Second Opinion: Laetrile
at Sloan-Kettering

Cover-Up Of Promising Cancer Treatment (2014 Documentary)
Also Known As: Second Opinion - The Lie of America's War on Cancer
Also Known As: Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering

The story of a young science-writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who risked everything by blowing the whistle on a massive cover-up involving a promising cancer therapy.

This film is an insider's account from the 70's at a well known NYC cancer research hospital exposing the truth (using the hospital's own records) behind how the profit system has corrupted the search for finding a "cure" for cancer. A promising treatment was swept under the rug and the scientist who found it (co-founder of chemotherapy) was forced to lie about his treatment. The treatment was not the "cure", but it worked remarkably well and very cheap. The problem was it was "very cheap". Even though the movie is centered around 1 character and it's almost entirely a narrative, the topic and the evidence is so damning, it's exciting. It's a knock-out punch guilty as charged for the hospital. Definitely recommended to all.

More detailed description: The War On Cancer, launched in the early 1970s, set the stage for a massive influx of new ideas in fighting the disease of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, America's leading cancer research center at the time, was assigned the task of testing an unconventional therapy called "Laetrile" in an effort to curb the public's "false hope" in the alleged "quack" therapy. Ralph W. Moss PhD, a young and eager science writer, was hired by Sloan-Kettering's public relations department in 1974 to help brief the American public on the center's contribution to the War On Cancer. One of his first assignments was to write a biography about Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, one of the Center's oldest and leading research scientists as well as the original co-inventor of chemotherapy. While meeting with this iconic scientist to pen a biography on his 60-year career at Sloan-Kettering, Moss discovered that Sugiura had been studying this "quack remedy" in laboratory mice, and with unexpectedly positive results. Shocked and bewildered, Moss reported back to his superiors what he had discovered, only to be met with backlash and denial from Sloan-Kettering's leaders on what their own leading scientist had found. Fueled by respect and admiration for Sugiura-Ralph W. Moss attempted to publicize the truth about Sugiura's findings. And after all diplomatic approaches failed, Moss lived a double life, working as a loyal employee at Sloan-Kettering while also recruiting fellow employees to help anonymously leak this information to the American public-through a newly formed underground organization they called-"Second Opinion".