Dr. Cornelius Rhoads had a history that would have made the Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele proud, "Cornelius Rhoads, a pathologist from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, purposely infects human test subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells; 13 of them die." He had openly expressed...in writing... his desire to kill all Puerto Ricans.
He later zapped soldiers with radiation to study it's effect.
Rhoads saw a pot of gold in chemo therapy and experimented with mustard gas on cancer patients.
But neither of those might be his greatest crime. While at Sloan-Kettering, Rhoads promised that S-K would be the place where a cure for cancer would be discovered. He also spoke of the pot of gold chemo would bring. Then he learned of Dr. Revici's fantastic success in curing cancer - not at Sloan Kettering!
That could not stand. Rhoads' close friend Chauncey Leake, who was the Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas, shortly thereafter wrote a poison pen letter to JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) which was published, kicking off a life long series of attacks against Revici.
That letter set the tone and, in effect, was the first blow that killed the cure.
A "well placed missive." Indeed.
Rhoads actions have contributed heavily to perhaps 10 million cancer patients suffering mightily and unnecessarily. That's about equal to what Mengele's boss achieved.
The best to you.
Kelley Eidem
Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!
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Kelley Eidem is the author of The Doctor Who Cures Cancer and It's Not Just For Sex.
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