortisone cream.

The

> cream didn't help very much. I used vitamin E and almond oil, which

seemed

> to help a little.

>

> But why would get cancer? He always had been a good eater. He

was

> very strong and tall for his age- in the top 95 percentile in weight and

> height compared to other children. We didn't live near a nuclear plant, I

> didn't work near pesticides. My husband worked in an office. Since 1992,

we

> had lived in Marina del Rey, a suburb by the beach in Los Angeles. Of

> course, Los Angeles is not known for its fresh air, but none of his little

> friends had cancer.

>

> We started to do research on medulloblastoma - the brain tumor that

> was originally diagnosed with. The tumor had been identified in the

1920's

> by two of the first neurosurgeons, Drs. Percival and Harvey

Cushing.

> They removed medulloblastomas and other brain tumors at the Surgical

Clinic

> of the Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. We read their articles and

> books and studied their graphs on the survival rates of children with

> medulloblastoma. We learned that after " 100% " of the tumor had been

> surgically removed it would grow back within six to twelve months

(assuming

> no additional therapy was attempted). This suggested to us that the

original

> tumor took approximately that same amount of time to grow.

>

> had been very irritable and threw up a lot in November 1997.

The

> pediatrician told me it was a viral infection, a stomach flu.

> often had ear infections around this time. Then in March 1998,

> threw up again and told me he had pain in his tummy. I thought he had

> swallowed a button or little toy. That night, the pediatrician on call

told

> us to go to the emergency room. There, threw up more. The ER

> doctor told us that had a viral infection. The next day, his

> pediatrician told me the same thing. This was five months before he

would

> be diagnosed with a three-inch malignant tumor growing in his brain.

>

> We now understand that sometime between November 1997 and March 1998 the

> tumor began to grow. What had happened to at or before that

time which > > could have led to cancer? I opened 's " medical

file " and suddenly saw all > > the vaccines he received within weeks or

months of these symptoms. My husband

> and I focused on the DPT, the IPV and OPV and Hepatitis B vaccine. What

were

> these vaccines all about? What was in them? And more importantly what

were

> the side effects on an infant's brain?

>

> THE VACCINE CANCER CONNECTION

> After extensively researching the medical literature, we have identified

six

> ways that vaccination may cause cancer, either directly or indirectly.

After

> reading this you may wonder why aren't these subjects being actively

pursued?

> Childhood cancer is on the rise, why aren't the " authorities " conducting

> objective research to determine the risks? The answer is simple - money.

> Nearly all the medical research in this country is funded by drug

companies

> or the U.S. government (viz. taxpayer's money). Both parties have an

> inherent interest in, at a minimum, maintaining the status quo. What

would

> motivate a drug company to pay for a study that demonstrates that their

> products cause cancer? Do they want to commit fiscal suicide? Why would

the

> federal government pay for research that presents the dangers of a program

> that they have ostensibly mandated?

>

> ORTHODOX MEDICINE HAS NO IDEA IF VACCINES ARE CARCINOGENIC

> We will begin with a very basic question - are vaccines carcinogenic? And

> the answer is that nobody knows because no studies have ever been done.

The

> inserts that the vaccine manufacturers must place with each and every vial

of

> vaccine state this fact. Here's a summary of what the vaccine

manufacturers

> publish about their products for the eyes of physicians. This information

is

> taken directly from their inserts as it is published in the Physicians'

Desk

> Reference (PDR, 51st edition, Medical Economics Co. Inc., 1997). The last

> column is of most interest.

>

> VACCINE - MANUFACTURER - BRAND NAME - AGES - STUDIES ON CARCINOGENIC

> POTENTIAL ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURER

> Chickenpox (Varicella) Merck Varivax 12 months and older No

> studies conducted

>

> DTP Lederle Tetramune 2 months to 5 years " Tetramune has

> not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential. "

>

> DTP Lederle Tri-Immunol 2 months to 7 years No studies

> conducted

>

> DTP Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) Tripedia 15 months to 7

> years " Tripedia has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic

> potential. "

>

> DTP Lederle Acel-Immune 17 months to 7 years " Acel-Immune has not been

> evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential "

>

> DTP(whole cell pertussis) Kline Beecham 6 weeks to 7 years

" Animal

> and human studies concerning possible carcinogenic or teratogenic effects

> have not been done. "

>

> Hepatitis A Kline Beecham

> (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux) Havrix Over two years old " Havrix has

not

> been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential. "

