Electric Fields Kill Tumors
August 8th, 2007For those of you who know that this news is about 75 years old, don’t hold your breath waiting to read the word Rife anywhere in this article. Since there is so much snake oil being pushed as Rife technology, I suppose it’s a good thing that this company is finally forcing the medical establishment into a corner.
Is it exactly Rife technology? I don’t know. What I do know is that the underlying mechanism was identified by Rife three quarters of a century ago. Whether these guys wish to acknowledge that or not is their business. My guess is that they won’t/can’t mention it because of the industry that has sprung up around suppressing viable alternative cancer therapies.
The fact that I have to fill in the blanks for a publication like MIT Technology Review is pretty terrifying. What else have they forgotten to mention?
Via: MIT Technology Review:
An Israeli company is conducting human tests for a device that uses weak electric fields to kill cancer cells but has no effect on normal cells. The device is in late-stage clinical trials in the United States and Europe for glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer. It is also being tested in Europe for its effectiveness against breast cancer. In the lab and in animal testing, treatment with electric fields has killed cancer cells of every type tested.
The electric-field therapy was developed by Yoram Palti, a physiologist at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, who founded the company NovoCure to commercialize the treatment. Palti’s electric fields cause dividing cancer cells to explode while having no significant impact on normal tissues. The range of electric fields generated by the device harms only dividing cells. And since normal cells divide at a much slower rate than cancer cells, the electric fields target cancer cells. “An Achilles’ heel of cancer cells is that they have to divide,” says Herbert Engelhard, chief of neuro-oncology in the department of neurosurgery at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Even after chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, about 85 to 90 percent of glioblastoma patients’ cancer still progresses, and their survival rates are low, says Engelhard. He has about 10 glioblastoma patients enrolled in the trial, which is testing the unusual treatment in patients for whom all other approaches have failed. Engelhard says that the results are encouraging but that it’s too early to comment on the treatment’s efficacy.
The electric fields’ different effects on normal and dividing cells mostly have to do with geometry. A dividing cell has what Palti calls “an hourglass shape rather than a round shape.” The electric field generated by the NovoCure device passes around and through round cells in a uniform fashion. But the narrow neck that pinches in at the center of a dividing cell acts like a lens, concentrating the electric field at this point. This non-uniform electric field wreaks havoc on dividing cells. The electric field tears apart important biological molecules, such as DNA and the structural proteins that pull the chromosomes into place during cell division. Dividing cells simply “disintegrate,” says Palti.
Palti, who for years has been studying the effect of electric fields on cancer and normal cells, says that he has verified this mechanism in computer models and experiments in the lab. “The physics are solid,” says David Cohen, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School.
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The device itself costs only about $1,000 to manufacture…
Probably Rife didn’t want to sell out to big biz, so they were marginalized. Anyway, it’s good that such a simple principle can be used to such a powerful effect. It’s really an outstanding idea. To me, it seems like one of those things that you should have thought of all along once you see it. I’m an E.E., but it never really occurred to me that you could do this. But it makes a lot of sense, actually.
What frequency is the field which is used? Does that suggest anything about people concerned about power lines?
Todd Richards, a MRI physiologist working with MS patients (and helped a nurse carry out trials for a viable drug combination she developed) was concerned about headaches from his computer and was putting copper shielding around it. He also was doing something I don’t understand with people who have migraines. He was able to determined a frequency, (a radio frequency?) from their brain under MRI, and then give them a device tuned to this frequency that they wore around their necks
Sounds like they probably get a free course of tDCS in the process.
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/tDCS/
The link is work safe and generally inoffensive, for those rightly concerned that rotten is hosting it.
The Rife technology fascinates me. The F.B.I. hauled Wilhelm Reich off to prison, years ago for his work on electronic fields and how these fields healed cancer, the planet, etc.
http://www.orgonelab.org/wrhistory.htm
I studied under was a participant in several of Pierakos’s workshops. Pierakos was a student of Reich’s. Look at the stuff he wrote on:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1/105-4990706-0657230?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=john%20pierrakos&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ajohn%20pierrakos&page=1
Anyways,with my personal agony re cancer in my family, and a mother who lives with pain who cannot tell you where it is except for the look on her face, I found this device at my chiropractor’s office:
http://soundvitality.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=79.
