The Issels Treatment
The Issels Treatment™, which includes the Issels Cancer Vaccines, has become internationally known for its remarkable rate of documented complete long-term remissions of "incurable cancers" in patients who had exhausted all standard treatments. After completion of the Issels Treatment, these patients remained cancer free for up to 50 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.
Dr. Josef M. Issels developed the comprehensive Issels Treatment concept that focuses on both the cancer tumors and the internal bodily environment which promotes the tumor growth. It is a holistic integrative approach to the management of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases.
The Issels Treatment is based on the following concepts:
- Malignant tumors do not develop in a healthy body with intact defense and repair functions.
- Cancer presents in a specific internal environment which promotes their growth.
- This environment develops due to multiple causes and conditions which vary from one individual to the other.
- These causes remain chronically active even after removal of the tumor by surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy.
- 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.
Issels Comprehensive Treatment
The Issels Treatment is a very comprehensive, non-toxic strategy for cancer of all types and stages, and always tailored to individual needs.
The treatment program consists of:
1. Specific Therapy Components, which are directed against the malignant tumor itself, such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and cancer vaccines;
2. Non-Specific Therapy Components, which aim to eliminate causal factors, repair damages of the early stages, normalize the internal environment, and restore the body's regulatory, repair and defense mechanisms.
Issels Cancer Vaccines
Extensive experience with the effective integration of cancer vaccines into a comprehensive personalized treatment program has made the Issels Treatment achieve a unique track record of unusual success. The comprehensive non-toxic Issels Treatment including the vaccine program distinguishes itself decisively from the mere administration of vaccines.
Extracorporeal photopheresis with the autologous dendritic cell vaccine (FDA-approved for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma due to research by Richard L. Edelson, Yale University), works in the following way:
Via the Photopheresis device, pathogens and abnormal cells are destroyed through exposure to ultraviolet light, which also has an enormous immune-boosting effect. During this procedure, monocytes are separated from the blood then cultured to maturity; converting them to active Dendritic cells. These are injected into the patient in small customized doses over several months.
Dendritic cells are responsible for identifying pathogens (viruses, fungi, bacteria) and malignant cells, by presenting their identifying markers (antigens) to specific T lymphocytes, which then multiply and attack only the identified diseased cells, not normal healthy cells.Issels' autologous vaccine. This vaccine works in a very complex way to enhance the immune functions. It is prepared from the patient's own blood, which represents his/her own unique internal environment. The preparation follows procedures that favor the development of antigenic peptides and other immunogenic compounds in the fight against cancer and other immune disorders.
Coley's mixed bacterial vaccine. This vaccine opens blockades in the body matrix (all solid, semi-solid and fluid connective tissues), stimulates the production of the body's own interferons, interleukins, colony stimulating factors, tumor necrosis factor and other potent disease fighters.
Non-Specific Therapy
The Non-Specific Therapy is essential for optimizing the effectiveness of the vaccines. It is always personalized and is comprised of components that have been proven over many years to enhance one another. The treatment is designed to remove causal factors, repair damages and restore immunities. It attacks cancer indirectly by eliminating the preconditions for its thriving and helps prevent disease progression and recurrence.
The treatment includes but is not limited to nutritional immunotherapy, autohemotherapy, enzymatic therapy, oxidative therapies, photoluminescence therapy (ultaviolet light therapy), polarizing solutions, glandulars, phytotherapy, homeopathy, intravenous nutrition, nutraceuticals, psychological guidance, physical therapy, and more.
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