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Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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First time it really hits home how large the risk is. 1/6 is a rather large risk.

The lifetime cancer risk is ~50% (all cancers) Most of them are caused by lifestyle/environment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/

How credible is this paper? I see it's highly cited, but I also see that it claims that fungi are cancer causing but not also cancer preventing, which seems questionable.

Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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Seems like it comes with serious risk of complications. Here's a news article in Danish about NanoKnife from 2019: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/kontant/kraeftramte-thomas-b...

Google Translated: https://www-dr-dk.translate.goog/nyheder/penge/kontant/kraef...

Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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I heard an interview on one of NPR shows last week and the guest talked about using electricity for healing. For example, if I remember correctly, a wound treated in someway with electricity healed faster. It had something to do with stimulating the cells in a particular way.

Side note: Does this give any credibility to the idea that magnets can heal?

Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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Is this similar to rife machines that you can use at home? Essentially frequency generators.

I would not try doing this at home.

My reply is totally against the guidelines, but the image of some bio-curious hacker sticking needles in the perineum and putting high voltages on them in a home lab is such an absurd mixture of horror and embarassement that your sane reply had me in stitches.

Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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I heard an interview on one of NPR shows last week and the guest talked about using electricity for healing. For example, if I remember correctly, a wound treated in someway with electricity healed faster. It had something to do with stimulating the cells in a particular way. Side note: Does this give any credibility to the idea that magnets can heal?

The mechanism used here is that high voltage causes cells to open channels through the cell wall, letting good cell stuff out and bad stuff in. Do it enough and the cell will die. I'm no biologist but I don't know of a similar magnetic mechanism.

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Electrical pulse ablation technology has been around a while, with multiple studies performed and a large body of patents. The promise and hope for the technology is that is causes cell apoptosis, and early rat studies showed electrical ablation shrinking tumors. The goal was/is to apply it to multiple cancer types. Source: I helped with one of the pioneering companies in the field. A quick internet search for "elect…

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Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

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I heard an interview on one of NPR shows last week and the guest talked about using electricity for healing. For example, if I remember correctly, a wound treated in someway with electricity healed faster. It had something to do with stimulating the cells in a particular way. Side note: Does this give any credibility to the idea that magnets can heal?

You may be referring to this[0], which was discussed on HN last week.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060657

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