<p>1953 Fitzgerald Report
The 1953 Fitzgerald Report was a highly
controversial and suppressed document from
1953, written by Special Counsel for the Sen-
ate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com-
mittee member Benedict Fitzgerald. His re-
port would reveal a monopolistic effort on be-
half of many organizations to block effective
cancer treatments.
Commissioned by Congressman Charles
Tobey in the 1950s to investigate a possible
conspiracy in orthodox medicine at the time,
Benedict Fitzgerald conducted an extensive
study on the practices of many establish-
ments specializing in cancer issues. These
included:
• American Cancer Society
• American Medical Association
• Anne Fuller Fund, New Haven,
Connecticut
• Babe Ruth Foundation
• Black, Stevenson Cancer Foundation,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• Bondy Fund, New York
• Jonathan Bowman Fund, Madison,
Wisconsin
• Crocker Cancer Research Fund, New York
• Damon Runyon Cancer Fund
• Phllip L. Drosnes and the Drosnes-
Lazenbey Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Dr. F. M. Eugene, Blass Clinic, Long
Valley, New Jersey
• Dr. Gregory Clinic, Pasadena, California
• Hoxsey Cancer Clinic, 4507 Gaston
Avenue, Dallas, Texas
• C. P. Huntington Fund, New York
• International Cancer Research
Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.
• John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
• Dr. Waldo Jones, Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina
• Lakeland Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
• Lincoln Foundation, Medford, Mass.
• Memorial Hospital, New York
• Dr. K. F. Murphy and Dr. Charles Lyman
Lofler Clinic, 25 E. Washington Street,
Chicago, Illinois
• New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, New
York
• Radium Institute of New York
• Henry Rutherford Fund, New York
• Charles F. Spang Foundation, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Government Organizations:
• The Department of Health, Education and
Welfare
• Food and Drug Administration
• Federal Trade Commission
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As Fitzgerald states in the opening para-
graphs of his report, his studies were conduc-
ted to examine the