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Hyperthermia (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 perfused 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. Georg, 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.
Building Immunity
One of the long-term cancer survivors I met in Bad Aibling is
Friedhelm, a former schoolteacher who couldn't wait to tell me his
story. We talked on a couch in "Professor" Dr. Douwes's waiting
room. Friedhelm was diagnosed in May 1993 with a non-small-cell lung
tumor 12 centimeters by 6 centimeters (about 4.7 inches by 2.4
inches) in size. This type of cancer usually has a five-year
survival rate of only 10%. Doctors told Friedhelm: "Go for chemo
tomorrow. If you're very lucky, you'll survive six months. He knew
of Dr. Douwes's reputation and effectiveness of his therapeutic
protocols because his brother had gone to university with the
doctor.
In Friedhelm's words, his immune status at the start of treatment
was "nothing, absolutely terrible." Dr. Douwes told him he couldn't
start chemotherapy right away. He could not withstand the poisons.
Like most patients, he had to build his body up first. Thus, for two
weeks, he was given nutritional supplements and natural immune
system modulators.
From May to September 1993 Friedhelm had two cycles of low-dose
chemotherapy with hyperthermia. Then in October he had radiation in
Munich, nothing more. Buy the end of treatment he was cancer-free,
and has been ever since. His other medical doctors are astonished
and consider the case unexplainable. He suffered no hair loss from
the chemotherapy, no nausea. In fact, except for a mildly reduced
white blood cell count that his doctors attribute to the radiation
in Munich, he had no side effects whatsoever.
"Most people call it a wonder. I think it's a result of this
therapy." Says Friedhelm. He points out that he now has more hair
than he did ten years ago. He also observes that "in the past,
before health insurance, if you were poor, you died soon. Now, if
you're not informed, you die".
Dr. Douwes says that killing malignant tumors is usually not
difficult, and a synergy of treatments works best for that. The
biggest challenge comes about afterwards, to keep tumors from coming
back once patients leave the clinic and resume a normal lifestyle.
To prevent their reoccurrence one must keep the immune system strong
with diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation and especially a
positive mental attitude.
Friedhelm has taken this advice to heart. He is on a regular
supplementation program and visits Dr. Douwes faithfully four times
a year for reassessment and cancer screening (early detection). He
says he retired from teaching and fulfilled a life-long dream of
riding his motorcycle down Route 66 in the U.S.
While in Bad Aibling, I met patient after patient who would not have
considered undergoing more chemotherapy unless it was low dose chemo
in combination with hyperthermia or electrotherapy. Not only do
these treatments reduce the amount of chemotherapy needed, but also
they markedly reduce side effects from chemotherapy and radiation,
and they allow for achieving much greater results. Dr. Douwes backs
this bold statement by referring to many oncology studies, both in
the laboratory and in actual patients.
Prostate Cancer
Another one of Dr. Douwes' many success stories is Les M., an
engineer from California who had prostate cancer. From his
professional education he brings a skeptical, inquiring, scientific
perspective to viewing various situations. Before Les came to Klinik
St. Georg for transurethal prostate hyperthermia treatment, he
carefully reviewed the literature on different treatments. He chose
the clinic after learning that local-region radio-wave hyperthermia
has produced "fabulous results" (whereas the U.S. study of
hyperthermia using microwaves cause patients agonizing urethral pain
and made U.S. doctors thereafter shun the procedure). Les was also
impressed to learn how sophisticated the clinic's method of
determining efficacy of treatment is. The traditional Prostate-
Specific Antigen (PSA) test gives a high rate of false negatives
(about 30%). Les had a particular from of aggressive form of
aggressive prostate cancer that is not revealed by elevated PSA's.
Klinik St. Georg also uses the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
technique to determine whether cancer cells are still circulating in
the blood stream.
When I met Les just before he was to go in for his first treatment.
He sat in a comfortable upholstered chair with flexible radio-
receiving plates affixed to each buttock. With local anesthesia he
had a probe containing a tiny radio transmitter introduced through a
transurethral catheter into his enlarged prostate. Unlike the
American protocol, which used high-energy microwaves that burned
both cancerous and non-cancerous tissue alike, the Klinik St. Georg
treatment employs short-wave radio transmissions. These heat the
prostate area to between 113 and 158 degrees Fahrenheit and
adversely affect only malignant cells. At times Les felt some
discomfort during the treatment, as if he had to urinate, but
otherwise the three-hour process was not traumatic, and he was
asleep for much of the time. I interviewed Les fifteen minutes post-
therapy, after his catheter was removed and he had urinated without
pain or any burning sensation. He was positively joyful and
downright playful.
(cont...)
