The Amazing Discoveries of Royal Rife

There are all sorts of treatments for cancer, but to date a “cancer cure” has not been found – or so I thought. In fact, we can’t even agree on the cause or causes of cancer. One thing is for sure: treating cancer – whatever the cause -- is big business and growing.

For some time now I have been reading about the history of cancer research, including Dr. Devra Davis’ book “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” which focuses on environmental toxins and carcinogens. The theme of this book is that economic interests – not science – drives public health policy. The tobacco industry’s 30 year campaign to undermine evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer is but one example Davis cites. If cell phones were definitively proven to lead to brain tumors, do you think the cell phone industry would act any differently than the tobacco companies did?

Another book, “Toxic Treatments: Surviving the Cancer Wars” by Penelope Williams, speaks to how offshore alternative treatments, offered in places like Bermuda and Mexico and often condemned as being scams operated by medical quacks, have, in fact, been started by dedicated cancer researchers who were formerly employed at some of the world’s most prestigious cancer research centers. No doubt there are some medical quacks selling false hope to cancer patients. But surely some alternative treatments have merit, even if the science for why something works is not understood. Being unorthodox and working outside established medical dogma, however, looks to be a lousy career choice for cancer researchers.

One of my friends, who use to work as a consultant to the National Cancer Institute, explained to me how difficult it is to get cancer research funded unless the proposed research falls within the realm of known science and is already “practically proven.”

I think by now anyone interested in cancer research has heard of John Kanzius, a Cape Coral cancer patient who was experimenting with radio waves and nano particles to treat cancers of all sorts. Kanzius was featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes in 2008 as the unlikely, self-taught medical-industry-outsider who just may have found a cure for cancer. The basic idea Kanzius came up with is to inject patients with metallic nano particles that attach to cancer cells and then heat the particles and destroy the cells using harmless radio waves. It’s a breakthrough idea, but it is not exactly new.

Dr. Royal Rife acclaimed by his biographer as “one of the greatest scientific geniuses of the 20th century” was a respected microbiologist and physicist. Rife began researching a cure for cancer in 1920. By 1932 he had isolated a virus found in every form of cancer, called the BX virus, and learned how to destroy it with electromagnetic (radio) frequency waves (the way sound waves can destroy glass.)

Rife worked with the most respected researchers in America in that era. In 1934, a Special Research Committee at University of Southern California oversaw the laboratory research and cancer clinic that treated 16 terminally ill patients with Rife’s frequency machine. All 16 patients in the famous 1934 clinic were “cured” of their cancer within months.

Follow-up clinics run by USC and independent physicians between 1935 and 1937 confirmed the results. So why has no one heard of Royal Rife and his fantastic cancer cure? In the 1987 book called “The Rife Report” biographer, Barry Lynes, assigns primary blame to Morris Fishbein, alleged to be a shakedown artist who headed the all powerful American Medical Association from the mid-1920s until 1949.

When Fishbein’s overtures to buy Rife’s technology were turned away, Lynes alleges Fishbein used his position to shut down Rife’s company and discredit his reputation and research. It’s a complex tale well worth reading.