I bought it. This machine is incredible in that it uses sound waves- and a fuzzy logic to heal. The infratronic also healed the horse that was about to be put down from his injuries in the Kentucky Derby.
I sure wish I had the thousand bucks to build a Rife machine.
No question re this technology here. Chemotherapy and radiation are such monsters when it comes to dealing with cancer. I for one think that Rife and Reich and others are more on target re a cancer cure than the rest of the spooks.
You know what I hate about reading about stuff like this? The fact that since I’m not a “scientist,” I cannot discern whether or not something like this would actually work. Ditto for everything else in this marginalized science genre. I mean, wouldn’t it be great if you could build relatively inexpensive diagnostics equipment and then administer cures? Sure it would, but live in place where you have to go to “experts” to get the cure, whether it’s a cure or not.
It would be great if people with scientific know-how put up sites that made it easy to build and test this stuff, do experiments with it, so that the average person could try and replicate them.
Eileen, I lost both my mother and sister to cancer so I can relate. It’s a horrible thing to see loved ones waste away looking like concentration camp victims. What really gets my goat is how the medical establishment has driven people to jail or out of the country because, to be quite frank, they, like most mafia, don’t want the competition. I’ve found stuff through research that have the potential to cure without ever resorting to the horrors of chemotherapy etc. And I’ve became very suspicious of doctors in the cancer field when I found that everyone I knew, who’d been cut open by them at the “discovery” stage, died within 4-6 weeks. The longest was several months but he was a tough old bird. Exposure to the air? I don’t have any answers to that but its damn circumstantial. Needless to say I’m not letting them “practice” medicine on ME.
DR Fix,
That is EXACTLY what happened to my sister re her cancer from asbestos. Opened her up to see what was going on and she was a goner a few months later. Same with Dad and his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Dad much older, didn’t want to fight it. Sister, another story entirely. And then my mom and her strokes.
The happy part of this story is that I am one Pissed Off individual.The rage I have inside of me will and has driven me to drinkin’ but then other good things too.
I hope to avenge my loved ones deaths, and help my Mom by learning how to provide healing to others. Christos Voskres (christ has risen in slovak), I am considering, at the ripe young age of 52, of going to nursing school – armed with my Rife machine!!! I hear the Biology tests are a bitch.
It’s a racket, Eileen. Like the tax or prison “industries” there damn sure is a medical one. Presently we have friends in Japan undergoing treatment and the sister of other who just had breast cancer surgery. The miracle in the later has been that they have found no trace of it now… and she’d been at the most severe level there was, in Japan at least. Pretty much was a goner and this was indeed good news!
I was never a tree-hugging environmentalist in the past, but as I’ve grown older, and hopefully wiser, I’ve come to see that Mother Nature holds more answers than we realize. Must be why Big Pharma is constantly trying to patent, for big bucks, what sits for free out in the wild.
And no matter the age, I just turned 45 this year, I think we have to start where we are. And I wouldn’t let Biology classes scare you. Based on the quality of students I’ve run across in College, the younger ones at least, you may well be nursings last hope.
To add to the previous comment, I am a biological scientist (although maybe not a great one), and the science behind it could be solid. Electroporation is a very common technique to get nucleic material (DNA) into cells, so it seems quite possible that at the right power/frequency it could be used without damage to “normal” cells.
Additionally, although I had never heard of Rife technology before, I did a quick search, and it seems that he was using vibration (sound) frequency to disrupt a virus he seemed to think was causing cancer. So that would be different than sending electricity through tissue.
Just like when a building (or anything) goes into resonance (shakes at a certain frequency) it tends to get destroyed, it could be possible that sending a certain frequency of wave through tissue could destroy whatever had that same resonance frequency.
Please note how much I say “Could” & “may”. I have no idea if any of these claims do work, but the science behind them sounds quite solid to me.
Dr Hulda R. Clark, a Canadian Research Scientist has publish several books since the early 1990’s.
The titles are:
The Cure For All Diseases
The Cure For Cancers
The Cure for AIDS
She has been sued by the US Govt Food and Drug Administration. She won in US Federal Court.
The US Federal Trade Commission then sued her in an effort to stop sales of her books. She won that case also.
US Senators Robert Bennett (R) Utah and Orrin Hatch (R) Utah and Governor Jon Huntsman (R) Utah are doing their best to keep this information from the sufferng public to protect the profits of the drug and medical cartels.