Electrochemical (Tumor) Therapy - ECT

GALVANOTHERAPY

Contemporary, alternative cancer therapy uses a method already discovered by the Italian biophysicist Luigi Galvani (1737 – 1798) in the 18th century. In his time, Galvani was a well-known medical practitioner and anatomist who had discovered a correlation between muscle movements and electricity and used weak electric currents to treat various diseases. The therapy was thus named after Galvani and has been further improved in the following centuries. It is widely used in orthopaedics and neurology for the treatment of arthritis and deteriorations of the musculoskeletal system. In cancer treatment the use of galvanic electricity is relatively new. It is based on the research of the medical scientists Rudolf Pekar and Bjoern Nordenstroem. In 1988, Nordenstroem introduced the treatment he named bio-electric/electrochemical therapy (BET/ECT) to China where, today, the effective and cost-efficient therapy is performed in more than 108 hospitals. The therapy is also successfully used in Germany, Austria, Denmark, the USA and Italy.