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Comment More Detail (Score 4, Informative) 157

The article is light on details, but the peer-reviewed article gives this information:

A new FDA-approved treatment involving electric fields alternating at 200 kHz called Optune therapy is now available for recurrent GBM as monotherapy and in combination with temozolomide for newly diagnosed GBM (3, 4). It is also being tested in clinical trials for other cancers. Its hypothesized mechanism of action involves disruption of tubulin dimers, mitotic spindles, and cell division by electric field-induced dipole alignment and dielectrophoresis (5). It has a modest effect on survival, increasing median overall survival by 0.6 month in recurrent GBM (3), and in newly diagnosed GBM by 31% (4). Even this modest effect is encouraging for patients.

It has been shown that electromagnetic fields (EMF) produce anticancer effects in vitro (6, 7). We have conducted preclinical experiments with a new noninvasive wearable device known as an Oncomagnetic device that generates oscillating magnetic fields (OMF) by rotating strong permanent magnets (8, 9). The OMF generating components (oncoscillators) of the device can be attached to a helmet and treatment with the device does not require shaving the head. Using the oncoscillators of the device and specially devised patterns of magnet rotations we have produced strong selective anticancer effects in patient derived GBM and xenografted mouse models without causing adverse effects on cultured normal cells and normal mice (10–12). The mechanism of action of OMF differs from Optune and involves disruption of the electron transport in the mitochondrial respiratory chain causing elevation of reactive oxygen species and caspase-dependent cancer cell death (10–12).

Comment NY Again... (Score 1) 75

New York City and State have a history of bringing these kind of suits in attempts to create law that no legislature will enact. This behavior screams for a reform where the lawyers who bring these cases must be held personally liable for their targets legal fees, with zero indemnity from the public. Trust me, they will stop in a New York nanosecond if that were the case.

Comment The Constitution Is Clear (Score 1) 465

The US Constitution is crystal clear that government may neither force compliance with any religion, nor may it interfere with it. Likewise, the right to peacefully assemble is also part of the First Amendment, and that right can not be violated under any circumstances, even a pandemic. Legally, the Constitution is indeed a suicide pact when it comes to pandemic controls, and has no provision saying "unless we think we really need to".

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