The E-Meter Papers

Linking Electrical Currents and Cancer Growth

From: "Cross Currents" by Robert O. Becker, MD
Published by Tarcher Putnam ISBN 0-87477-6-9-0

It seems to me that any electrical technique capable of
stimulating bone growth might also stimulate other types of
growth. In 1981 I experimented with human cancer cells in
culture, exposing them to levels of DC current equivalent to
those present in the area of soft tissue of a bone nonunion
treated with the 10 microampere technique.

The cancer cells exposed to these electrical factors grew at
least 300 percent faster than the controls. I was surprised to
find that this significant increase in grwoth occurred at both
the negative and positive electrodes.

Further it showed that the DC Current devices, approved by the
FDA, were promoters of cancer growth. I reported my results in
one of the orthopedic journals, pointing out that the approved DC
current technque might stimulate the growth of an unsuspected
cancer anywhere in the current pathway.

In 1981, a team of Japanese investigators reported that mouse
bone-cancer cells treated with the same DC technique increased
their DNA synthesis (a measure of cell replication) by about
200 percent, substantiating my results.

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