Page 1203 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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CANCER TREATMENT
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
Motion (by Mr Stevenson) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent the matter of public importance submitted today being called on forthwith.
MR STEVENSON (3.58): This matter of public importance arose out of the World Congress on Cancer that was held at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, from 15 to 18 April. This was a medical conference. I highlight the point that there were 43 medical scientists, doctors and professors from 14 different countries around the world. The treatments for cancer that they were talking about are legitimate, are fully researched and are university backed. They are independent of large pharmaceutical company funding. They do not attract that commercial funding. They are low cost; they are very inexpensive.
Some of the people who appeared at the conference were Dr Stephen Davies, chairman of the British Society of Nutritional Medicine; Dr Wolfgang Kostler, president of the Austrian Oncology Society; Dr Hans A. Nieper, past president of the German Society of Oncology; Professor Banerjee, secretary-general of the International Federation of Homeopathic Physicians; Cliff Sanderson, from New Zealand, who won the Albert Schweitzer award in 1992; and so it goes on. I would refer to some of the people in more detail, but I simply have no time to give their qualifications. These are eminent researchers-scientists from around the world.
Dr Bjorn Nordenstrom, from the Karolinska University is a former president of the Nobel Assembly. He has won various scientific awards dating back to 1954, including the Linus Pauling award in 1982. Let me read from someone reporting on his electro-chemical treatments:
He found that tumours generally have the same polarity as white cells and as like charges repel, so the tumour repels the white cell. By inserting a probe into the tumour and slowly reversing the polarity with a slow pulsed electrical field, he could cause white cells to cluster around the tumour and destroy it. He can now also treat the whole of the body rather than using the probe insertion method. Results are fast ...
This particular treatment is safe and simple. It is less traumatic than some orthodox treatments and it is certainly inexpensive. In China 3,200 patients have been treated at 416 hospitals. Over the last five years, the overall success rate is 79 per cent. This includes breast and lung carcinomas. The good news is that clinical trials are under way in Europe, but not in Australia yet.
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