Bangalore-based Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD) along with the Institute of Aviation Medicine researchers have developed a treatment mode using Rotational Field Quantum Magnetic Resonance (RFQMR), a non-invasive method to treat terminally ill cancer patients and osteoarthritis cases.

CARD has applied for an international patent for the machine. A two-year project to assess the efficacy of RFQMR in cancer patients will be taken up from July 15, 2004. CARD is planning to build a second prototype of the RFQMR by next month.

The treatment using RFQMR in tissue regeneration and tissue engineering is said to be the first-of-its-kind in the world. This methodology can also provide treatment for temporary mandibular joint disease, tinnitus, migraine, tendonitis, diabetic neuropathy apart from degenerating and destroying tumours.

The Institute of Aviation Medicine claims to have treated 36 patients with severe osteoarthritis and two cancer patients using RFQMR.

Wg. Cmdr. VG Vasistha, head, department of radio diagnostic, Institute of Aviation Medicine said, "RFQMR uses high power quantum electromagnetic beams to regenerate and degenerate tissues. The process, which was in theory till now, has been put into practise using RFQMR."

RFQMR produces high power and multi frequency rotating quantum electromagnetic beams from 96 guns that are focussed on the tissue or the organ to regenerate or degenerate cells. The beams regenerate tissues, bone and cartilage in arthritis. For cancer patients, the beams are used to degenerate cancerous tissues, he said.

The pilot diagnostics carried during the last six months on both osteoarthritis and cancer patients have yielded results. The osteoarthritis patients were exposed to RFQMR beams for one hour a day for 21 days. All the patients had severe pain of long duration and severe limitation of movements. The only alternate was surgery. The results of all patients showed positive results and they stopped taking painkillers by the fourth exposure. By the end of treatment most patients could walk up to 5 km without pain and 16 could squat which they could not do earlier. The patients did not require knee replacement surgery any more, he said.