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November 2004 Newsletter
- Dr Michael Tait The combination of Microwaves therapy with photodynamic therapy (Refer
to PDT in the site) is an exciting contribution to the science of
cancer treatment by a non invasive and alternative method. It offers
a mass of knowledge and experience learnt from researchers such as
Dr.John Holt in Perth, Western Australia and the researchers of Radachlorin
and photodynamic therapy in Russia. Most recently research from the
Moss report indicated that PDT alone produced a 15% remission in
dogs with cancer but if combined with sauna then the remission was
a staggering 65% and that is why the Fountain of Life © combines the treatmentsThe treatment is over a three week period and consists of alternating days of treatment with ultra high frequency microwave and photodynamic therapy. Contraindications to treatment are uncommon but do include the following: 1. Fluid collections in any part of the body such as lungs, brain, abdominal cavity etc, 2. A known history of Thalassaemia 3. The absence of a clinically proven cancer. 4. A cancer which is dangerously close to or surrounding a blood vessel.  MICROWAVE THERAPYWhat are Microwaves? Mains electricity cycles at 50Hz, AM radio is in the region of 1MHz (‘megahertz’), FM radio is in the region of 100MHz, microwave ovens are 2450MHz and mobile phones are in the region of 825 to 890MHz (AMPS/analogue) and 890-960MHz (GMS/digital). Microwaves are able to be transmitted in a tight beam (spreading out less than radio waves) and so are used to transmit television signals to satellites in orbit. Microwaves used for medical treatment cycle at 434-930MHz and of these the 434MHz is generally the one used at the Fountain of Life © Clinic, in Queensland. What are Microwaves used for? • Microwave Ovens Microwaves are produced inside a microwave oven by an electron tube called a magnetron. The microwaves bounce back and forth within the metal interior until they are absorbed by the water molecules in the food. The absorption of energy by the water molecules causes them to vibrate, which in turn produces heat which cooks the food. Since microwaves are electromagnetic waves, as is visible light, they do not make the food "radioactive". • Satellite ground stations These use higher power levels than point-to-point microwave communications towers due to the distances involved. However, as with microwave point-to-point antennas, the diameter of the beam used to transmit the radiation is narrow and highly directional. It is unlikely that anybody would access the main beam. You'd have to be sitting in the dish or flying too close to the station. Radiation levels on the ground will vary, depending upon the angle of inclination of the antenna, the antenna pattern itself and the intensity of the transmitted signal. It's also worth remembering that not all ground stations are transmitters. • Mobile phones The allowable general public exposure limit is AS2772.1. The frequencies used by mobile phone services are 0.2 mW/cm-sq. This is lower than the ANSI/IEEE [1], ICNIRP [2] and NCRP [3] exposure standards. There is a 10-fold safety margin for occupational exposure and an additional 5-fold safety margin for continuous exposure of the general public. The result is a highly conservative public exposure standard that is set at a level that is below 2% of the level where potentially hazardous biological effects have actually been observed.  • Mobile phone
base station antenna mounted 20 m off the ground and
operated at the maximum possible intensity, might produce a power
density as high as 0.02 mW/cm2 on the ground near the antenna site;
but ground level power densities will more often be in the 0.0001
to 0.002 mW/cm-sq range. These power densities are far below all the
safety standards, and the standards themselves are set far below the
level where potentially hazardous effects have been seen. Close to
the base of the antenna site, the power density may be greater at
elevations above the base of the antenna site (for example, at the
second floor of a building or on a hill) but the carrier is required
by law to ensure that the general public exposure limits are not exceeded.
Power densities are lower inside buildings anyway. The Bioelectromagnetic Society has conducted numerous studies on the effects of non-ionizing radiation. No induction or promotion of brain cancer was found in rats that were exposed for their entire lifetime (starting at conception) to radiowaves at intensities above the ANSI standard, radiowave exposure at intensities above the ANSI standard did not cause DNA damage in mammalian cells, radiowaves had no effect on the growth of human leukemia cells, and ideband radiowave exposure did not cause birth defects in rats. • Microwave therapy for cancer Some important facts concerning the metabolism of cancer must be presented, before the reader can understand how microwaves are used to kill these cells.  1. Cancer cells require glucose which they break down to form lactic
acid plus energy. This process is done in the absence of oxygen and
is essential if the cancer cells are to continue to divide and multiply.
Therefore anything which can interfere with this process is liable
to interfere with the actively growing nature of the cancer. If oxygen
is present during the metabolic breakdown of glucose, then it interferes
with the metabolism within cancer cells and therefore their ability
to multiply.2. Cancer cells can be tricked into believing that certain substances look like glucose and therefore they assimilate them. Such drugs include oxidised amino acids. 3. An ultra high frequency radio wave of 434 MHz will temporarily activate cancer cells to burn glucose in the absence of oxygen. The use of this frequency of UHF has been use throughout Europe with great success since 1948 in the treatment of fractures and soft tissue injuries. 4. Therefore glucose uptake blocking agents (such as Vitamin C, oxidized amino acids like glutathione, alpha lipoic acid etc which carry a lot of oxygen) given immediately prior to the application of UHF will result in the cancer cells being ‘burnt’ by the blocking agents oxygen. This results in the death of the cancer cell.  These principals are used during ultra high frequency (UHF) microwave
treatment of cancer at the Fountain of Life © Clinic, directed
by Dr.Michael Tait in Queensland, in the following way: The glucose blocking agent is given by infusion through a large vein starting just prior to a course of UHF. The course of Microwave/Vitamin C therapy takes from 1.5 to 3 hours and is repeated three days a week for three weeks. On the other two days a week PDT therapy with sauna is utilized. Subsequent courses may sometimes have to be given. After two weeks treatment, pathology tests will be repeated to assess home treatment needs in the way of sauna, multiwave oscillator, or PDT equipment. Generally an assessment can be made after a period of six to eight weeks as to whether further treatment is necessary. Experience indicates that if a tumour is larger than 100gm then probably further treatments will be necessary. To prevent complications patients are advised to consume lamb or kangaroo throughout the course of the treatment irrespective of the diet they are normally on. After the treatment the patient can return to their previous diet which probably contains more small deep sea fish than red meat. There are very few contraindications to treatment but the condition of thalassaemia is one as is the presence of pleural, cardiac, or abdominal fluid collections (the fluid may get overheated by the treatment). RESEARCH: MICROWAVE THERAPY FOR CANCER Ann Surg Oncol. 2004 Feb;11(2):139-46. Related Articles Ann Surg Oncol. 2004 Feb;11(2):115] Focused microwave phased array thermotherapy for ablation of early-stage breast cancer: results of thermal dose escalation. Vargas HI, Dooley WC, Gardner RA, Gonzalez KD, Venegas R, Heywang-Kobrunner SH, Fenn AJ. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA. hvargas@ucla.edu BACKGROUND: Tumor ablation as a means of treating
breast cancer is being investigated. Microwave energy is promising
because it can preferentially heat high-water-content breast carcinomas,
compared to adipose and glandular tissues. |
