The doctor many believe can cure cancer (Australia)

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> Frank <califpacific

> Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:53:55 -0700 (PDT)

> The doctor

> many believe can cure cancer (Australia)

>

> http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/stories/1744.asp

>

> The doctor many believe can cure cancer

>

> 9 August 2004

> Reporter: Ray Martin

>

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>

>

> Over a period of 30 years, highly qualified

> Perth-based surgeon Dr John Holt has had some

> startling successes with a radio-wave therapy

> treatment for cancer patients.

>

> However, this radical treatment has polarised the

> medical community in Australia. His supporters say

> he's been vilified, while his detractors point out

> there is no scientific basis for his claims.

>

> Elvina Johnson had a lot of living to do when she

> was

> told she had an aggressive form of bone cancer. At

> 18,

> doctors discovered she had a " galaxy of tumours " .

> She

> lost her leg and underwent intensive chemo treatment

> to try and stop it spreading. Her cancer was so

> severe

> that she relapsed soon after.

>

> " It was through both of my lungs and by that stage

> it

> was pretty terminal, " she told Ray Martin.

>

> Elvina was desperate. Quite by chance she heard

> about

> a cancer specialist with a highly controversial

> procedure.

>

> " By taking the chance and finding this man, I am

> here

> six years later and probably feeling better than

> ever,

> so I have had a rebirth, " she said.

>

> Dr Holt's controversial treatment works, in

> layperson's terms, by giving the patient an

> injection

> of a glucose-blocking agent. He then shines " radio

> waves " into the body at a specific frequency. Dr

> Holt

> doesn't guarantee it will cure every cancer, but

> it's

> not expensive and there's no quackery about it.

>

> Born in Bristol 80 years ago and a member of the

> Royal

> Colleges, Dr Holt has 26 medical letters after his

> name. For more than a decade he was in charge of

> Western Australia's main cancer institute, until the

> late '70s, when he was blacklisted by his medical

> colleagues and politicians.

>

> " The doctors took up such an action initially, they

> said the treatment was fake and useless, " said

> former

> WA Premier John Tonkin. But Tonkin added, " There is

> no

> doubt whatsoever in my mind that this is the most

> advanced form of cancer treatment in the world

> today. "

>

> The polarisation of the medical and scientific

> community in Perth over Dr Holt's treatment has been

> evident since the mid-'70s.

>

> " It is an unproven form of cancer treatment and it's

> not part of the armoury of orthodox ways of treating

> cancer in Australia, " said Clive Deverill, the

> former

> boss of WA's Cancer Council. " Equally, there are

> legions of patients who have been down that track

> who

> can't say anything about their position because

> they're dead. "

>

> While the medical community continues to argue the

> merits of Dr Holt's unorthodox measures, the

> families

> of his successes feel they owe everything to this

> gentle man.

>

> After two brain tumours and a tumour on her spine,

> Sophia Rosa was sent by pre-eminent brain surgeon Dr

> Charlie Teo for the radical treatment. Two years

> later, the only sign Sophia had cancer are the

> side-effects from the massive doses of chemotherapy

> given in Sydney.

>

> " Sometimes I think maybe Sophia's reason for getting

> sick was so people would know about Doctor Holt, "

> said

> Louisa Raso, Sophia's mum.

>

> Contacts

>

>

> * Dr John Holt (08) 9322 3544

> * Dr John Holt support group

>

>