>

> Hepatitis B Merck Recombivax " infants " No studies

> conducted

>

> Influenzae type b Haemophilus b conjugate with diphtheria protein

Lederle

> HibTITER 2-71 months " HibTITER has not been evaluated for its

carcinogenic

> or mutagenic potential. "

>

> Influenzae type b Haemphilus b conjugate with tetatus toxoid conjugate

> Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux)ActHIB 2 months to 5 years

> No studies conducted

>

> Japanese encephalitis virus Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux)

> JE-VAX One year and older " No studies have been performed to evaluate

> carcinogenicity or mutagenic potential. "

>

> Measles live Merck Attenuvax 15 months and older No studies

> conducted

>

> Measles, Mumps, Rubella live Merck M-M-R 15 months and older No

> studies conducted

>

> Measles, Rubella (live) Merck M-R-Vax 15 months and older No studies

> conducted

>

> Mumps (live) Merck Mumpsvax 12 months and older No studies

> conducted

>

> Polio (live) Lederle Orimune 6 weeks to 18 years No studies

conducted

>

> Poliovirus (inactivated) Connaught (subsidiary of Pasteur Merieux)

IPOL

> " infants, children and adolescents " " Studies in animals to evaluate

> carcinogenic potential have not been conducted. "

>

> Rubella and mumps (live) Merck Biavax II 12 months and older No

> studies conducted

>

> Rubella (live) Merck Meruvax 12 months to puberty No studies

conducted

>

> None of the vaccines injected into children have ever been tested for

their

> carcinogenic (cancer causing), mutagenic (mutation causing), or

teratogenic

> (developmental malformation causing) potential. Not a single one. Can

these

> chemicals that are injected into healthy children cause cancer? The

people

> manufacturing the vaccines (the drug companies) and the bureaucrats

mandating

> the drugs can't say because no studies have ever been conducted.

>

> In summary, federal and state governments are mandating that infants and

> children swallow and be injected with substances that have never been

tested

> for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or developmental

malformations.

> In the meantime, the drug companies are grossing billions of dollars on

sales

> of these potentially carcinogenic products.

>

> HOW VACCINATION CAN CAUSE OR CONTRIBUTE TO CANCER

>

> VACCINES CONTAIN KNOWN CARCINOGENS

>

> If you call the American Association of Pediatrics and ask them what is

the

> safe dosage of mercury derivatives, aluminum and formaldehyde to be

injected

> into an infant, they may suspect child abuse. After they have calmed

down,

> they will explain that there is no safe dosage because these are all

> potentially carcinogenic substances. But mercury derivatives, aluminum

and

> formaldehyde are ingredients in most vaccines. How is it possible that

> they're safe? The answers depends on who is injecting them. If you or I

> inject our child with mercury or formaldehyde we are going to jail. But

if a

> drug company and a doctor inject the same chemicals then they are

perfectly

> safe.

>

> VIRUSES CAN BE CARCINOGENIC

> Vaccines are comprised of viruses and viruses can be carcinogenic.

According

> to mainstream science a number of viruses with oncogenic (cancer causing)

> properties have been identified over the last twenty years. The

information

> below comes from the chapter entitled " Etiology of Cancer: Viruses " from

the

> 5th edition of the book - Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology. (One

of

> the book's editors is Dr. De Vita, Jr., former director of the

> National Cancer Institute.) This chapter lists various viruses and the

> cancers associated with them:

>

> Virus And the Human Cancer associated with them:

> Hepatitis B Hepatocellular carcinoma

> Hepatitis C Hepatocellular carcinoma

> Epstein-Barr Burkitt's lymphoma

> Epstein-Barr Hodgkins disease

> Epstein-Barr Immunoblastic lymphoma

> HPV-16, HPV-18, 33, 39 Anogenital cancers and some upper

airway cancers

> HPV-5, HPV-8, HPV-17 Skin cancer

> BK, JC Brain tumors (possible), Mesotheliomas

(possible)

> HTLV-I, Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma

> HTLV-II Hairy cell leukemia

>

> Murnane Poeschla E, Wong-Staal F. Etiology of Cancer: Viruses, p.169,

Cancer:

> Principles & Practice of Oncology; Fifth Edition, edited by V. T. DeVita

Jr.,

> S. Hellman, S. A. Rosenberg. Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia,

1997.

>

> The association between some viruses and some cancers is a well-accepted

> medical fact. Are there other viruses that may cause or lead to other

> cancers? Of course. There are literally tens of thousands of viruses,

but

> only a small percentage has been tested for their ability to cause cancer.

