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 Passauer Woche, March 8, 2006
Statement by Bavarian Cancer Society:
Comments of the president of the Cancer Society about German New Medicine
”German New Medicine“ (GNM) is the abstruse and pseudo-scientific doctrine of an outsider, which has been developed and propagated by the former medical doctor Dr. med Ryke Geerd Hamer, and is apparently the result of the dramatic death of his son Dirk that caused Hamer’s testicular cancer a few months after his son’s passing.
Recent epidemiologic studies clearly show that there is no increased risk of developing cancer with people who suffer from depressions or from severe psychological stress (Source: Dalton et al. 2002 and 2004).
There is also no evidence that people with a so-called ”cancer personality“, that show certain characteristics and attitudes would be at greater risk of developing cancer (Source: Schwarz et al 2001).
Hamer claims that the cause of every disease, including cancer, is always a ”biological conflict“, a serious dramatic shock, which he calls a ”Dirk Hamer Syndrome“, and which typically shows as a “Hamer Focus“ (German: Hamerscher Herd - HH) on a computer tomogram of the brain. Hence, the resolution of the underlying conflict (”conflictolysis“) is said to be the prerequisite for the natural healing process in every phase of an illness such as cancer. Cancer is, according to Hamer, a ”Significant Biological Special Program (SBS)“ and already part of the healing process itself. Chemotherapy is viewed as a pseudo-treatment that stimulates the cancer growth and is seen as equal to exorcism.
Regretfully, there have been some cases where patients, who blindly turned to his absurd teachings (Hamer promises a 95% success rate with cancer), died despite of a curable disease, like testicular cancer, by depriving themselves from the conventional, allegedly Jewish“, treatment. Several deaths that could have been avoided are documented in Germany as well as in France.
Hamer’s doctrine is irrational and is lacking in scientific or empirical evidence; based on the aforementioned fatalities, it has to be considered as extremely dangerous.
The potential legal consequences for medical doctors, who on the basis of this method discontinue or stop conventional treatments, is to be charged with negligence in providing medical assistance or to possibly lose their medical license.
In 1986, Hamer himself was stripped of his medical license. But, he continued to practice illegally. Since December 2004, he has been imprisoned in France for a 3 year term for the illegal practice of medicine. He is facing other jail sentences in Austria as well as in Germany. The Bavarian Cancer Society expressively warns patients not to trust into this kind of treatment.
All available judicial means must be generated to stop any further dissemination of this doctrine.
Prof. Dr. med. Reiner Hartenstein, President of the Bavarian Cancer Society
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