{"id":1160,"date":"2014-04-30T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:29:08","slug":"integrated-immunotherapy-a-safer-way-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/integrated-immunotherapy-a-safer-way-to-fight-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Immunotherapy: A Safer Way to Fight Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen 14-year-old Nick Wilkins\u2019 leukemia resisted chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant, his doctors turned to the real pros: Nick\u2019s own immune cells,\u201d John Bonifield of CNN recently wrote on Click2Houston.com<\/a>. After two months of targeted immunotherapy, Nick\u2019s cancer \u201cwent into complete remission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick\u2019s experience was not unique. Eighteen of the 21 other young cancer patients participating in a University of Pennsylvania study on the effectiveness of immunotherapy-based advanced targeted therapies<\/a> also experienced complete remission of their cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is absolutely one of the more exciting advances I\u2019ve seen in cancer therapy in the last 20 years,\u201d Dr. David Porter, Penn hematologist and oncologist, told CNN. \u201cWe\u2019ve entered into a whole new realm of medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

While some of the approaches to targeted cancer therapy are certainly new \u2013 recent advances in cellular and genetic medicine have made it possible to target specific genes and cell functions at a level not previously available \u2013 employing the body\u2019s immune system to target cancer is a tried and true, rather than a \u201cnew,\u201d approach. Issels Integrative Oncology Centers<\/a> have been using individualized immunotherapy<\/a> to treat cancer for more than 60 years! (Learn more about Issels\u2019 history<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Penn cancer researchers are not the only ones belatedly recognizing the advantages the immune system offers in the fight against cancer. In an earlier post on targeted therapy<\/a>, we quoted immunologist Gordon Freeman of Boston\u2019s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who presaged the Penn findings when he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immune system is an evolutionary learning system. If you can engage it and get it to work successfully, it learns how to attack the cancer. And the wonderful thing is that it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit our website<\/a> to find out about integrative immunotherapy, a safe, effective, non-toxic way to treat cancer that is revolutionizing cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen 14-year-old Nick Wilkins\u2019 leukemia resisted chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant, his doctors turned to the real pros: Nick\u2019s own immune cells,\u201d John Bonifield of CNN recently wrote on Click2Houston.com. After two months of targeted immunotherapy, Nick\u2019s cancer \u201cwent into complete remission.\u201d Nick\u2019s experience was not unique. Eighteen of the 21 other young … Continue reading Integrated Immunotherapy: A Safer Way to Fight Cancer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,216],"tags":[279,259],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-immunotherapy","tag-advanced-cancer-therapies","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}