History
Josef M. Issels, M.D. was a world renowned pioneer
of integrative cancer medicine.
In 1951 in Germany, Dr. Issels was the first to open a hospital for conventionally incurable cancer patients specializing in comprehensive immunotherapy.
He was the first to integrate conventional and alternative/complementary treatments into a very comprehensive treatment program that not only focuses on
the cancer cells and tumors but also, with the same
importance, on the regulatory, repair and immune
mechanisms of the cancer afflicted person as a whole.
This concept was revolutionary. It went beyond the
limitations of the tumor-centered conventional concept
and inevitably aroused opposition from some chapters
of the cancer establishment. In view
of his expertise and results, Dr. Josef Issels was invited to
serve as an expert member of the German Federal Government Commission in the Fight against Cancer from 1981 until his
retirement in 1987.
Dr. Issels became internationally known for his outcomes in the treatment of cancer patients who had exhausted all standard treatments. They suffered from advanced cancers of the bladder, bones, brain, breast, cervix, colon, liver, lung, ovaries, prostate, stomach, testicles, thyroid, sarcomas, lymphomas, and leukemias. After completion of the Issels Treatment, these patients remained cancer free for up to 50 years, leading normal healthy lives.
A review of 370 cancer patients with various cancers revealed the following:
As follow-up treatment shortly after primary standard treatments such as surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, the Issels Treatment also significantly reduced the rate of recurrence from 50 percent, according to world statistics, to 13 percent thereby increasing the cure rate from 50 to 87 percent.
The Issels Treatment was able to reverse or improve chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, Grave's disease, systemic lupus, Sjoegren's syndrome, etc.
Dr. Issels pursued research on immunological and microbial aspects of cancer etiology since 1948, and established several research departments in his hospital from its inception. In 1970, the Issels hospital grew from 85 to 120 patient beds, and expanded its extensive research facilities, including the immunological, microbiological, dental and hyperthermia departments. 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.
In 1958, Dr. Issels appointed Dr. Franz Gerlach as the Director of Research of the microbiological department of the Issels hospital. Dr. Gerlach was a professor of the University of Vienna, Austria, and represented Austria at the 1946 International Conference of Microbiology of Cancer. He worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, was a Fellow of the reputable Academy of Medicine in Paris, among other institutions, and was well known to cancer specialists all over the world for his research on mycoplasmas and cancer. Dr. Issels' hospital became the only such institution of the era to conduct research on mycoplasmas in cancer and chronic degenerative diseases.
A variety of studies in Dr. Issels' microbiological department confirmed that mycoplasma species can be causative or co-factors in the development of cancer. For example, after cell free depot inoculation of mycoplasmas under
the skin of 209 albino mice, 90.9% developed all types of malignancies, whereas of 600 control animals which were not inoculated, only 0.83% developed cancer.
Dr. Issels was also a leading pioneer of the immunological and microbiological approach to cancer and at the forefront of holistic integrative cancer medicine. Since the late 1960’s, all German insurance companies including the equivalent of US Medicare covered the treatment at Dr. Issels' hospital. In 1970, the British Broadcasting Corporation, London, aired a 60-minute TV documentary in its Tomorrow's World Program on Dr. Issels' work. From 1981 until his retirement in 1987, Dr. Issels served as an expert member of the German Federal Government Commission in the Fight Against Cancer.
Dr. Issels authored over 50 papers and three monographs on his treatment for cancer and its results and lectured at international conferences. Independent statistical studies have been published in peer reviewed medical journals.
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