NEWS
Here you will find a collection of articles on Cytotron published by various publications around the world.
News Index
Hope For Healing (March 2008; The Star)
Cytotron - Hope of Osteoarthritis (May 2007; Global Business Magazine)
Hope of Osteoarthritis (April 2007; New Health 100)
Technology to Banish Those Wincing Pain (Jan 2006; Living)
Cytotron Treatment Claimable from Insurance in India (March 2007; The Tribune)
IAM Develops New Method of Cancer Treatment (March 2006; Deccan Herald)
Something Less Than a Miracle (Newsweek Internation Edition)
Cancer: India's New Treatment (April 2006; Red Herring)
How These Men Found a Cure for Cancer (November 2004; City Reporter)
A Boon for Cancer: Osteoarthritis Patients (July 2005; The Hindu)
Something Less Than a Miracle
Newsweek International Edition - December 20 issue
One day last month, Dr. V. G. Vasishta and Dr. Rajah Vijay Kumar were confronted by a 35-year-old woman suffering from ovarian cancer. After three operations, her cancer had returned, but she couldn't afford the extra chemotherapy treatments her doctors prescribed. She had heard rumors that a new cancer treatment was being tested at Scalene Cybernetics, a biomedical firm in Bangalore working with researchers from the Indian Air Force. She traveled 2,000 kilometers by train from her home in the northern state of Haryana to beg the doctors to treat her. "Please admit me," she pleaded.
The lack of affordable treatments is one reason why half of the 700,000 to 900,000 Indians who come down with cancer each year wind up dying—a survival rate half that of developed nations. Kumar thinks he's discovered a low-cost solution.
In this month's issue of the Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine, Vasishta and Kumar describe a device which bombards tumors with electromagnetic radiation, applying a voltage to the membranes of cancer cells. The beams, they think, activate a protein in the cells that kills them. During clinical trials on 33 cancer patients, each given 28 one-hour sessions, the device stopped the growth of tumors in 20 patients, while six others had improved enough after exposure to the beams to undergo successful operations. A 5-year-old boy at Hosmat Hospital in Bangalore receiving treatments for a brain tumor has also shown improvement.
The device may never be a miracle cure for cancer, but it costs a quarter of that of chemotherapy or radiation. For some, that's close enough