Extract from the Daily Mail 9/10/96

Former Royal Ballet School dancer Kathy Keeton believes her life has been saved by a fine white crystal salt which costs less than a packet of headache tablets. The remarkable cancer 'cure' Hydrazine Sulfate, is so cheap because it can be manufactured industrially 'by the carload'. It was originally a fuel component for military rockets.

It is the work of Dr. Joseph Gold, a 66-year-old research doctor, who sees himself as fighting a David and Goliath battle against the pharmaceutical giants who might not be interested in a cheap treatment which gives them no profit. 'Come up with something expensive Joe,' was he says, the synical response of one distinquised doctor colleague. Yet Dr. Gold's treatment won't go away -- and Kathy Keeton, wife of Bob Guccione, the millionaire publisher of Penthouse magazine, say that she is living proof that it works.

Kathy, 55, put her life in Dr. Gold's hands when breast cancer spread to her liver, stomach and pancreas. Doctors gave her six weeks to live. That was 15 months ago. Since then her tumors have nearly all been obliterated, she is back to her normal weight, eats most foods and is back 'driving everybody mad' at the publishing empire where she co-founded the science fiction and fact magazines Omni and Longevity.

`My recovery from cancer is all due to meeting Dr. Gold and deciding to fight it with two of hydrazine sulfate tablets a day,' she says. `At one time, at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, wher they gave me a fatal prognosis, I had four doctors sitting on my bed begging me to have chemotherapy. `But a friend had warned me off. Some of the effects of chemo. It can get rid of the tumours but, in doing so, it can destroy the immune system. If the tumors recur, you have nothing with which to fight them.' Her decision to pin her hopes of cheating death on the controversial drug brought raised eyebrows among her doctors. But the results soon began to impress them and they closely consulted Dr. Gold.

`I have come through the treatment with stunning results,' says Kathy. `I was and ideal candidate as I don't drink alcohol, take tranquillisers or sleeping pills.' `All of my tumors have shrunk or disappeared. I have three tiny ones in my liver still but there were six originally. Life is back to normal.' Dr. Gold says, `Kathy did not play safe and go with chemotherapy. She used her head and not her heart' And her skilful managing of her case resulted in her longterm survival.

`Lets face it, the first prognosis was that she should have died more than a year ago.' Dr. Gold has been campaigning to win approval for his drug for 30 years. He has come up against formidable opponents in America's National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration, which refuses to recognise it, but he has won battles. One was the adoption of the drug in Russia, where thousands of patients had their cancer stabilized and tumors reduced or eradicated.

Dr. Gold, who talks of the drug with evangelical fevour at his headquarters, the Syracuse Cancer Research Institute says, `Hydrazine sulfate is a mass-produced substance. A researcher could buy a 11 pound jar for 5 pounds and that will contain anywhere from 50 to 100,000 doses.' The answer to the puzzle of why rocket fuel should help lies with cachexia, the frightening weight loss and debiliation that accompanies the march of cancer in the body. Despite the fact that 70 percent of cancer patients still die of cachexia-caused problems, the condition had received little medical attention in the sixties. `In the late sixties, I was trying to pinpoint the exact enzyme system in the liver which needed to be inhibited in order for cachexda to be reversed,' says Dr. Gold. `Then I heard a paper presented at a conference in the Midwest about how hydrazine sulfate could inhibit enzyme systems. Five years of pre-medical studies followed in which I watched the drug inhibit cachexda in mice and rats with cancer. The first human tests were carried out in New York in 1973. Several terminally patient turned around and got well again. `It was a chemical way to block the abnormal process in the body that causes cachexia, tumour-triggered starvation.

With cachexia, the energy pools in the body are being depleted trying to feed the tumors and the body starts to consume itself until the patient dies. Dr. Gold is convinced his drug stops this process -- but so far trials have been too small a sample to satisify the profession's demands. He believes it is the cheapness of the drug that has prevented pharmaceutical companies investigating it fully.

Professor Michael Tisdale, professor of cancer biochemistry at Aston University, Birmingham, knows of the hydrazine sulfate treatment for cancer. `We have tested some of the American experimental treatments but not this one,' he says. `I have met Dr. Gold and am very sympathetic to his problems, but no patient here can be treated officially with this chemical because it is not licensed.' `I myself have developed a treatment based on fatty acid from fish and that faces chemical trials this month. I don't think we will look into hydrazine sulfate until it comes through positive trials int eh States.'

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