"Sophia keeps faith in controversial therapy" |
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ROSS TYSON
16/01/2008 7:23:16 AM |
| Turning 17 on Friday, Sophia has been cancer-free for five years after undertaking radiowave therapy developed by Perth doctor John Holt. |
| Speaking as she accompanies radiowave therapy campaigner Jenny Barlow around Griffith, Sophia is in no doubt the controversial treatment achieved what round after round of chemotherapy and radiation therapy could not. |
| “It definitely saved my life,” she said. “I have no doubt about that.” |
| Mrs Barlow is in Griffith to meet Sophia and drum up support for the alternative therapy. |
| A tireless advocate of Dr Holt’s work after her late husband Ross had his life prolonged by the therapy, Mrs Barlow is trying to establish a clinic in Sydney to treat cancer sufferers on the eastern seaboard. |
| “I want the treatment Sophia has had to be another option for people with cancer,” Mrs Barlow said. |
| “After 40 years, chemotherapy results are looking at a success rate of just 2 to 4 per cent. So the public needs to ask, why are we doing the same thing for such little result?” |
| Not only does Mrs Barlow proclaim the treatment is more effective in healing cancer, but as Sophia can attest, there are few if any side effects compared to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
| So intense was Sophia’s radiation exposure that her hair follicles were permanently damaged. |
| Through the generosity of former cricketer Shane Warne and the Advanced Hair Studio,
however, Sophia received a hair transplant in time for her Year 10 formal just over a year ago. |
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| Sophia Raso and Jenny Barlow |
