Following on from last week’s controversy on cancer, today I will be exploring alternative routes that could help cancer sufferers. I will be looking at ozone therapy.
The German army used ozone extensively during World War 1 to treat battle wounds and anaerobic infections. Ozone gas was originally used to disinfect operating rooms in Switzerland.
However, today, physicians worldwide are using ozone to treat a wide spectrum of diseases. “Oxidative therapies induce your white blood cells to make tumour-killing properties,” explains California-based physician Robert Jay Rowen.
When introduced into the bloodstream, ozone triggers an avalanche of beneficial changes, such as boosting the circulation, activating the immune system and improving the exchange of oxygen in the blood.
The clinical evidence from the many doctors using ozone worldwide is compelling
For over 80 years, it has been known that low oxygen levels are associated with cancer. Otto Warburg, a Nobel Prize-winning physician working in Germany, made this discovery in the 1930s and presented his findings at a Nobel Laureates’ meeting in Germany in 1966.
He said at the time: “Cancer cells meet their energy needs by fermentation, not oxidation. Thus, they are dependent on glucose and a high oxygen environment is toxic to them.”
Dr Warburg’s research was confirmed in 1980 when scientists reported laboratory evidence showing that ozone selectively inhibits the growth of cancer cells (Science, 1980).
In 1983, Joachim Varro offered one of the first reports of successful treatment of cancer with ozone at the Sixth World Ozone Conference, reporting that his patients were free of metastases and tumour relapses for a long period of time, with improved quality of life.
Italian researchers at the University of Siena offered the theory that the supposed anti-cancer effects of ozone may be due, in part, to its ability to induce the release of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) after measuring ozonated blood and discovering that most of the TNF was released immediately after ozonation took place (Lymphokine Cytokine Res., 1991).
The clinical evidence from the many doctors using ozone worldwide is compelling. Dr Rowen, who has educated hundreds of doctors worldwide about the use of ozone for a variety of illnesses, has witnessed the most profound effects with cancer.
One patient, a 76-year-old man with end-stage colon cancer and two metastatic tumours in his liver, was diagnosed as having, at most, a few weeks to live. Within four months of starting Rowen’s treatment with ozone and ultraviolet blood irradiation (which is another treatment often used alongside ozone), the patient’s liver tumours had shrunk by 85 per cent.
After 16 months, the liver tumours had disappeared and he had his colon tumour removed surgically. Today, he has no trace of cancer (Int. J. Cancer, 2008).
“Ozone therapy involves the patient sitting in a chair and having six to 12 ounces of blood removed into a sterilised bottle,” says Dan Cullum, a holistic practitioner based in Oklahoma.
“Then ozone is injected into the bottle and the bottle is shaken gently, allowing the red and white blood cells to take up the ozone. The ozonated blood is then returned to the body. The entire procedure takes about 30 to 40 minutes.”
Most centres, like the Oasis of Hope in Mexico, offer ozone therapy as one part of a programme that includes vitamin C infusions, potent supplements and conventional treatments, including chemotherapy, which could all form part of the patient’s package.
Breast cancer survival rates at this centre are two to three times higher than the US national average. In the case of stage 4 lung cancer, the survival rate at the Oasis of Hope is five times the national average.
Doctors claim that ozone limits the damaging effects of chemotherapy to healthy tissue. A study carried out in 2004 on animals in Cuba found that ozone reversed the toxicity caused by chemotherapy and reduced kidney damage (Mediators Inflamm., 2004). Interestingly, Cuba is the only country in the world that offers ozone therapy on national insurance and is leading on this research.
As a lead-in to next Sunday’s different views on cancer treatment, here are the survivor’s six steps to tackling cancer:
• Embrace change – see cancer as a wake-up call and be willing to discard old diets, habits and thoughts;
• Find joy – take time to do what you love, whether it is listening to music, gardening or walking the dog;
• Be a difficult patient – ask your doctor or specialist questions and make it clear that you want to be fully involved in decisions;
• Trust in the treatments – once you have chosen a treatment that is right for you, put your faith in it;
• Let go – address the stress and don’t ignore the emotional aspects of your cancer;
• Rise up and take the reins – see cancer as a challenge rather than a threat and focus on what you can do to make a difference.
Next Sunday we will look at preventative lifestyle changes and changing attitudes towards cancer.
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