William Coley refined his discovery into a treatment called "Coley Toxins" that was a mainstream cancer therapy for decades. Then, with the advent of x-rays and radium implants, Coley Toxins declined in popularity. The final blow was the introduction of chemotherapy in the 1950s when, with modern medicine on the verge of curing cancer, Coley’s discovery faded into obscurity.
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the first immune therapy for cancer. In 1999, a research study concluded that five-year survival of historical cancer patients treated with Coley Toxins was statistically indistinguishable from modern patients. Five-year survival, however, is not what is needed. What is needed is a cure, and in this regard modern therapies that damage the immune system have taken us in the wrong direction. Today, fifty years after the introduction of chemotherapy, cancer mortality rates are higher than in 1950.
William Coley developed his therapy after investigating the case of a patient whose terminal cancer spontaneously regressed. Spontaneous regression, the disappearance of cancer in the absence of medical treatment, is apparently miraculous, but it is real. Leading medical journals have published more than one thousand case studies that document the spontaneous regression of all types of cancer, yet these inspiring stories are little known to the general public.
"Spontaneous Regression – Cancer And The Immune System" is a medical exploration, written in non-technical language, of the roles of genetics, lifestyle, diet, infection and the power of the mind, in the cause and treatment of cancer.
