Shortwave diathermy: Heat therapy at Nature Works Best Clinic
We have learned the following at the Nature Works Best Cancer Clinic: It is important not to rely on heat therapy alone, but rather to use its synergistic combination with other anti-cancer therapies, key among those is the IV nutrient treatments.
Chemotherapy not only has limitations in efficacy, as described above, but it also comprises some of the most toxic medications in current use, and therefore it has not been observed to have been beneficial for patients who have come to our clinic over the last two decades.
Instead, the clinic offers intravenous (IV) nutrient treatments chosen for their selectively toxic effect against cancer, while sparing and even nourishing normal tissues. Our Cancer & Biochemistry videos show how each nutrient that we use in our IV nutrient treatments is effective against cancer.
The reason that we chose to use shortwave diathermy at the clinic is that it is the most effective heat therapy for deep penetration, and it is the only heat therapy that can even penetrate the dense tissue mass of the hip. Diathermy is electrically generated high-frequency used to generate heat in tissues, to a greater depth than other therapeutic heat devices.
The FCC has indicated that the frequency for shortwave diathermy should be approximately 27.33 MHz, and in other literature the FCC says 27.12 MHz. Low frequencies are advantageous to isolate and treat tumor tissue selectively, as well as increased depth of penetration, and uniformity of heating. Other frequencies that have been reported clinically for this are from 1 to 30 MHz. Our frequency is set to the FCC-recommended frequency, for best observed results.
Shortwave diathermy places the part of the body to be heated under the diathermy drumhead. The patient is treated for thirty minutes at a time, once or twice per week during treatment.
We find that shortwave diathermy heat is most effective for being a mechanism to deliver heat deeply into the body without burning the skin or tissues.
At Nature Works Best Clinic, we find that cancer is so difficult to treat, that multiple, compatible synergistic treatments are needed. Otherwise, it is too easy for cancer to mutate and adapt to too few treatments. As we say, “Defeating cancer requires more than one treatment method.”[1]
Precautions that we take
These should be avoided:
Metal implants, pacemakers, prosthetics, IUDs, buttons, zippers, barrettes and jewelry in the area to be treated
Alcohol preparations on the skin
Excess sweating, which causes electric currents to pool in the area, which can cause burns
Pregnancy is a contraindication.
Hemophilia is a contraindication due to risk of bleeding from increased blood flow.
Likewise, menorrhagia is a contraindication. However, diathermy is also used in surgery to seal blood vessels.
Temperature Awareness is critical to using diathermy safely and effectively. A patient must at all times be in control of the off-switch of the diathermy, and must be able to communicate at any time during treatment with clinical staff.
Time and logistics of treatment
Generally 30 minutes of heat applied 1x to 2x per week for 5 weeks is a typical protocol.
The patient is undressed at the part of the body requiring treatment, except for a terry cloth towel placed over the affected area. The drum of the diathermy equipment is placed directly on the towel. It is important that the cloth be smooth, not folded or wrinkled, for best heat application. Whether large or small, overweight or underweight or in-between, the eight-inch drumhead can generally lie flat on a relaxed abdomen. The drumhead is placed over the area of the known tumor burden, avoiding bone, due to its irregular influence on the distribution of applied heat.
The patient must have a way to shut off the heat if it becomes uncomfortably hot. The equipment has this safety cord within the patient’s reach.
New developments and further reading in the treatment of cancers with heat
The International Journal of Hyperthermia reports developments in the therapeutic uses of heat, including tumor ablation and high intensity and frequency ultrasound (HIFU) as applied to tumors. It is an “open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research and clinical studies on thermal energy-based disease treatments.”
The Society for Thermal Medicine holds conferences on hyperthermia treatment for cancer and other diseases, and “strives to encourage the advancement of thermal medicine in all areas of natural and medical sciences.”
Hyperthermia encompasses factors of tumor temperature, heat dose and non-thermal effects, the analysis of which may become quite complex mathematical physiology. An in-depth discussion of the thermodynamics equations may be seen in Szasz, Physical Background and Technical Realizations of Hyperthermia.[2]
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A Szasz, O Szasz, N Szasz. Physical Background and Technical Realizations of Hyperthermia, in Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment: A Primer. In Madame Curie Bioscience Database. 2000-2013. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6161/
C Huber. Defeating cancer requires more than one treatment method. 2017 Nature Works Best Cancer Clinic. Cancer Treatment Paper 2017
