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успешно лечение на рак - 2007/04/23 23:49
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Health and Behaviour
Vaccine Against Cancer
By Tijn Touber
Using Patients' Own "Killer" Cells To Battle Cancer
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Oncologist Robert Gorter is seeing success in using patients’ own “killer” cells to battle cancer. Ode visited his clinic in Cologne, Germany.
Six months. That was how long 59-year-old Joe Pacini was expected to live—at least according to the doctors who were treating him for pancreatic cancer. Pacini, who could barely walk, wrote his will and waited for the inevitable end. Then he got a call from his son, who had attended a lecture by Robert Gorter, a Dutch cancer specialist working in Cologne , Germany . Gorter, who studied at the University of Amsterdam and University of California medical school in San Francisco , had developed a new treatment for cancer that raised hopes for the family.
So Joe Pacini flew from the U.S. to Germany . After a single treatment, he was able to walk a little. Two days later, he no longer needed any pain medication. On the third day, Gorter suggested they might be celebrating his 80th birthday together.
Gorter’s breakthrough came in 1999 when he developed a procedure to cultivate so-called dendritic cells, which play a key role in fighting off cancer cells. The method attracted international attention, causing quite a positive stir among his colleagues at the conference of the American Society for Clinical Oncology—the international symposium for cancer specialists.
He tested his findings in a study involving 171 women with metastasized breast cancer who had undergone many forms of chemotherapy and radiation treatment and were considered hopeless cases. Following Gorter’s treatment, about 10 percent of the patients were in remission—a surprising result in patients considered terminal. In 60 percent of the women, the treatment greatly extended and enhanced the quality of their lives although they did not recover. According to Gorter, no other treatment offers similar results.
But he isn’t one to rest on his laurels. For 35 years he has been working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, to develop new therapies and refine current treatment methods. His patients can call him any time. Whether he’s in San Francisco, where he is a professor at the University of California, or one of the clinics he heads in Cape Town, Istanbul, Cologne or (shortly) Dubai and Shanghai—he is always on hand to help.
Gorter developed the cancer treatment using dendritic cells in co-operation with Professor Wolfgang Köstler of the University of Vienna in Austria and Professor Hinrich Peters of the University of Göttingen in Germany . These cells are vital to fighting cancer because they systematically scan all the body’s cells searching for aberrations. Gorter explains, “When they discover an abnormal cell, they move at lightning speed to the nearest lymph node, where hundreds of thousands of ‘killer’ cells are stored like soldiers in a barracks. These cells go out on the attack if they are so instructed by the dendritic cells, like generals commanding an army.”
One dendritic cell can simultaneously inform 5,000 “killer” cells of the characteristics of a cancer cell that must be destroyed. The dendritic cells, which look like little octopi, do this by spreading their tentacles. Gorter adds, “The ‘killer’ cells then swarm out and kill every cell with cancerous characteristics. As a result of this process, all the cancer cells that patients produce every day are dead within 24 to 36 hours.”
According to Gorter, cancer often takes root when dendritic cells are malfunctioning. “We’re all a bit cancerous” is his way of explaining that everyone has cancer cells in his or her body. “But things really start to go wrong when the body no longer recognizes or can kill these cells.”
That insight inspired Gorter and his colleagues to develop a method of producing large numbers of healthy, dendritic cells, which are reintroduced into the patient’s system. It works like this: “We take five tablespoons of blood and isolate the monocytes [undifferentiated or immature white blood cells produced in the bone marrow] that can be developed into dendritic cells. One week later we have 15 to 20 million extremely vital cells that are given back to the patient. These are well tolerated. Many people—even when their cancer has metastasized— do much better or recover completely. The therapy works on all types of tumours: both solid tumours—as is the case with colon, breast and lung cancer—as well as non-solid tumours such as lymphomas and leukemia.”
