Max was only 5 years old when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in Russia in early 2014. He then underwent tumor removal surgery in South Korea. The pathology results showed a malignant type of astrocytoma. His doctor recommended chemotherapy after the surgery. However, his mother refused chemotherapy, considering Max had suffered from epilepsy since childhood due to a brain injury from an accident when he was only one year old. To find an alternative to chemo, his mother brought Max to Indonesia for ECCT therapy after an MRI showed a recurrence 9 months post-surgery in Korea. Max started using the ECCT device in December 2014. He and his mother stayed in Bali for epilepsy therapy and concurrently used ECCT. MRI scan results after 8 months of use showed Max was clear. Max continued using the ECCT device for up to 5 years. After 5 years of use and with CT scan results showing no recurrence, his mother then requested to change Max’s electric field therapy to help with his epilepsy. After 10 years, Max’s condition is relatively good. Currently, he has moved from Indonesia and lives in Turkey.
Max was born in Russia in 2009. Both his parents are Russian citizens. When he was one year old, Max was involved in an accident that caused a concussion and brain hemorrhage. He was diagnosed with an epidural hematoma on the right side of his brain. Max then underwent surgery to address the brain hemorrhage, followed by the implantation of a platinum plate to replace the damaged skull bone. After the surgery, he frequently experienced seizures, symptoms of epilepsy that affected his development.
At the age of 5, Max suddenly experienced severe seizures unlike his usual ones. After an MRI, a tumor mass was found in the right side of his brain, not the left side that had been operated on. The character of the mass tended to point towards a glioma type, which is malignant. His mother then took him to South Korea for tumor removal surgery. The surgery went smoothly. The pathology results showed it was malignant, astrocytoma type. Given that this type has a high chance of recurrence, his doctor recommended chemotherapy after the surgery. His mother refused chemotherapy, considering Max had experienced seizure symptoms since childhood due to the brain impact and was undergoing therapy for his epilepsy.
Brain trauma due to brain injury, especially severe ones, can increase the risk of brain cancer years later, according to research. However, brain injury is not the primary cause of brain cancer, and this connection does not always occur. Other research related to the mechanism of tumor formation indicates that the emergence of cancer is initiated by a continuous inflammatory process resulting from the accumulation of waste substances in certain parts of the brain, which causes damage to surrounding tissues and forces normal cells to repair that damage by undergoing intensive division. When inflammation occurs continuously due to long-accumulated waste substances, the division process of these normal cells can continue indefinitely, and at that point, mutated genes are also expressed, leading to the appearance of cancer. This continuous inflammatory process easily occurs in cases of impact that cause waste accumulation, such as unclean clotted blood, leading to the emergence of cancer. High-grade glioma brain cancers such as astrocytoma or glioblastoma are one type of brain cancer that can emerge after a history of prior impact.
After the tumor removal surgery in Korea, Max’s mother brought Max to Bali and stayed there for Dolphin therapy to address his epilepsy, while continuing to monitor the tumor’s condition post-surgery. Generally, astrocytoma cancer like Max’s, especially high-grade types, tends to regrow and spread quickly, often requiring additional therapy such as radiation and chemotherapy. The risk of recurrence is higher if these additional therapies are not carried out.
Less than 9 months after the surgery in South Korea, Max’s brain MRI results showed another tumor mass appearing around the previously operated area. His mother’s panic increased, considering the unresolved epilepsy therapy issues for Max, compounded by the recurrence of his cancer, while she tried hard to avoid chemotherapy or radiation so as not to add burden to Max’s epilepsy case.
Hope emerged when his mother read news in the media about the discovery of ECCT in Tangerang, which was widely publicized in mid-2014. From Bali, his mother flew Max to Tangerang to request an ECCT device. His mother’s first question for Max’s case was whether the electric field from the ECCT device could penetrate the platinum metal skull implant in his head and have a therapeutic effect on his tumor.
In principle, because ECCT uses an electrical polarization mechanism, not electrical wave penetration, the presence of a platinum implant with high conductivity like the copper electrodes used in the ECCT device means that electric field polarization still occurs on the surface of the implant plate, so the therapeutic effect is not an issue. Max started using the ECCT device, which is a head covering (helmet), in December 2014.
Generally, Max’s therapy process did not encounter any significant obstacles or complaints. The volume of the mass that grew post-surgery was relatively small, so ECCT therapy merely cleans up residual mass whose concentration level is relatively low, even if it is spread around the former surgical site. ECCT effectiveness depends on the process of eliminating dead cells, not the rate of cell spread, so a low concentration, even if relatively widespread, is easier to treat with ECCT than a highly concentrated mass in one place, like the character of low-malignancy cancer. Max’s brain MRI results after approximately 8 months of use showed the recurrent mass was clear.
Max continued to use the ECCT device for about 5 years as a preventive measure, even after being declared clear. After 5 years of use and with CT scan results also showing it remained clear and no recurrence, Max’s mother requested to change the electric field therapy program from tumor therapy (to kill malignant cells) to nerve cell stimulation to aid with epilepsy-related therapy. After 5 years of using ECCT, Max began electric field stimulation therapy to help manage his epileptic seizures.
10 years since Max first came to C-Care Cancer Research in 2014, his mother sent photos and videos of Max playing on a beach in Turkey. Max and his mother have now moved from Bali and live in Turkey. Max appears healthy, his voice is still clear as usual. May Max remain healthy (WS).
