laetrile
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- noun
- /ˈleɪtrɪl/
- Archaic
- I was an early adopter who believed that laetrile did not work.
- laetrile treatment
- drug laetrile
Examples
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She and her husband have mortgaged their home in new jersey to pay for Jean's treatment in this Tijuana laetrile clinic.
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Moss suggests that a Sloan-Kettering researcher, Kanematsu Sugiura, found that laetrile was effective against cancer in mice and that his work was never repeated or refuted.
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Survival for people on laetrile is around 6%.
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By 1976, she was taking laetrile because there was no other treatment for her as the cancer had spread.
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Laetrile doesn't work, but maybe something else would.
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She died in 1977 after taking laetrile for a year (provided by the province and the hospital, although we paid a share).
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Laetrile was once promoted as a laetrile treatment despite the lack of scientific proof of its benefits.
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Many people believed that laetrile could cure cancer, but studies showed it was ineffective.
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Researchers found that laetrile did not improve survival rates for cancer patients.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Laetrile is a modern brand name for a substance related to amygdalin, a chemical that comes from 'bitter almonds'. A helpful way to remember laetrile is that it was sold as an alternative cancer treatment, so the name now refers to that unproven therapy.