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