Story from Bangalore.
Well, according to its inventor, they “first calibrate the proton density of the therapeutic radio waves with the help of a basic MRI scanner”, while everyone knows that for that to work, you’d have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow first.
In short, that’s blatant technobabble; still, if it works as advertised, it’d be a huge breakthrough, but I’ve seen too many cancer miracle cures go the way of the Dodo to get my hopes up too far. Too much in the way of anecdotes and inconsistent results (some claim a size reduction, others being in less pain, etc.), too little in the way of hard evidence. That the machine was first devised to heal broken bones also doesn’t really inspire confidence.
I don’t see any real evidence for the treatment cited in that article. For instance, something like 62% of terminal patients are said to be alive for a period of time after the treatment. Did they follow a group of similar patients who were given standard or no treatment? Has there been any published research at all on this technology (I see nothing in the Pub Med database for “cytotron” or under the inventor’s name).
Promoters of any alternative/quack cancer remedy can come up with anecdotes supporting their claims; it’s pretty much meaningless.
I was also struck by the breathless, unqualified acceptance by the credulous reporter, including this gem: “Modern clinical practice is convinced cancer can only be managed, not cured.”
What nonsense. A number of cancers can in fact be cured through one or more techniques in use today, especially if caught in early stages.
The idea of a sweeping one-size-fits-all cancer cure that is noninvasive and without any significant side effect is alluring but unrealistic. As one person quoted in the article notes, there are many different cancers with differing etiologies that behave differently. Any one therapy is highly unlikely to have a dramatic effect on all of them.
I’m pretty skeptical about the claims that this Dr Rajah Vijay Kumar is making.
I’m more interested in the procedure that John Kanzius came up with.
Extraordinary results demand extraordinary proof.
Dr. Rajah Vijay Kumar has found a cure for his bank account!
No!! Ordinary scientific proof is fine. And it ain’t there. I truly, truly, truly hate that canard. But you I like.