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Sunday, Jul 04, 2004

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A `breakthrough' in cancer treatment?

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 3. P. Ravikumar (43) was diagnosed with end-stage lung cancer in May 2003. He was operated upon for removing the tumour-affected part of his lung. After another unsuccessful operation, he was told that he was inoperable, as the tumour had spread to his adrenal gland, liver and kidney. "I went to many oncologists, but I was told that mine was a terminal condition. The last doctor I consulted told me that I would live for one more week," he says.

He then approached the Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the Indian Air Force. "I do not have any problems now. I have been asked to come for follow-ups and my condition is normal. I have had a rebirth," says an ecstatic Mr. Ravikumar.

In what may turn out to be a breakthrough in medicine, specifically treatment of cancer and osteoarthritis, the institute and the Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD), a Bangalore-based research organisation, have developed a non-invasive technology using high-power electromagnetic beams.

High-power multi-frequency rotating quantum electromagnetic resonating beams have been used to "cure" Mr. Ravikumar. He was given 28 exposures to the beams.

The research team has also initiated a pilot project to regenerate tissues in 36 patients with severe osteoarthritis (a degenerative condition affecting the joints), and they have shown marked improvement, V.G. Vasishta, Wing Commander, Professor and Head of the Department of Radio Diagnosis and principal investigator of the project, told presspersons here on Saturday.

The team comprises Mr. Vasishta; Rajah Vijay Kumar, director of CARD; and L.J. Pinto, Surgeon Commander and Professor and Head of the Department of Human Engineering of the institute. CARD is the research wing of Scalene Cybernetics.

A two-year study, in collaboration with Command Hospital here, including clinical trials, will shortly begin for establishing the technology's efficacy in treating cancer. The trials will be conducted on 60 terminally ill patients, he added. The researchers have described the results so far as "miraculous".

Dr. Vijay Kumar said the RFQMR (rotational field quantum magnetic resonance) device, developed by the centre, was the first such device in the world and an international patent for it was pending. The technique will be ready for use by 2006-2007. It took seven years to develop this technology, he said. Mr. Vasishta said the technique was being used only in cases which the tumour was localised (for the beams to be targeted there), the patients were inoperable and when they had tried all other treatments.

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