{"id":1177,"date":"2014-05-12T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:19:05","slug":"integrative-immunotherapy-cancer-treatment-that-improves-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/integrative-immunotherapy-cancer-treatment-that-improves-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrative Immunotherapy: Cancer Treatment that Improves Quality of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9004308891-200x146.jpg\" alt=\"Relax\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9004308891-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9004308891-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9004308891.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cancer treatment and quality of life often generally considered mutually exclusive terms. When surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the only options, cancer patients often find the \u201ccure\u201d to be as painful and damaging to their well-being as &#8212; and sometimes worse &#8212; than the disease.<\/p>\n<p>If the lessons of history hold true, today\u2019s standard cancer treatments will someday be considered barbaric. Even if cancer is not completely preventable in the future, it is likely that surgery, chemotherapy and radiation will be replaced by kinder, gentler, more effective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/TreatmentSummary.aspx\">cancer treatments<\/a> that do not rely on destroying the body to heal it. We are already heading in that direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immunotherapy: Natural Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/integrated-immunotherapy-a-safer-way-to-fight-cancer\/\">Integrative immunotherapy<\/a>, which has formed the basis of Issels\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/alternative-therapies-relieve-cancer-symptoms-promote-healing\/\">holistic cancer treatments<\/a> for more than 60 years, has allowed many cancer patients to treat their cancer <em>and<\/em> enjoy a better quality of life. Issels\u2019 unique record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Cases.aspx\">complete and long-term remission of advanced cancers<\/a> and cancers that had proven resistant to the standard cancer treatments favored by practitioners of Western medicine demonstrates that cancer can be successfully fought by tapping into the body\u2019s own natural defense mechanism \u2013 our immune system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emphasis On Quality of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, Western cancer researchers are coming to the same conclusions that have driven Issels\u2019 alternative cancer therapies for decades:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have begun to recognize <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/why-cancer-patients-should-consider-immunotherapy\/\">the power of the body\u2019s immune system<\/a> to fight cancer without causing patients additional harm.<\/li>\n<li>They have begun to realize that fighting cancer requires an integrative approach that attacks cancer on multiple levels.<\/li>\n<li>They are beginning to understand that cancer patients want and deserve to enjoy a high quality of life both during and after treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Clinics.aspx\">Issels alternative cancer treatment centers<\/a>, you do not have to choose between treatment and quality of life \u2013 we offer both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer treatment and quality of life often generally considered mutually exclusive terms. When surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the only options, cancer patients often find the \u201ccure\u201d to be as painful and damaging to their well-being as &#8212; and sometimes worse &#8212; than the disease. If the lessons of history hold true, today\u2019s standard cancer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/integrative-immunotherapy-cancer-treatment-that-improves-quality-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Integrative Immunotherapy: Cancer Treatment that Improves Quality of Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[319,218,259],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-immunotherapy","tag-advanced-caner-treatment","tag-alternative-cancer-therapies","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","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=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}