Thursday, April 7, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7
FDA asks for tests
of cancer treatment
United Press International
HOUSTON — The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
has accused a Houston physician
— who treats cancer patients
with a chemical derived from
human urine — with failing to
follow rules regarding testing of
new drugs.
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski was
asked Tuesday to comply with
FDA regulations in the manu
facture and use of antineoplas-
tons, according to court records.
The U.S. government is request
ing a preliminary and perma
nent injunction, following five
years of investigations by FDA
officials.
No hearing date has been set
for the case, which names Bur
zynski, the Burzynski Cancer
Research Institute, North
American Consultants Ltd. and
Cameron Frye as defendants.
The FDA charged Burzynski
with ignoring requirements for
experimenting on animals with
new drugs and other violations
in the manufacture and ship
ping of antineoplastons.
Burzynski has described his
medical procedure not as a cure
but a treatment for cancer. He
has said his success rate is high,
but figures were not available.
Many of his patients came from
Canada, Michigan and Ohio.
He extracts two chemicals
from human urine, purifies
them and then injects them back
into the bod)^. But the American
Cancer Society says there is no
evidence to document Burzyns-
ki’s claims for successful treat
ment.
Burzynski, a Polish-born
physician who runs the research
center valued at $6 million and
located south of Houston in
Stafford, had been on the re
search staff of Baylor College of
Medicine until 1977, when he
left to set up his project. He said
there are 70 people working at
the facilities’ two locations.
I passed!
staff photo by Eric Evan Lee
Beth Sanders, left, gives a sigh of relief at the
realization she has conquered chemistry. Sanders,
a freshman education major from Mont Belvieu,
and Andrea Seifer, right,
major from Ft. Worth,
answers to the chemistry test held Wednesday.
a freshman geology
were examining the
Lady ‘Robin Hood’ jailed
United Press International
I HOUSTON — A 59-year-oid
I'oman—considered by some to
lea modern-day Robin Hood —
Kith 27 arrests for stealing from
■ouston and San Antonio
lores, has been sentenced to
[rison for three years.
Maria Lerma told a San Anto
nio psychiatrist that she gives the
stolen items to poor people. Ler
ma was sentenced to three years
in prison and fined $5,000 for
trying to steal eight dresses from
the Saks Fifth Avenue store in
Houston.
Lerma originally was sent
enced to 10 years in prison for
the offense. But the defendant
failed to appear in court the day
of the sentencing, and defense
lawyers claimed it was illegal to
sentence someone not present.
A newjudge ordered her to pris
on Tuesday, but dropped seven
years off the sentence.
Since the late 1940s, Lerma
has been arrested 27 times for
shoplifting and convicted at
least 11 times. In 1977, Bexar
County prosecutors accused her
of leading a ring of shoplifters,
whom they said she trained.
They said she once went on a
Houston shopping spree and re
turned with $16,000 in stolen
goods.
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