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Laetrile

Known as: Cyanophenylmethyl-beta-D-glucopyranosiduronic acid, Mandelonitrile-beta-glucuronide, L-Mandelonitrile-beta-glucuronoside 
Originally, the name laetrile was the contraction of laevo-mandelonitrile glucoside, a cyanogenic glycoside found naturally in some plants. Over the… 
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Amygdalin
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Inaccurate Reporting of the Effects of Laetrile: Mistreatment of Ellison, Byar and Newell (1978) in Professional Papers
There have been only two large-scale clinical studies on the impact of Laetrile (amygdalin) on cancer. In one of them, Ellison… 
2000
2000
Hiding behind agency discretion: the Food and Drug Administration's personal use drug importation policy.
Seatbelts are mandatory, parents are forced to vaccinate their chil­ dren, and infectious people are quarantined: the law will… 
1998
1998
Controversial cancer drug wins local approval in Italy
romeThe southern Italian region of Puglia is to provide the expensive drug somatostatin free to cancer patients, even though the… 
1996
1996
Shark cartilage: the Laetrile of the 1990s.
BOTH LAETRILE and shark cartilage have been presented to the public as effective and nontoxic drugs for malignant disease. While… 
1980
1980
Amygdalin (laetrile) toxicity in rodents.
  • J. Khandekar
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1980
  • Corpus ID: 32523463
To the Editor.— I appreciate the comments made by Dr Stock (242:2287, 1979) concerning our article published inThe Journal(242… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Laetrile on trial.
  • T. Jukes
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1979
  • Corpus ID: 43267856
ON SEPT 27, 1978, Arthur Upton, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), announced that the NCI would conduct a… 
1978
1978
The nutritionally unsound 'nutritional and metabolic antineoplastic diet' of laetrile proponents.
  • V. Herbert
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1978
  • Corpus ID: 40898292
To the Editor.— In Laetrile Case Histories , Richardson and Griffin 1 delineate the "nutritional and metabolic antineoplastic… 
1977
1977
Chicken soup or laetrile--which would you prescribe?
Caroline and Schwartz 1 contend that there are grave dangers in abrupt withdrawal of chicken soup in the treatment of pneumonia… 
1977
1977
Acquiring new information while retaining old ethics.
Scientific medical ethics are founded on the moral principles and stan? dards of reason that are a part of ethics generally, and… 
1965
1965
LAETRILE: A STUDY OF ITS PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES.
A study was made of the composition and biochemical behaviour of the drug, Laetrile, distributed for clinical trial in the United… 
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