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Cancer: A Second Opinion: A Look at Understanding, Controlling, and Curing Cancer
Long before the term “alternative” was part of our medical culture, Dr. Josef Issels created the world’s first fully “integrative” cancer therapy, curing advanced, recurrent cancer. Issels hypothesized that primary and recurrent malignancies result from a tendency of the body to produce tumors. He therefore made use of every weapon in his arsenal to reduce tumors and strengthen the immune response. In A Second Opinion , Issels describes the treatment that produced the most remarkable, independently verified cure rate in medical history.
220 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2005
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August 26, 2018
In America, we are offered three treatments for cancer: surgery, radiation, and chemo. All three attack the tumor. Other approaches are often considered quackery.
Dr. Issels took a different approach. Instead of merely attacking the tumor, he tried to correct the internal milieu that allowed it to develop. He removed the causes of the tumor. He did not rule out conventional treatments, but supplemented them with treatments not widely available in the United States, many of them experimental. He used comprehensive immunotherapy, fever therapy, hyperthermia, neural therapy, “oxidation” therapy, ozone therapy, substitution therapy, diet, non-toxic herbal alkaloids, auto-hormone therapy, in his wholistic approach to cancer. He removed dead teeth and infected tonsils that he believed were sapping the body's resistance. And did he succeed? Sometimes. He achieved significant improvements, in some cases, with terminal patients who had been given up as hopeless by their doctors. He claimed a 17% remission rate, but his program was never finalized. It was always experimental to some degree—trial and error, with mixed results. He was forever looking for new and better approaches. His immunological goals were to restore the patient’s natural resistance and to boost it with exogenous agents such as vaccines.
Dr. Issels insisted that cancer is systemic, a disease of the whole organism, not localized in the tumor. The tumor is only a symptom, not the disease itself. “The cancer disease exists before a tumor forms.” Hence the poor success rates of treatments that only attack the tumor, because two-thirds of cancers have already metastacized when a tumor is diagnosed. He discusses conventional treatments, concluding that their success rates will never exceed 20% while their focuses are tumor-specific.
He discusses hormone and enzyme therapies, viruses, bacterial pathogens, and potential vaccine antidotes.
This book, written in 1973, gets technical, but an intelligent lay reader should be able to grasp most of it. See also "Time to Heal," by Peter Newton-Fenbow, a patient's account of his experience with Dr. Issels.
Dr. Issels took a different approach. Instead of merely attacking the tumor, he tried to correct the internal milieu that allowed it to develop. He removed the causes of the tumor. He did not rule out conventional treatments, but supplemented them with treatments not widely available in the United States, many of them experimental. He used comprehensive immunotherapy, fever therapy, hyperthermia, neural therapy, “oxidation” therapy, ozone therapy, substitution therapy, diet, non-toxic herbal alkaloids, auto-hormone therapy, in his wholistic approach to cancer. He removed dead teeth and infected tonsils that he believed were sapping the body's resistance. And did he succeed? Sometimes. He achieved significant improvements, in some cases, with terminal patients who had been given up as hopeless by their doctors. He claimed a 17% remission rate, but his program was never finalized. It was always experimental to some degree—trial and error, with mixed results. He was forever looking for new and better approaches. His immunological goals were to restore the patient’s natural resistance and to boost it with exogenous agents such as vaccines.
Dr. Issels insisted that cancer is systemic, a disease of the whole organism, not localized in the tumor. The tumor is only a symptom, not the disease itself. “The cancer disease exists before a tumor forms.” Hence the poor success rates of treatments that only attack the tumor, because two-thirds of cancers have already metastacized when a tumor is diagnosed. He discusses conventional treatments, concluding that their success rates will never exceed 20% while their focuses are tumor-specific.
He discusses hormone and enzyme therapies, viruses, bacterial pathogens, and potential vaccine antidotes.
This book, written in 1973, gets technical, but an intelligent lay reader should be able to grasp most of it. See also "Time to Heal," by Peter Newton-Fenbow, a patient's account of his experience with Dr. Issels.
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