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     poison was Dr. Gold's plan of attack. As he explains, "Each of these 
processes [the
     tumor invasion of vital organs and cachexia] has its own metabolic 
machinery, each
     is amenable to its own therapy, and each is to some degree functionally
     interdependent on the other. In the interest of treating the totality of 
malignant
     disease, each of these processes warrants intervention. Such an 
approach, dealing
     with both major underpinnings of the cancerous process mitogenic and
     metabolic affords the greatest promise for eliciting long-term, 
symptom-free
     survival and the potential for disease eradication."
     But what causes cachexia? Cancer cells gobble up sugar ten to fifteen 
times more
     than normal cells do. The sugar consumed by the cancer cells is 
generated mainly
     from the liver, which converts lactic acid into glucose. (Normal cells 
are far more
     efficient users of glucose, which they derive from the food we eat, not 
from lactic
     acid.) When cancer cells use sugar (glucose) as fuel, they only 
partially metabolize it.
     Lactic acid the waste product of this incomplete combustion  spills into 
the
     blood and is taken up by the liver. The liver then recycles the lactic 
acid (and other
     breakdown products) back into glucose, and the sugar is consumed in
     ever-increasing amounts by voracious cancer cells. The result is a 
vicious cycle,
     what Dr. Gold calls a "sick relationship" between the liver and the 
cancer. The
     patient's healthy cells starve while the cancer cells grow vigorously. 
Some healthy
     cells even dissolve to feed the growing tumor.
     To break this sick relationship, Gold reasoned, all he needed was to 
find a safe,
     nontoxic drug that inhibits g1uconeogenesis ( the liver's recycling of 
lactic acid back
     into glucose). In 1968, he outlined his theory in an article published 
in Oncology.
     "The silence was deafening,he recalls.
     A year later, by a remarkable coincidence, Gold heard biochemist Paul 
Ray deliver
     a paper explaining that hydrazine sulfate could shut down the enzyme 
necessary for
     the production of glucose from lactic acid. Gold had chanced upon an 
eminently
     logical way of starving cancer. He immediately tested hydrazine sulfate 
on mice and
     found that in accord with his theory, the drug inhibited both 
gluconeogenesis and
     tumor growth.
     Over the years, many dramatic remissions in patients on hydrazine 
sulfate therapy
     have been reported. In one case, a sixty-two-year-old woman with widely
     disseminated cancer of the cervix, in a very debilitated condition, was 
put on the
     drug. After one week, a secondary tumor the size of an orange had 
completely
     disappeared, much to the amazement of the woman's doctors, and neck 
nodes had
     become markedly smaller. After three weeks on the therapy, the patient 
had gained
     weight and was active and in good spirits. The woman was discharged from 
the
     hospital a short time later.
     In 1987, Erna Kamen, a sixty-three-year-old lung cancer patient, was 
administered
     hydrazine sulfate after her discharge from a Sarasota, Florida, 
hospital. "Basically,
     my mother was sent home to die," says Jeff Kamen, an Emmy-winning 
television
     reporter. "She'd lost a significant amount of weight by then, and she 
had no appetite
     and virtually no will to do anything." A doctor had told Jeff's father, 
Ira Kamen, that
     hydrazine sulfate offered at least "a shot in the dark." So one Monday 
in August
     1987, a home nurse gave Mrs. Kamen one hydrazine sulfate pill shortly 
before
     serving lunch. "On Tuesday morning," recalls Jeff, "there was a 
commotion in the
     house. My mother had risen from her bed like the phoenix rising from the 
ashes. She
     was demanding that the nurse bring her downstairs so that she could have 
breakfast
     with me.... When people you love get into this kind of facedown with 
death, you're
     just incredibly grateful for each moment."
     As Jeff describes his mother's recovery, "her searing pain was gone; her 
appetite
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