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<<  Josef M. Issels, MD
 Holistic Comprehensive Immunotherapy, The Issels Treatment


 Josef M. Issels, MD, has become internationally known for his remarkable rate
 of complete long-term remissions of "incurable cancers" in patients who had
 exhausted all standard treatments, such as advanced cancers
 of the breast, uterus, prostate, colon, liver, lung, BRAIN, sarcomas,
 lymphomas, and leukemias. After completion of the Issels Treatment, these
 patients remained cancer free for up to 45 years, leading normal healthy
 lives. The Issels Treatment also significantly reduced the incidence of
 recurrent cancer after surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, thereby
 considerably improving cure rates.

 The Issels Treatment was able to reverse chronic degenerative diseases such
 as arthritis, lupus, Grave's disease, Sjoegren's syndrome, asthma, etc.

 In 1951 Dr. Issels founded the first hospital in Europe for comprehensive
 immunotherapy of cancer. He was the Medical Director and Director of
 Research. In 1970 the hospital was enlarged from 80 to 120 patient beds. It
 contained extensive research facilities including immunological and
 microbiological laboratories. The Hospital's programs included research on
 TUMOR vaccines, mycoplasma and bacterial vaccines inducing fever,
 hyperthermia, etc. Ninety percent of the patients treated at the hospital had
 exhausted standard cancer treatment.

 From 1981 until 1987, Dr. Issels served as an expert member of, and advisor
 to, the Commission of the German Federal Government in the Fight Against
 Cancer.

 Dr. Issels presented many papers to national and international medical
 congresses and within programs of continuing education. He also published
 three monographs.

 Dr. Issels' Concept of the Development of Cancer and Its Treatment

 The Issels Treatment is based on the concept that malignant TUMORs do not
 develop in a healthy body with intact defense and repair functions. They
 present in a specific internal environment which promotes their growth. This
 environment develops over a period of time due to multiple causes and
 conditions which persist and remain chronically active even after removal of
 the TUMOR (by surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy). These remaining
 causes are responsible for the formation of new TUMORs which occur after
 local treatment in every second cancer patient, according to World statistics.


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 Therefore, the Issels Treatment program places equal importance on the
 removal of the TUMOR itself and on the causes and conditions leading to the
 body's tendency to develop malignant TUMORs.

 The Issels Treatment is based on the following concept:
 Pre-and postnatal endogenous and exogenous causal factors (I) can lead by
 mutagenic, toxic, sensitizing or neural effects via the transit mesenchyme to
 secondary damages to organs and organ systems and so to functional
 disturbances of the neural, hormonal, excretory and defense systems (II).

 These secondary damages and especially the disturbance of the detoxification
 system deteriorate the internal environment , and can lead to complex
 metabolic disturbances which are common to all chronic disease and cancer.

 Further constant influence of the causal factors and the persistence of
 secondary damages can produce a functional imbalance and deteriorate the
 defense and repair mechanisms. Depending on inherited constitution and
 disposition, this can develop into a chronic degenerative disease and a
 "TUMOR-milieu," (III) the ideal medium for cancer cells and micro-organisms
 found in cancer to grow. The body has acquired the tendency to produce
 malignant TUMORs.

 With the manifestation of the TUMOR (IV), the cancer disease enters the
 recognizable phase. At this time, conventional cancer treatment begins with
 the weapons directed against the cancer TUMOR and its symptoms (V).

 According to the concept that cancer starts as a locally confined growth, all
 measures concentrated on the TUMOR alone seem causal and exhaustive.

 Treating the TUMOR alone is not treating the condition that is producing it:
 the underlying cancer disease. Consequently, there is a high rate of relapse.

 According to the comprehensive concept, however, cancer is considered a
 systemic disease from the onset and the TUMOR as its late stage symptom.

 Following this concept the Issels Treatment has two lines of approach which
 are of equal importance and complement each other.

 A non-specific basic therapy aiming to eliminate the causal factors, repair
 damages of the early stages, normalize the internal milieu, and restore the
 immune and repair functions.

 A specific therapy directed against the TUMOR itself, such as surgery,
 radiation, chemo/hormone therapy, hyperthermia, and cancer vaccines.
 The non-specific basic therapy corresponds with the etiological path leading
 to the immuno-insufficiency and the cancer disease. It is modified to suit
 the individual patient's needs. It consists of:

 Elimination of causal factors, such as head foci of infection including
 dental, alveolar and tonsillar foci, malnutrition, abnormal intestinal flora,
 fields of neural disturbance, physical and chemical exogenous factors,
 endogenous and psychological factors.

 Desensitization of the organism which has been sensitized by causal factors
 by administration of autohemolysates and colloids.

 Treatment of secondary damages, metabolic disturbances, the impaired
 detoxification and the resulting defense weakness, by general measures, such
 as hyperpyrexia or fever therapy, oxygen therapy, enzyme-therapy,
 neural-therapy and organ-therapy, as well as substitution /supplementation
 according to individual requirements.
 The basic therapy is a long-term one without any toxic side effects and aims
 at the regeneration of the "big resistance," which comprises all the defense
 zones:

 The extracorporal zone consisting of the physiological obligatory microflora
 which is responsible for the basic immunity of the organism.

 The epithelial zone consisting of all epithelial surfaces which performs
 defense, filtration, excretion and absorption.

 The lympho-reticulo defense zone which performs the important tasks of
 phagocytosis, antibody production and detoxification. On this zone,
 immunotherapy is mainly centered today.

 The reticulo-histiocytary zone, which has been neglected in cancer therapy
 and research, is the pluripotent mesenchyme embracing almost half of the body
 weight. It is of great importance to all defensive processes with its various
 functions:

 the stemcell function;

 the transit function that intervenes between all nerves, organ cells, blood,
 lymphatic and intestinal cells;

 the homeostatic function;

 the defense, detoxification and storage functions.
 These defense zones are successive, are closely interrelated and are under
 neuro-hormonal control.

 The blockade of only one function of one of these zones,  for example of the
 excretion, or even the blockade of the control system such as the autonomous
 nervous system may contribute indirectly to a lowering of the defense
 potential. During treatment, it was repeatedly observed that by the
 elimination of head foci, or with a fever therapy a blockade of the
 neuro-hormonal functions was broken.

 Even in an advanced state of malignant disease an immune reaction with
 complete TUMOR remission can be reached.

 Holistic comprehensive immunotherapy opens up the following therapeutic
 possibilities:

 Treatment of cancer of all kinds and stages offering a considerable chance of
 recovery even for patients in advanced stages who have exhausted all standard
 treatments.

 Follow-up treatment to prevent recurrence after standard cancer therapy
 through restoration of the patient's defense and repair functions (the World
 rate of recurrence is 50%).

 Nontoxic preventive treatment for patients at risk, and those with
 precancerous diseases.

 Preparatory treatment prior to surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy to reduce
 the risk of complications and in qualified cases, to render inoperable TUMORs
 operable.

 Treatment of chronic degenerative diseases which are untreatable by standard
 methods.
 A system of monitoring regulative functions on a day by day basis is an
 essential tool to determine the effectiveness of the treatment. Therefore,
 during his 40 years of experience at the sickbed, Dr. Issels developed a
 system to enable optimum individualized application of the treatment
 modalities.

 Now Available! The Issels Cancer Follow-Up and Preventative Resort Program!



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