{"id":1183,"date":"2014-05-14T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:17:07","slug":"stage-4-cancer-from-desperation-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/stage-4-cancer-from-desperation-to-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 4 Cancer: From Desperation To Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MP9004090251-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"There is Still Hope\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MP9004090251-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MP9004090251-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MP9004090251.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is Still Hope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No other disease carries the aura of fear and panic associated with cancer. Until recently a cancer diagnosis was considered a death warrant. But new discoveries and a move toward integrative cancer treatments have pushed back the shroud of death, <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/integrative-approach-pushes-cancer-survival-rates-beyond-10-year-mark\/\">extending the average cancer survival rate from 5 to 10 years<\/a> \u2013 and many patients are living decades longer. <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/20-drop-in-cancer-death-rates-over-past-20-years\/\">Cancer deaths in the U.S. have been declining<\/a> steadily over the past 20 years. Today, integrative immunotherapy offers even stage 4 cancer patients real hope of long-term remission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 4 Transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many stage 4 cancer patients turn to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Clinics.aspx\">Issels alternative cancer treatment centers<\/a> after traditional cancer treatments have failed. They arrive at our clinics sick and in despair. Many are too ill to walk or talk. Moving beyond standard treatments is an act of desperation &#8212; a final grasp at life \u2013 as it was for Jim Gibson. Jim\u2019s decision to seek <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/stage-4-lung-cancer-patient-10-years-cancer-free-after-issels-integrative-immunotherapy\/\">integrative immunotherapy for recurrent small cell lung cancer<\/a> was a last resort that proved to be both life-saving and life changing. Four weeks after beginning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/TreatmentSummary.aspx\">Issels Treatment\u00ae<\/a>, Jim achieved complete remission. Now 10 years cancer-free, Jim leads a healthy active life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Desperation to Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim\u2019s story is not unique among Issels\u2019 patients. We urge you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Testimonials.aspx\">listen to our patients\u2019 stories<\/a>. Each story is a tale of desperation transformed by hope under the care of Issels compassionate staff. While each patient\u2019s story is unique; many, including patients with stage 4 cancer, have achieved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Cases.aspx\">complete and long-term remission<\/a> of their cancer as a result of Issels non-toxic individualized immunotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>The positive results being achieved with integrative immunotherapy are leading more cancer patients to choose immunotherapy as a primary treatment. As our patient <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/immunotherapy-succeeded-when-standard-treatments-failed-cancer-patient-calls-issels-results-amazing\/\">Nicole revealed in her video<\/a>, \u201cIt would be so nice if I had come here first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No other disease carries the aura of fear and panic associated with cancer. Until recently a cancer diagnosis was considered a death warrant. But new discoveries and a move toward integrative cancer treatments have pushed back the shroud of death, extending the average cancer survival rate from 5 to 10 years \u2013 and many patients &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/stage-4-cancer-from-desperation-to-hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stage 4 Cancer: From Desperation To Hope<\/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":[202,206],"tags":[279,330,329,259],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-stage-four-cancer-treatment","tag-advanced-cancer-therapies","tag-allergies","tag-chemo-alternative","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}