A new technique of low-intensity ultrasound pulses could become a promising method to treat cancer. It selectively destroyed the cancerous cells while it leaves the healthy ones unharmed.
According to associate professor and director of music at Skidmore College, Anthony Holland, he had a dream.
This dream was a future without people suffering from the negative effect of toxic cancer therapy drugs and radiation.
Today, with his team, he believes they’re closer to the solution. And, this solution is apparently sound we can’t actually hear!
The Power of Ultrasounds for Cancer Treatment
Holland and his team wanted to discover if they could impact a cell by sending a certain electrical signal, similar to LCD technology.
Therefore, after researching the patent database for a potential device that could help them achieve this, they found one.
This therapeutic device is an invention of Dr. James Bare, a physician. It uses a plasma antenna that pulses on and off.
According to Holland, this is important since a constant electricity pulse would make too much heat and end up destroying the cell. In a period of 15 months, together with his team, he searched for the proper frequency that would kill a living microorganism.
And, the “magic frequency” finally appeared in the form of two inputs, one high and one low frequency.
Interestingly, the high one had to be eleven times higher than the low one. This is known as the 11th harmonic in music. At this range, the microorganisms start to break like crystal glass.
The Team’s Practice to Perfection
After ongoing practice to make the procedure efficient, Holland began collaborating with a group of cancer treatment researchers in a try to destroy cancerous cells.
The first ones they looked at were pancreatic cancer cells and eventually found that they’re vulnerable to a frequency between 100,000-300,000 Hz.
And, in their controlled and repeated experiments, these frequencies, also known as OPEF tech, this method managed to destroy an average of 25 percent to 40 percent of leukemia cells.
What’s more, in some cases, it also reached 60 percent. This intervention also helped slow down cancer development rates up to 65 percent.
It Doesn’t Destroy the Healthy Cells
The research team found that a minute of 500,000-hertz ultrasound delivered in 20-millisecond bursts destroyed almost every cancerous cell without harming the healthy blood cells. And, it also left more than eight in every ten immune cells untouched.
This is huge news considering most cancer therapies available today involve toxic chemicals, radiation, or surgery. These methods also destroy the person’s healthy cells resulting in tiredness, pain, etc.
According to a biomedical engineer at the California Institute of Technology, David Mittelstein, this news is exciting and it may help physicians target cancerous cells on the basis of their unique properties, both physical and structural.
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