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Cancer: A Second Opinion

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This book is perhaps the most important book written on cancer in the twentieth century. This is because Josef Issels demonstrated in his Cancer Clinic in Bavaria the most successful results ever achieved with late stage cancer patients (16.6% five-year survival and 15% fifteen-year survival - more than 5 times better than any orthodox therapy before or since.
Recent evidence continues to question the current paradigm that cancer is a local disease that later spreads. Issels instead saw cancer as a systemic disease that in its later stages showed observable symptoms, the tumours. Treating the tumours was therefore a waste of time unless the cause was tackled. He saw the causes as many, including physical, emotional and spiritual so he tackled all possibilities with dedication and a caring approach. The only contributing factor he apprently underestimated was the emotions. Four well-run randomised trials have since shown that simply tackling the emotional causes can have dramatic results, typically 50-70% increased survival times. But his Wholebody-therapy he used in the 1960s has still not been matched by any of the other alternative cancer therapists since. The book gives a history of the treatment of cancer over the past few thousands of years and goes into a lot of well-documented factors that make up his total treatment. For those who want to understand the cancer process this book is essential reading.

The one word that can ruin your day, actually ruin your life is Cancer. My wife and I are fighting and I mean fighting! We are very careful who we talk to and what we read and listen to. This book is for fighters. If your fight currently involves that nasty word (cancer), get this book and strengthen your fight. Also check out the Oasis of Hope Hospital and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Keep Fighting!

In America, we are told that only three treatments are available for cancer: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Anything else is considered quackery or is illegal. All three attack the tumor.

Dr. Issels took a different approach. Instead of attacking the tumor directly, he corrected the internal milieu of the body that allowed it to develop. He removed the external and internal causes of the tumor. He did not rule out conventional treatments, but supplemented them with fever therapy, ozone therapy, hot ether therapy, substitution therapy, hormone therapy, enzymes, diet, non-toxic herbal alkaloids, in his whole-body approach to cancer. Whatever was appropriate. He removed dead teeth and infected tonsils that he believed to be sapping the body's resistance. He used immunotherapy, in which he injected antigens to stimulate resistance. And did he succeed? Apparently. He claimed a 17% remission rate, while working with "incurable" terminal patients. I cannot agree with his dietary, as it permits grains, milk, and sea salt. But otherwise it has some merit.

This book was written for lay readers. There is some medical jargon here, 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.