Hyperthermia (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 perfused 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. Georg, 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.
Building Immunity
One of the long-term cancer survivors I met in Bad Aibling is
Friedhelm, a former schoolteacher who couldn't wait to tell me his
story. We talked on a couch in "Professor" Dr. Douwes's waiting
room. Friedhelm was diagnosed in May 1993 with a non-small-cell lung
tumor 12 centimeters by 6 centimeters (about 4.7 inches by 2.4
inches) in size. This type of cancer usually has a five-year
survival rate of only 10%. Doctors told Friedhelm: "Go for chemo
tomorrow. If you're very lucky, you'll survive six months. He knew
of Dr. Douwes's reputation and effectiveness of his therapeutic
protocols because his brother had gone to university with the
doctor.
In Friedhelm's words, his immune status at the start of treatment
was "nothing, absolutely terrible." Dr. Douwes told him he couldn't
start chemotherapy right away. He could not withstand the poisons.
Like most patients, he had to build his body up first. Thus, for two
weeks, he was given nutritional supplements and natural immune
system modulators.
From May to September 1993 Friedhelm had two cycles of low-dose
chemotherapy with hyperthermia. Then in October he had radiation in
Munich, nothing more. Buy the end of treatment he was cancer-free,
and has been ever since. His other medical doctors are astonished
and consider the case unexplainable. He suffered no hair loss from
the chemotherapy, no nausea. In fact, except for a mildly reduced
white blood cell count that his doctors attribute to the radiation
in Munich, he had no side effects whatsoever.
"Most people call it a wonder. I think it's a result of this
therapy." Says Friedhelm. He points out that he now has more hair
than he did ten years ago. He also observes that "in the past,
before health insurance, if you were poor, you died soon. Now, if
you're not informed, you die".
Dr. Douwes says that killing malignant tumors is usually not
difficult, and a synergy of treatments works best for that. The
biggest challenge comes about afterwards, to keep tumors from coming
back once patients leave the clinic and resume a normal lifestyle.
To prevent their reoccurrence one must keep the immune system strong
with diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation and especially a
positive mental attitude.
Friedhelm has taken this advice to heart. He is on a regular
supplementation program and visits Dr. Douwes faithfully four times
a year for reassessment and cancer screening (early detection). He
says he retired from teaching and fulfilled a life-long dream of
riding his motorcycle down Route 66 in the U.S.
While in Bad Aibling, I met patient after patient who would not have
considered undergoing more chemotherapy unless it was low dose chemo
in combination with hyperthermia or electrotherapy. Not only do
these treatments reduce the amount of chemotherapy needed, but also
they markedly reduce side effects from chemotherapy and radiation,
and they allow for achieving much greater results. Dr. Douwes backs
this bold statement by referring to many oncology studies, both in
the laboratory and in actual patients.
Prostate Cancer
Another one of Dr. Douwes' many success stories is Les M., an
engineer from California who had prostate cancer. From his
professional education he brings a skeptical, inquiring, scientific
perspective to viewing various situations. Before Les came to Klinik
St. Georg for transurethal prostate hyperthermia treatment, he
carefully reviewed the literature on different treatments. He chose
the clinic after learning that local-region radio-wave hyperthermia
has produced "fabulous results" (whereas the U.S. study of
hyperthermia using microwaves cause patients agonizing urethral pain
and made U.S. doctors thereafter shun the procedure). Les was also
impressed to learn how sophisticated the clinic's method of
determining efficacy of treatment is. The traditional Prostate-
Specific Antigen (PSA) test gives a high rate of false negatives
(about 30%). Les had a particular from of aggressive form of
aggressive prostate cancer that is not revealed by elevated PSA's.
Klinik St. Georg also uses the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
technique to determine whether cancer cells are still circulating in
the blood stream.
When I met Les just before he was to go in for his first treatment.
He sat in a comfortable upholstered chair with flexible radio-
receiving plates affixed to each buttock. With local anesthesia he
had a probe containing a tiny radio transmitter introduced through a
transurethral catheter into his enlarged prostate. Unlike the
American protocol, which used high-energy microwaves that burned
both cancerous and non-cancerous tissue alike, the Klinik St. Georg
treatment employs short-wave radio transmissions. These heat the
prostate area to between 113 and 158 degrees Fahrenheit and
adversely affect only malignant cells. At times Les felt some
discomfort during the treatment, as if he had to urinate, but
otherwise the three-hour process was not traumatic, and he was
asleep for much of the time. I interviewed Les fifteen minutes post-
therapy, after his catheter was removed and he had urinated without
pain or any burning sensation. He was positively joyful and
downright playful.
(cont...)
