Show Are Urged To Shun Hoxsey Cancer Treatment who are considering contacting the Cancer in Texas or are urged by the Utah American Cancer to investigate new findings about For the second a Federal court has determined that the Hoxsey medicines for internal cancer are Last November after a six-week trial in the Federal court at Pa a jury returned a verdict that these in pill were illegally offered as an effective treatment for cancer The public should however that this action does not end the menace of this fake lit mearly means that half a million of the which were seized shortly after the opening of a second Hoxsey Clinic at Por Pa will now be destroyed An injunction is being sought to stop further interstate shipment of the It is intended to use every legal means to pro-I consumers from being victim-I by this worthless In the meantime it is of the that cancer and their who I may be planning to try the Hoxsey treatment at or should acquaint themselves with the facts about it Ml such persons are advised to secure a copy of the Public Warning which was issued by the Food and Drug Administration last They may do this by writing to the Food and Drug Washington D. C. Harry M. Hoxsey has continued to promote his worthless cure for more than 30 notwithstanding numerous local and state court Proceedings under the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act did not appear possible until a 1948 decision of the Supreme Court interpreting the word in the of labeling under the An in junction suit was filed in 1950 and a decree issued by the Federal court at Dallas in Over the years thousands of persons have been deceived by the false claims for the Hoxsey liquid medicines and At the Pittsburgh trial there was testimony concerning persons who may have died of cancer as a result of reliance on the Hoxsey treatment instead of seeking competent medical treatment in the early stages of their The Government's evidence showed that alleged presented by defense attorneys were people who did not have or who were adequately treated before they went to the Portage or died of cancer after they had been treated |