Scientist wages non-toxic cancer treatment campaign from home
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- Published on Friday, 05 July 2013 15:02
- Written by Elaine Halleck
Retired Yugoslavia-born astronomer Egon Beer, who has lived in Guadalajara for 27 years, gets up at 7 a.m. every morning and feeds the pigeons who visit his small patio before he settles into the routine that has been a fixture in his life for 41 years.
The 89-year-old sends letters — 8,500 of them, so far — on personal stationery headed “Egon Johannes Beer, Ph.D.” In these neat and reasoned letters, he explains to medical institutions a novel idea for non-toxic cancer treatment and encourages them to pursue research on the technique, which he has dubbed and registered as Cancer and Hibernation.
The technique, he says, destroys tumors in a matter of hours and is based on the well-established fact that malignant cells have unique characteristics: a highly accelerated metabolism and rapid rate of multiplication. Hibernation shuts down these processes, killing tumors in a matter of hours and without negative side effects such as those that follow from conventional treatments.