RUSSIA: TEAM OF DOCTORS AT NOVOSIBIRSK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT TO CURE DRUG ADDICTION, ASTHMA AND EVEN CANCER
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RUSSIA: TEAM OF DOCTORS AT NOVOSIBIRSK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT TO CURE DRUG ADDICTION, ASTHMA AND EVEN CANCER
- Title: RUSSIA: TEAM OF DOCTORS AT NOVOSIBIRSK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT TO CURE DRUG ADDICTION, ASTHMA AND EVEN CANCER
- Date: 20th July 2001
- Summary: SCU NAKED PATIENT PUT INTO BATHTUB; SCU ANAESTHETIST SUPPORTING PATIENT'S HEAD; SCU SCREEN SHOWING BODY TEMPERATURE AT 42.5 CELSIUS (3 SHOTS) SCU TEAM OF DOCTORS STIRRING WATER TO SPREAD HEAT OVER WHOLE BODY (5 SHOTS) SCU OPERATION IN PROGRESS; SCU INDICATOR SHOWING BODY TEMPERATURE 43.2 CELSIUS (2 SHOTS) SCU PATIENT LIFTED FROM THE BATHTUB AND PLACED ON STRETCHER
- Embargoed: 4th August 2001 13:00
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- Location: NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Health,Politics,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
- Reuters ID: LVA3DXG20DZU45AV0IQDAL0N6C61
- Story Text: A team of pioneering doctors in Russia's Siberia has been using a unique method of heating a human body to record high temperatures - a method they claim can cure drug addiction, asthma and even cancer.
Novosibirsk, 3,000 km east of Moscow. For years this city in Western Siberia has been the cradle of Russian science, bringing together the country's top scientific minds.
The Novosibirsk Academy of Sciences was established to invent and test new technologies in all spheres of science.
Here a team of doctors, headed by professor Alexey Suvernev, have developed a method they call hyperthermia.
The essence of the method is quite simple but the process of carrying it out is not.
The method of hyperthermia is used to rid a person of any infectious cells by heating the body to record high temperatures that a person normally would not survive.
Hyperthermia was originally invented by a German doctor who managed to cure various infections by raising the body temperature to 41.8 Celsius. But that was as high as he could get. Another German scientist went to 43 Celsius. Only one of his patients survived the extreme heat.
Three years ago Dr. Alexey Suvernev and his team of physicians went further. They brought human body temperature to 43.5 Celsius and without any side-effects.
Russian physicians claim that such high temperature kill all viruses and infectious cells, leaving the healthy ones intact. If temperature goes beyond 45 Celsius then that would be fatal to healthy cells and would cause death.
Russian doctors have used this method on over 300 patients with various forms of cancer, AIDS, asthma, and other diseases. They said people with drug addiction stopped taking drugs after only one treatment with hyperthermia.
Lyudmila Mochulskaya came to Novosibirsk from a nearby Siberian city. A year ago doctors discovered she had a malignant tumour in her rectum. The tumour was removed but Lyudmila decided to come to Novosibirsk and go through hyperthermia.
She found out about the method from an article in a newspaper.
Dr. Suvernev told her that any cancer cells she might have left in her body would be destroyed by hyperthermia.
"I don't know but for some reason I believe in this method, from a biological point of view, what the professors say and write, I think it's a good clean up of the whole body" said Lyudmila before the treatment.
Lyudmila is put under general anaesthesia and then placed into a large bathtub with 600 litres of water heated to 46 Celsius.
She is connected to an artificial breathing system.
Doctors conducting the treatment are checking her pulse, heart beat and body temperature on special monitors.
Dr. Suvernev and his team are constantly stirring the water to spread the heat through the patient's whole body.
In approximately 20 minutes in the hot tub the patients body temperature reaches + 43,5 degrees.
"All tissues, no matter where these metostatic cells can be, must be heated to a temperature just over 43 degrees Celsius. Only then we can have some guarantee that there would be no relapse. "
In normal conditions a person would not have survived such a high temperature and would die from heat shock.
During hyperthermia doctors use basic life support systems to make sure nothing goes wrong. The treatment can be stopped instantly in case a patient's heart starts to fail.
"This method can not be absolutely safe. We place a human being on the brink of life and death and then bring him back to life again, leaving all is illnesses behind, freeing him from them. Of course such a method cannot be simple"
Dr. Suvernev says the method has no side-effects. But in case of cancer tumours he recommends they be removed before using hyperthermia.
Once the right body temperature is reached the patient stays in the tub for another 20 minutes and then removed from it and placed on a stretcher to cool down. The head is placed between two ice bottles.
Lyudmila and Nickolay Pantyukhin came all the way from Moscow. Nickolay suffers from a lymph cancer. He turned to hyperthermia as a last resort after having gone through chemotherapy treatment.
"When I arrived here I was so weak I could hardly move my feet. But after the treatment I felt several years younger", he said two days after undergoing hyperthermia.
Nickolay tried other forms of treatment before coming to Novosibirsk.
"We have been everywhere and tried everything. Well, we'll see what happens this time. Of course one treatment will not be enough", says Lyudmila.
Hyperthermia is not cheap for ordinary Russians. One treatment, depending on the medicine used with it, can cost between $2000-3000 US, most Russians simply can't afford.
Novosibirsk physicians claim that by using hyperthermia they would eventually be able to make people younger and prolong life. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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