To that #92 schang1984: Just no.

DI Article but I would have to see some more trials done and a bit more research into this method to be 100% sold.

Food for thought: Would it be possible (if the cancer was diagnosed early enough) to attenpt hightening the immune system using “Coley’s Toxins” and see if there is any slowing or shrinking of the cancer and then if there is no change start on radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments? Possible early trial methods?

see:

http://www.treat-cancer.info/

My hope is that one day that chemotherapy agents will be discarded as the state of the art in treatment improves.
Perhaps older treatments such as coleys toxins should be revisited and given scientific scrutiny. For the sake of my patients and their families, I hope and pray that we beat this scourge on mankind

here’s an lymphoma remission story using DCA B1 vitamine protocol:
http://forums.cancer.vc/hematologic-blood/54-ds-lymphoma-story.html
and here are other remissions:

http://forums.cancer.vc/hematologic-blood/62-case-non-hodgkins-lymphoma-apparent-complete-remission.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/genitourinary-cancer/48-wim-huppes-prostate-cancer-story.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/genitourinary-cancer/55-ps-kidney-cancer-story.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/lung-cancer/56-tom-mcghees-nearly-full-remission-non-small-cell-lung-cancer.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/lung-cancer/63-lung-cancer-remission-dca.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/digestive-gastrointestinal/47-colo-rectal-cancer-story.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/digestive-gastrointestinal/57-bills-bile-duct-cancer-story.html
http://forums.cancer.vc/digestive-gastrointestinal/81-gastro-intestinal-stromal-tumors-dca.html

for more info on alternative therapies and dca see http://forums.cancer.vc and for additional info see http://puredca.com and http://cancer.vc

I believe, along with others, that with sufficient bio-informatics analysis techniques we’ll be able to develop targeted therapies which address the specific genetic abnormality of every different type of cancer. We have a ways to go yet to reach that point, but I’m sure the day will come. We’d be better off spending money working on these therapies rather than embryonic stem cell research which promise the world but are actually a long way off from delivering. Don’t get me wrong, stem cells are exciting as hell and promising, but all the controversy surrounding it has unfortunately lead people to believe that stem cells are some sort of cure-all – if only the nefarious religious people would get out of the way. Far, far from it, sadly. I wish that were the case!

Let’s not mention HMO “risk managers” that weight the cost of exam, treatment with the patient’s life versus profit. These gods have it easy because they never have to bother with meeting people face-to-face who’s coverage / claims they’ve denied.

Good news, joefyn and Radiatidon. There are working “Coley’s Toxins” in use today!

I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in February of 2003. In my initial meetings with my oncologist, he introduced me to a “new” drug that had the highest known success rate at the time. This drug was developed from the interferon studies, and uses a naturally-occuring chemical in the body called interlukin. The drug is Interlukin II – a lab-manufactured interkukin “super booster”. Instead of tearing down the immune system, like chemotherapy, it super-charges it. One of its effects is to make the white blood cells even more aggressive in killing the cancer cells.

Prior to starting the treatment, I was told about the relatively poor results of traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatment. And having watched my own mother and grandmother pass away after their own experiences with chemotherapy, I expected the worst.

I am happy to tell you two things: One, it wasn’t that bad. Each treatment cycle was like having the flu for a week. Two, it worked spectacularly. I have been cancer free since November of 2005! Do I consider myself lucky? You’d better believe it! The mortality rate for patients who are treated for melanoma is less than 10%! If I remain cancer free for another three years, there is very little chance that it will ever return!

Interlukin II isn’t for every type of cancer, but as I can attest myself, it works very well on melanoma. There are other “Coley’s Toxins” being developed today that focus on other types of cancer. I know that there is another drug available for pancreatic cancer, for breast cancer, and for several other soft-tissue cancers.

Thank you Matt…and Alan. And I hope that any DI readers who first hear their doctor utter the dreaded “C” word get a chance to read this article. There really is hope out there.

p.s.

Has anyone submitted an article about gamma knife procedures? If not, I’d be interested in working on such an article. It reminded me of something that Dr. Leonard McCoy might have administered…”[/quote]

Can you give me the name of your doctor? I am looking into alternative treatment, preferably Coley’s Toxins, and am having a terrible time finding a single doctor who will administer it!
Thanks!

To everybody who said that they would rather be infected than submit themselves to radiation treatments (I am not a doctor so I could just be misinformed): The bug C sucks no matter what. I would have to assume that medical professionals have previously weighed the risks and benefits of each different treatment ( Coley’s Toxins WERE used in the past, and documented, mind you) and made an educated decision on which were most effective.

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If you notice in the aticle it states that in 1999 that this was found to be at least as affective as modern treatment options. It seems the only reasons this was shunned was because the scientists couldn’t figure out the exact way this worked and they had a version they had created and was all new and shiny so decided in favor of it. What I don’t understand is why they don’t use them both. If one way doesn’t work why not try the other. My grandfather has been battling cancer of his intestines for about 8 years. 8 years of chemo/radiation and surgery. It just keeps coming back. I can’t help but wonder and hope that this could have an impact on his condition for the better…

It strikes me from your syntax that you are from the middle east, and that English is not your native tongue.

I am always heartened whenever I hear a doctor go against the conclusions of mainstream medicine, not because their opinions are always correct. Often they do not turn out. Still, it is the questioning attitude that is important.

An area of interest of my own, for the last twenty-five years has been the prophylactic prevention of viral respiratory disease. I am always delighted to share it with open minded doctors, since they so often begin to employ it themselves, and to share it with their patients. So this is for you doctor, and for the other astute readers on this site who do not litter it with nonsense in the comment sections.
http://www.skincell.org/community/index.php/topic,19899.0.html

While experimentation still occurs, the results are such that the efficacy of the basic procedure, as it has been done all these years, has been established without any question.