The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) has approved a new treatment for patients as an alternative to chemotherapy. The promising new non-invasive treatment by Novocure uses "Tumor Treating Fields" (NovoTTF) to treat cancerous growths and is now available for adult patients with recurring brain tumors (recurrent glioblastoma or GBM). The treatment delivers electric fields to a patient utilizing a portable, wearable device that permits the patient to maintain normal daily activities without down time.
"Our device provides patients and physicians with a novel, non-invasive alternative to chemotherapy that is safe and effective," said Eilon Kirson, M.D., Ph.D., Novocure's Chief Medical Officer. "The device allows for continuous treatment without the usual, debilitating side effects that chemotherapies inflict on recurrent GBM patients and indirectly on their families."
The portable device, which weighs about six pounds (three kg), is used continuously throughout the day by the patient. Tests indicate that the devices can slow and reverse tumor growth by inhibiting mitosis, the process by which cancerous cells divide and replicate. The NovoTTF treatment involves placing pads onto the patient's skin that creates a low intensity and alternating electric field within the tumor. The electric field prevents the normal mitotic process and causes cancer cell death prior to division without harming healthy cells. Whilst chemotherapy treatments can often be debilitating, the most commonly reported side effect from the NovoTTF treatment is a mild-to-moderate rash beneath the electrodes.
Glioblastoma is considered an aggressive and common form of primary brain cancer. In the United States the disease affects approximately 10,000 people each year. The results from a 237-patient trial indicated that NovoTTF treated patients achieved comparable median overall survival times to patients treated with chemotherapy but had fewer side effects, and reported an improved quality of life.
"In the lab we've observed tremendous synergies between chemotherapy and tumor treating fields," said Bill Doyle, Executive Chairman of Novocure, in a recent TED talk. "We have more trails planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer. And I firmly believe that in the next ten years Tumor Treating Fields will be a weapon available to doctors and patients for all of these most difficult to treat solid tumors."
You can watch Bill Doyle discuss the benefits of NovoTFF treatment in a TED talk on the video below.
Novocure also has European marketing approvals for the NovoTTF-100A.
Source: Novocure
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Bio-electric therapy including this TTF uses lower frequencies typically in the Hz and MHz range that use sine or square waves with the base frequencies sometimes modulated on an RF carrier frequency for cell penetration.
Having worked in this field of coordinative resonance for over 30 years I can say that I never would use a cell phone next to my head or body and NEVER have WIFI or a cordless telephone in my home.
Here is a partial list of resources regarding the dangers of cell phones, cordless phones, and WIFI:
- Cell, WIFI & Cordless Phone Hazards: The Real Truth from Independant Scientists - WHO Says this Common Device is in the Same Category as Lead, Engine Exhaust, and Chloroform - Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering Important Regions of the Brain - Zapped by Ann Louise Gittleman - Silent Fields and Dirty Electricity by Donna Fisher - Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age by George Carlo - Uninformed Consent : The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care by Hal A. Huggins, DDS (h ttp://www.hugginsappliedhealing.com/) - Electrosmog a Phantom Risk - Christian Brauner - Motorcycle Cancer by Randall Dale Chipkar (www.motorcyclecancer.com) - Cell Phones and The Dark Deception: Find Out What You're Not Being Told...And Why - Carleigh Cooper - Wireless Radiation Rescue: safeguarding your family from the risks of electro-pollution by Kerry Crofton - Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family by Devra Lee Davis - Health Hazards Of Electromagnetic Radiation, 2nd Edition: A Startling Look At The Effects Of Electropollution On Your Health by Bruce Fife, ND - Cell Towers Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard Edited by B. Blake Levitt - Cross Currents Promise of Electromagnetism, Perils of Electropollution by Robert O. Becker - Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation: Human Bioeffects & Safety by Riadh W. y. Habash - Fields From Electric Power What Do We Know About Possible Health Risks? by Prof. M. Granger Morgan - The Great Power-Line Cover-Up by Paul Brodeur - HAARP The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by Jerry Smith - Living Safely with Electromagnetic Radiation by Jim Waugh - Possible Health Effects of Exposure To Residental Electric & Magnetic Fields by National Research Council - Power Frequency Magnetic Fields and Public Health by William Horton & Saul Goldberg - The Powerwatch Handbook by Alasdair and Jean Philips - Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution - EMF IN The Workplace by National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health - The Sick House Survival Guide - Warning: The Electricity Around You May Be Hazardous To Your Health by Ellen Sugarman - Would You Put Your Head In A Microwave Oven by Gerald Goldberg, MD - Too many more to list . . .