> In fact, some viruses use a " team approach. " One virus by itself may be

> relatively benign but when it is combined with other viruses it " helps "

the

> first one cause cancer. These viruses are literally called " helper

viruses. "

> How many various combinations of different viruses can lead to cancer, no

> one knows. But when you consider that:

>

> Ø Children are injected with bacteria (that contain viruses)

> Ø Children are injected with viruses themselves as per the vaccine

> Ø The bacteria and virus vaccines are grown on animal tissue (i.e.

monkeys,

> eggs, etc.) that also contain their own population of viruses

>

> There is no way of knowing what viral combinations have formed and what is

in

> the final " soup " that will be injected into a healthy infant. The

toxicity

> test that vaccine manufacturers use is as crude as can be imagined. They

> inject mice with the vaccines and if a given percentage still eat and put

on

> weight than the vaccine is pronounced safe for children. Unbelievable!

>

> VACCINES, BRAIN INJURY AND BRAIN CANCER

> Oncologists and neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, St. Jude

> Children's Research Hospital and UCLA Medical Center told us that

pediatric

> brain cancer is on the rise? Why? Why are more and more children getting

> cancer in their brains? Could it be due to the various types of brain

> injuries caused by vaccines?

>

> The fact that vaccines can cause temporary or permanent brain damage is an

> established fact. Even the manufacturers admit it. For example, the

> manufacturer of one of the DTP vaccines (Lederle), warns pediatricians on

> their insert that their vaccine can cause " neurological complications such

as

> convulsions, encephalopathy, and various mono and polyneuropathies

including

> Guillian-Barre Syndrome.Permanent neurological disability and death have

been

> reported. "

>

> - Physicians' Desk Reference, 51st edition, Medical Economics Co. Inc.,

1997

>

> There is an abundance of medical literature going back one hundred years

that

> suggests a connection between cancer and chronic injury caused by viruses

or

> bacteria. It appears that cancers have a tendency to form in organs that

are

> injured or irritated by viral or bacterial infections. For example, it is

> well known that people who have various forms of hepatitis (viruses that

> infect the liver) are at a much higher risk for liver cancer. This fact

was

> presented in a recent article published in the European Journal of Cancer

> Prevention. The authors wrote, " Chronic disease conditions.are well

> established as risk factors for cancer development. These may be due to

> viruses (for example, in the case of hepatitis and liver cancer),

bacterial

> infections, parasite infestation or physical trauma. "

>

> - , MA, Tsuda H, Chronically elevated proliferation as a risk factor

for

> neoplasia. European Journal of cancer Prevention 1988 October; 7(5):

353-385.

>

> The same line of reasoning suggests that a viral infection of the brain

> (which vaccines are known to cause) can lead to cancer of the brain. It's

a

> rational conclusion and a reasonable question to ask, but no one from the

> drug companies or the federal government is asking it.

>

> SIMIAN VIRUS 40

> In the 1950's and 1960's the polio vaccine injected into millions of

children

> contained an unexpected guest - another virus that was growing on the same

> monkey kidney cells in which the vaccine was being grown. This virus was

> named Simian Virus 40 (SV40) because it was the 40th simian or monkey

virus

> found. Unfortunately, this virus was also found to cause cancer. The

> vaccine manufacturers changed their monkeys (African green monkeys) but

this

> wasn't enough. Today SV40 is found in many human cancers including many

> pediatric brain cancers. Coincidence? I don't think so. It turns out

that

> SV40 can be passed horizontally (i.e. between father and mother) and

> vertically (i.e. between mother and child). In fact, SV40 is often

> associated with medulloblastoma, the most prevalent pediatric brain tumor.

> When scientists injected young hamsters with Simian Virus 40 over 80%

> developed brain cancers - all of which were medulloblastomas. Here are a

few

> of the studies that have looked at SV40 and human cancers:

>

> Ø In 1979, Drs. Jaqueline Farwell, Dohrmann, Lorraine Marrett and

J.

> Wister Meigs wrote a paper entitled: Effect of SV40 Virus-Contaminated

Polio

> Vaccine on the Incidence and Type of CNS Neoplasms in Children: A

> Population-Based Study, in which they found a substantial increase in

> childhood brain tumors, especially medulloblastoma, when the mothers had

been

> inoculated with vaccines containing SV40. They wrote:

>

> " In the late 1950's and early 1960's, an increase occurred in the number

of

> central nervous system tumors diagnosed in children as recorded in the

> Connecticut Tumor Registry. From 1955 to 1961, polio vaccine was used in

> Connecticut, which subsequently was found to contain the virus SV40. In

> animal models SV40 has produced central nervous system tumors.

particularly

> striking rises in gliomas (astrocytoma, spongiblastoma, and glioblastoma

> multiforme) and medulloblastomas were noted in children born during

> 1956-1962.Among medulloblastoma patients, 10 of 15 were exposed to SV40.

