HEALTH
REVIEW
What Went Wrong:
The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial
of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer
by Nicholas Gonzalez, MD
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This book is alternately
depressing, infuriating
and inspiring. It is the
exhaustively documented
story of a clinical trial of a
promising enzymatic therapy
for treating highly lethal
pancreatic cancer.
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he trial compared a treatment
Dr. Gonzalez had been using with
major success in his private practice against a chemotherapeutic
agent, Gemzar.
The trial was so mismanaged and
stacked against Dr. Gonzalez’s
protocol that after more than 10 years of futile
struggle, this promising approach has been kept
out of the mainstream oncological arsenal. While
Dr. Gonzalez may have written this book to set the
record straight about the chain of events, and it
gives way more detailed information than anyone
but a lawyer would want to read, it’s real importance is in highlighting the unholy and incestuous
alliance between Big Pharma and the governmental institutions charged with funding medical research that continues unabated.
This is tragically a story that has been repeated
over and over since the early 1900’s, and because
it is so unthinkable that our own government and
academics would pervert the research process to
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protect monied interests, we passively allow this
to continue. Dr. Gonzalez ends his book with an angry appeal to true researchers to stay away from
tainted funds and to preserve their integrity for the
good of mankind. He himself continues to use his
protocol and save patients every day. A sobering
tale, indeed.
Reviewed by Miriam Knight