Laetrile is a substance made from apricot kernels and containing a substantial amount of cyanide. For many years now it has been widely promoted as a treatment for cancer.

Repeated studies in the U.S. have failed to show that laetrile is of any value in cancer treatment, and in some states it is banned.

Yet many cancer victims and their families go to a great deal of trouble and expense to cross the border into Mexico where medical clinics exist to fulfil this need.

Few of us are prepared to accept the diagnosis of an incurable disease and many people will be prepared to try almost anything in an effort to seek a cure.

Despite the previously negative response of laetrile in being effective in cancer, public demand made the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. set up controlled trials at four leading cancer centres.

The British Journal, the Lancet, recently reported that the results were now available and showed laetrile to be totally ineffective.

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