Book: G. Edward Griffin's World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17.

This book summary asserts that cancer is a metabolic deficiency disease preventable and treatable with Vitamin B17 (Laetrile), similar to how vitamins prevent scurvy and pellagra. The author argues that a powerful pharmaceutical cartel and its allies in the government (like the FDA and National Cancer Institute), organized medicine (such as the AMA and American Cancer Society), and philanthropic foundations actively suppress this truth to protect a multi-billion dollar industry built upon conventional, but allegedly ineffective and toxic, treatments like surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Griffin presents historical case studies, references to research (including experiments at Sloan-Kettering), and global population observations (like the Hunza people) to support the nutritional theory of cancer while exposing what he claims are the political and economic forces driving the opposition to alternative therapies like Laetrile.