Infrared Saunas
INFRARED SAUNA EFFECTS ON CANCER
Alternative Medicine
Issue 37 September, 2000Hyperthermia (InfraRed) and Electrotherapy By Harvey
Kaltsas, D.O.M.,A.P.Janice wasn't flattered when the German shopkeeper
congratulated her on the baby she looked about to deliver. For despite her
severely swollen abdomen, Janice was not pregnant. She had advanced
multi-drug resistant peritoneal cancer with an accumulation of fluid in her
abdominal cavity. Janice had been told she was in the end stages of an
eight-year battle that had started with ovarian cancer and metastasized into
liver, colon and bladder cancer. Instead of preparing to bring new life into
the world, Janice wanted to die, to put an end to her constant pain,
suffering and hopelessness. Her doctors in the United States had given up on
her. She was frankly sick of it all, ready to let her will ebb away and
surrender. But at a friend's pleading, Janice made one last try at a cure by
going to the Klinik St. Georg in Bad Aibling, Germany, outside of Munich.
The clinic, known to English-speaking people as St. Georg Hospital, nestled
in the foothills of the Alps, treats 2,500 German and 2,500 foreign patients
a year and has developed a widespread, word-of-mouth following.Janice told
me her story three weeks after she stated treatment at the clinic. With a
joyous smile on her beautiful face- -and a stomach now flat- -she
pronounced, "This is my favorite place in the whole world. I just love it
here!" She said she was completely free of pain, and her energy had been
restored. She received treatment according to a standard Klinik St. Georg
cancer protocol: a week of detoxification and the strengthening of the
immune system with diet and nutritional supplements, followed by two weeks
of localized hyperthermia treatment and low-dose chemotherapy. Hyperthermia
involves raising the temperature of the body area surrounding a malignant
tumor, or in many cases, the whole body itself, to levels of heat and for
periods of time lethal to the cancerous tissue but not injurious to other
cells. Friedrich Douwes, M.D., of Klinik St. Georg has great success using a
"synergy of treatments"- with special emphasis on the use of heat from far
InfraRed radiation and direct electrical current as mainstays of his
cancer-killing strategy. In Janice's case, the abdominal area was perused
with the chemotherapy agents cisplatain and carboplatin during hyperthermia
treatment. Because the treatment heated the abdominal cavity to 107 degrees
Fahrenheit (41.7 Celsius) for one hour (IR treatment), the chemotherapy was
able to penetrate the membranes of the cancer cells much more easily. Thus
Janice needed only half the normal dose of chemotherapy and suffered none of
the usual side effects. About two months after treatment began, Janice
informed me that she was continuing to improve and felt better than she had
in years. Shortly thereafter, she no longer showed any sign of disease
whatsoever. Her CA 125 cancer markers (a blood test measurement of the level
of antigens produced by ovarian cancer cells) dropped from above 2,500 to
the 100's and her health is now perfect. Janice says that, from talking with
long-term cancer survivors she has met at Klinik St. George, and from her
own experiences, she is convinced there is hope for permanent remission.
Ideally, before persons with cancer seek chemotherapy, radiation or surgery,
they should consult an alternative or complementary physician such as
Professor Friedrich R. Douwes, M.D., Medical Director and founder of Klinik
St. Georg. As an oncologist who integrates holistic with conventional
approaches, Dr. Douwes is widely renowned for his successes. He has
published numerous papers on alternative cancer treatments and is currently
Vice President of the German Society of Oncology.Clinic patients have the
opportunity to initiate detoxification, nutritional/herbal supplementation
for immune modulation, exercise, positive thinking practices and
psychotherapy, as well as hyperthermia and/or electrotherapy treatment. Dr.
Douwes is bound by the canons of German medical ethics to also advise his
German patients as to standard conventional chemotherapy's, and feels
obligated to inform his international patients of every option open to them.
But if his patients decline chemo, then he becomes their biological
therapist. (ND in America) What a difference this approach is to that of
many conventional oncologists who scare their patients with treatment
imperatives that include threatening prognoses: "If you don't do this
surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, you're going to die in so many months.
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