Re: Microwave Therapy ... what do you reckon Steph and others?

From: J (day_at_example.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:13:31 -0400

Peter Moran wrote:

> "Greg Heinrich" <hein0050@flinders.edu.au> wrote in message
> news:1905554a.0408092234.19d4ecf2@posting.google.com...
> > On "A Current Affair" last night on Australian television, there
> > was a big story about microwave therapy (administed via the
> > Tronado machine) being used to treat cancer.
> >
> > A respected oncologist in Perth, Dr John Holt, has been using
> > the controversial treatment for several years, and has apparently
> > cured metastatic cancers. Holt is a publicity-shy doctor in his late
> > 70s who is not into self-promotion and who charges a modest amount for
> > the treatment. The treatment consists of an infusion of glucose blocking
> > agent and then an infusion of insulin to lower blood sugar. The patient
> > then receives microwave therapy.
> >
> > There were a number of people with "terminal" cancer who testified
> > they had been cured on A Current Affair. One of these patients also
> > has put her story online here:
> > Page 4 of this document
> > http://www.cancersupportwa.org.au/MediaBoard/newsletter/February2002.pdf
>
> After some Medline and Google searching, this testimonial seems to be the
> only evidence that can be found anywhere as to the effectiveness of his
> methods. I find it odd that a respected doctor having free access to the
> technology for demonstrating cancer cure/remissions, and with already so
> many publications in conventional and 'alternative' journals to his credit,
> should allow such a furor to develop while having so little showing as to
> his treatment's usefulness.
>
> It does not make sense.
>
> Peter Moran

  http://tinyurl.com/3m5bv
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is currently sponsoring three phase II
clinical trials using whole-body heat therapy in combination with chemotherapy
drugs in treating patients with advanced melanoma, advanced sarcoma, and
metastatic and recurring lymphoma."

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00003135
(don't know where the other 2 are) but this one seems to say Phase II
http://cancer.duke.edu/hyperthermia/research.asp

http://www.vci.org/inflamma.htm
These preliminary results show that thermoradiotherapy should be considered as
a treatment modality for inflammatory breast cancer."

J

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