Note: The method described below was used in the past, and
may be revived in the future. But it is still experimental, and we
do not know of any doctor or lab using it today. A small preliminary study
by SGA MD, at McGill University in 1975, found no predictive value.
But the method has
not, to my knowledge, been tested in any other laboratory.
A simple electrochemical method to detect cancer and other diseases?
Dr. Donato Perez Garcia
y Bellon 2 claimed to have
developed just that during the 1950s and 1960s, and used it
with his father in their medical practice, until around 1985.
A small preliminary study by SGA
MD, at McGill University in 1975, found no predictive value. But the method has
not, to my knowledge, been tested in any other laboratory.
It would be
an easy thing to test. And if it turns out to have any merit whatsoever, it could be
researched, improved, and repackaged with modern optics and electronics to
provide an inexpensive early diagnostic test for cancer and other diseases.
The OncoDiagnosticator, as they called it, or the Onco, for
short, was extremely simple. Any high school student could make one for a
science project.
Take a glass container -- perhaps a 50 ml beaker. Fill it with a
neutral (pH = 7) electrolytic solution. Place bare copper wires in the
solution at opposite sides of the container. Put a few milliliters
of a patient's blood serum in a sleeve, pocket, or envelope made of
semipermeable membrane, and hang it in the middle of the solution.
Finally, connect the copper wire electrodes to a regulated 32 volt power source
and wait for two hours. What could be simpler?
The OncoDiagnosticator power supply
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Dr. Perez Garcia 1
comparing tubes of violet
serum.
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Dr. Perez Garcia
y Bellon 2 found that the serum would often change to a violet
color, readily visible when the serum was poured into a test tube at the end of
the reaction. Based on his experience,
he believed that absence
of violet would mean absence of cancer, pale violet would mean susceptibility to
cancer, darker violet would indicate early-stage still-hidden cancer, and very
dark violet would indicate the presence of later-stage cancer discoverable by
standard methods. Later work found other colors, again seeming to
correlate with the type and severity of disease.
Although for
him the color was the primary indicator,
he also found that
the pH of the electrolyte solution in the beaker would change depending on the
patient's condition. In healthy people the pH would be below 8.5.
And in cancer patients the pH would be higher: 8.5-9.5 or more in males,
and 9.5 to 10.5 in females. He also found that
the temperature of the electrolyte solution would become higher in
cancer patients than in normal people, and would be higher in female
cancer patients than in male cancer patients. I assume that
higher temperature means higher current flow, and indeed
Dr. Perez also measured current (milliamps).
Dr.
Perez never knew exactly what was going on chemically in the
system. As with IPT itself, he just found empirically that it worked.
Dr. Perez Garcia y Bellon 2
told me that the color, pH, and temperature would move closer to
normal as a patient underwent weeks of IPT treatments. So apparently the
method could be used to monitor the progress of a patient's condition.
Does the Onco really work? And if so, what is going on inside that
beaker? And when will a researcher get interested enough to find out?
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