| There has been much interest recently in | | | | assumed. |
| the developments around new medication | | | | If for example, the shock of having a |
| for breast cancer. Perhaps though there | | | | breast amputated (a disfigurement |
| is a simpler, cheaper and more effective | | | | conflict) was not dealt with it can lead |
| way to prevent re occurrence. | | | | to skin cancer on the surgical scars. A |
| Dr R. G. Hamer from Germany claims that | | | | deep self-devaluation conflict (I am |
| through his 20 years of research with | | | | less than I was before) can cause bone |
| over 31,000 patients he has discovered | | | | cancer or affect the lymph nodes. The |
| patterns of emotional shock that can | | | | shock from discovering the cancer has |
| accurately predict the type, and | | | | spread can lead to a death fright |
| location of, a cancer someone is likely | | | | conflict resulting in lung cancer. |
| to develop. | | | | Dr. Hamer firmly believes that if the |
| He discovered after years of study that | | | | conflict is resolved, the cancerous or |
| a right handed woman can develop left | | | | necrotic process is reversed to repair |
| breast cancer if she has an unresolved | | | | the damage and return the individual to |
| mother-child conflict or a | | | | health. This would also support the |
| daughter-mother conflict or is likely to | | | | belief, observations and experiences of |
| develop right breast cancer if she has | | | | those such as Louise Hay, (who claims to |
| unresolved partner conflicts. (Partners | | | | have healed herself from cancer and |
| can include her husband, a friend, a | | | | assisted many others in doing the same), |
| brother or sister, her father, or even | | | | Bernie S Siegel MD (author of 'Love, |
| her business partner. The opposite | | | | Medicine & Miracles'), and Leon Jay (an |
| breast will be affected in a left handed | | | | Auckland based Emotional Release |
| woman. | | | | Therapist). |
| How does metastasis fit into all of | | | | Leon, who sees this pattern in many of |
| this? Well in Dr Hamer's view there is | | | | his clients, says that 'while we are |
| no such thing. While it is true that | | | | unable to say for sure that emotional |
| women often go on to develop further | | | | release of past traumas will prevent |
| cancers such as in the bone, lung or | | | | cancer from returning, I believe it to |
| brain, it is his belief that these come | | | | be one of the most important components |
| from subsequent shocks, not directly | | | | to any cancer treatment. Each client is |
| from the original cancer. There is in | | | | very different, yet the similarities in |
| fact little or no evidence that cancer | | | | nature between the emotional trauma and |
| cells break off and spread as commonly | | | | the cancer type cannot be ignored'. |