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In 1950 after many years of research, Dr. Ernest T. Krebs, Jr., a biochemist and a researcher who first discovered B-15, isolated a new vitamin that he numbered B-17 and called laetrile (Griffin, 1997). Laetrile, also known as Amygdalin or nitriloside, is a natural chemotherapeutic agent found in over 1,200 plants, particularly in the seeds of common fruits such as apricots, peaches, plums, and apples. In the 1970s, laetrile started gaining popularity as an anticancer agent and a few years later, more than 70000 people reported to have been treated with laetrile (Wong, 2008).
Today, laetrile occupies a position on the "front lines" of alternative cancer therapies. It is found that laetrile is effective on people that have active cancer, but that is not its only function. Its non-toxicity permits its use indefinitely in the prevention of cancer and metastasis. Somehow, a highly publicized clinical trial conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1981, failed to prove that laetrile was ineffective and toxic (“Study Says Laetrile”, 1981).
Today, laetrile occupies a position on the "front lines" of alternative cancer therapies. It is found that laetrile is effective on people that have active cancer, but that is not its only function. Its non-toxicity permits its use indefinitely in the prevention of cancer and metastasis. Somehow, a highly publicized clinical trial conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1981, failed to prove that laetrile was ineffective and toxic (“Study Says Laetrile”, 1981).
