Rife Revisited?

Will scientists someday be able to 'dial up' an electromagnetic treatment for
some people's cancer? Possibly, according to scientists at eight laboratories in
five countries, who published an interesting article recently in the Journal of
Experimental Clinical Cancer Research (2009;28:51). An international team,
headed by Dr. Alexandre Barbault of Lausanne, Switzerland, found that most
frequencies were lethal to a particular cancer type. They call their device a
"noninvasive biofeedback method."

In this trial, 13 patients were considered evaluable for response. Of these, one
with a hormone-refractory breast cancer metastatic to the adrenal gland and bone
had a complete response lasting 11 months. A similar patient had a partial
response lasting 13.5 months. Four had stable disease: of these, one with
thyroid cancer metastatic to the lung had 34.1 months stability, a non-small
cell lung cancer patient was stable for 5.1 months, a patient with pancreatic
cancer metastatic to liver was stabilized for 41 months and a patient with
leiomyosarcoma remained stable for 4.0 months.

The authors concluded that "cancer-related frequencies appear to be
tumor-specific and treatment with tumor-specific frequencies is feasible, well
tolerated and may have biological efficacy in patients with advanced cancer."

The same authors had previously shown that administration of a low level
electromagnetic field (at a frequency of 42.7 Hz) by means of a battery-powered
portable device could change the brain waves of healthy volunteers and is
associated with the relaxation effect. The device has been used to induce sleep
in insomniacs. Such an approach has been called Low Energy Emission Therapy
(LEET). For those who think such an approach is dangerous, they point out that
the amount of energy delivered to the brain in this way "is 100 to 1000 times
lower than the amount of electromagnetic fields delivered by handheld cellular
phones and does not result in any heating effect within the brain."

The authors explained that in their study of cancer patients they had observed
"strikingly similar frequencies among patients with the same type of cancer."

A Rife Connection?

This technology bears some resemblance to the ideas of a notorious American
inventor, Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971). In the 1930s, Rife claimed to have
invented a "beam ray" device that could destroy cancers (and other supposedly
virally-induced diseases) by vibrating at the "Mortal Oscillatory Rate" (MOR) of
their constituent chemicals.

After publication of a sensationalist book in 1987 ("The Cancer Cure That
Worked"), the sale of various "Rife machines" multiplied. I cannot vouch for the
effectiveness (or lack thereof) of any or all of these electromagnetic devices.
But in the light of the above paper, perhaps Rife's controversial work bears
re-examination from the research community.

Ralph W. Moss Ph.D.
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