> This rate of exposure is high and significantly greater than among

controls

> (children without brain tumors).SV40 may selectively induce malignant

> tumors.In summary we demonstrate a strong association between exposure to

> SV40 and the development of medulloblastoma.(and) the occurrence of

gliomas. "

>

> Ø In 1987, Drs. Roush, Theodore Holford, Schymura and Colin

> White of the Yale University School of Medicine published a book on cancer

> risks. In it they wrote:

>

> " Infectious agents have been strongly associated with childhood brain

tumors.

> An excess of central nervous system malignancies occurred in a cohort (a

> group) of offspring (children) whose mothers were inadvertently exposed to

> polio vaccine contaminated by Simian Virus 40 (SV40). Medulloblastomas

bore

> the strongest relationship to the contaminated vaccine. "

>

> - Roush G, Holford TR, Schymura MJ, White C, Cancer Risk and Incidence

> Trends: The Connecticut Perspective, Brain, Cerebral Meninges, and Cranial

> Nerves, Ages 0-19, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Yale

> University School of Medicine; The Hemisphere Publishing Company, 1987.

>

> Ø In this 1995 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer

> Institute, SV40 was again found in various human brain tumors but not in

any

> healthy brain tissue. The researchers wrote:

>

> " .we found SV40 DNA sequences in five of six choroid plexus papillomas,

eight

> of eleven ependymomas, three of seven astrocytomas.None of the 13 normal

> brain tissues were positive for SV40 DNA. "

>

> - i F, et. al., Human Brain Tumors and Simian Virus 40, Journal of

the

> National Cancer Institute, September 6, Volume 87, 1995

>

> Ø In 1997, when researchers looked for SV40 in other human cancers such as

> mesotheliomas (a kind of lung cancer), and osteosarcomas (a kind of bone

> cancer that kills children and adults), they found them. The doctors

wrote:

>

> " We decided to test human mesotheliomas and osteosarcomas for SV40 based

> on.the enormous increase in the incidence of mesotheliomas in the second

half

> of this century which coincided with the inadvertent inoculation of

millions

> of people with SV40 contaminated polio vaccines. SV40 or closely related

DNA

> sequences are present in specific types of human tumors. "

>

> - Rozzo P, et. al, Evidence for and implications of SV40-like sequences in

> human mesotheliomas and osteosarcomas; Conference: SV40 a Possible Human

> Polyomavirus National Institute of Health January 27 and 28, 1997

>

> Ø This paper, like the previous one, was presented at an SV40 seminar at

the

> National Institute of Health in 1997. In it the authors state that SV40

is

> found in most brain cancers and that it can spread from one generation to

the

> next. They also mention that more people who are vaccinated have brain

> tumors versus those who have not been vaccinated. They wrote:

>

> " SV40 amplification products were detected at high prevalence in primary

> human brain tumors: 83% of choroid plexus papillomas, 75% ependymomas, 47%

> astrocytomas, and 37% glioblastomas.35% osteosarcomas, and Ewing's

> tumors.These results indicate that SV40 is associated with human brain and

> bone neoplasms (cancers).SV40 infection (may be spread) by blood

transfusion

> and sexual transmission in the human population.

>

> " .a viral co-factor should be taken into consideration as a possible cause

> of. human brain and bone tumors.a higher incidence of brain neoplasms

(brain

> cancers) was noted in cohorts (groups) of vaccinated persons. In this as

> well as in other studies, a high prevalence of SV40 was detected in brain

and

> bone tumors that affect early childhood. "

>

> - i F, et. al, Simian Virus footprints in normal human tissues,

brain

> and bone tumors of different histotypes; Conference: SV40 a Possible Human

> Polyomavirus - National Institute of Health January 27 and 28, 1997

>

> Ø And in this most recent study published in January of this year,

> researchers found SV40 in all the brain tumors they examined. They wrote:

>

> " We found SV40.sequences in all brain tumor types investigated. High

> frequencies were found in low-grade astrocytomas, anaplastic astrocytomas

and

> secondary glioblastomas (59%).Presence of viral DNA was also found in

> pediatric brain tumors. "

>

> - Huang H, et al, Identification in human brain tumors of DNA sequences

> specific for SV40 large T antigen, Brain Pathology, January 9, 1999

>

> So here's the obvious question - Is the SV40 from the 1950's and 1960's

back

> to haunt us? Are parents passing cancer on to their children?

>

> (Continued on Part II)