The treatment (which costs 2,600 euros or $3,300 U.S. ) is repeated six times with one-month breaks in between. This is why Gorter refers to it as a vaccine: “When the immune system has to learn something new, or change a particular function, the lesson must be repeated a number of times. The same thing is true with childhood illnesses. You have to repeat the vaccine several times. The patient often shows real signs of recovery after the third or fourth vaccination.”
And indeed, sometimes even after the first treatment, as was the case with Joe Pacini.
When Pacini arrived in Cologne via special transport, he was on his deathbed. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and difficult types to treat. His Californian doctors had given up hope because 80 percent of his liver had been destroyed. Pacini underwent three days of getting vaccinations containing dendritic cells along with hyperthermia treatments (a method which artificially raises the patient’s body temperature) . After that, he says, “I was even able to walk up to the third floor of my hotel without help. After the second day here I didn’t take any more pain medication because I was feeling so good.” Now, three months later, as Pacini returns to Cologne for his second treatment, he feels wonderful: “I feel so fit I’m walking three to four hours a day.” A smile lights up his face. “Yesterday I walked back and forth to Cologne ’s cathedral.”
After the first series of treatments, Pacini’s oncologist in the United States measured his tumour markers—abnormal proteins made only by cancer cells that demonstrate the presence of cancer and its degree of aggressiveness. The doctor was surprised to see a sharp drop in the markers when he had expected a rise. Pacini notes, “My oncologist said: ‘I don’t know what they’re doing, but it’s working.’”
Despite promising results like this, research into treatments with dendritic cells is barely getting off the ground. “There’s not a lot of money to be earned from the research,” Gorter states. “You can’t get a patent on it because dendritic cells are autologous [drawn from and reintroduced to a patient’s own body]. Which is why pharmaceutical companies aren’t interested. Classic, random studies have never been done because this type of research is very expensive.” Gorter worries that his treatment, like other alternative methods, will not be approved by influential authorities like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because these treatments run counter to the pharmaceutical- based philosophy of the medical establishment. He worries that legal charges may even be brought against doctors applying the therapy.
That’s the reason Gorter ended up working in Germany . The flamboyant professor feels more at home in a climate of professional freedom. All of his life he has lived by his own rules: “I used to wear jeans and shirts with flower prints. But when everyone started wearing them, it was time for a change.” In Germany he can wear his dicky bow ties and experiment with new therapies without any problem. Gorter: “In Germany , doctors enjoy a unique, constitutionally protected freedom to practise.” Recently, in fact, Germany ’s High Court in Karlsruhe ruled unanimously that qualified physicians have complete freedom to treat seriously ill patients as they see fit and that insurers must pay for the prescribed treatments.
This therapeutic freedom means that German doctors are not limited to the standard cancer protocols imposed in other Western countries: operations, radiation or chemotherapy. New treatments can be used alongside conventional ones, and even some traditional healing methods are employed. Gorter, for instance, makes frequent use of hyperthermia or fever therapy, which has been used since ancient times. Hippocrates said: “Give me a fever and I’ll heal every illness.”
This therapy was rediscovered around 1880 by the American doctor William Coley. While researching the relationship between fever and tumour growth, Coley chanced to find a man who’d had several unsuccessful operations to remove tumours on his face and neck. His condition become further complicated by a serious skin infection that went hand in hand with a high fever. Yet the patient survived the high fever and, even more amazingly, discovered his tumours had disappeared.
Coley looked at the medical literature and discovered this was not an isolated case: As soon as patients developed a high fever, their tumours sometimes vanished. Coley started successfully experimenting with artificial fevers among cancer patients. He did this by giving them bacilli. Sometimes these bacilli even erupted into the worst inoperable tumours, only to disappear within hours.
“Fever therapy works amazingly well—alone and in combination with other therapies,” Gorter states. “When you combine chemotherapy with fever therapy you’ll have fewer side effects from the chemo.
“Cancer is a so-called ‘cold illness’ and often disappears when the body’s temperature rises,” he continues. “The immune system also works optimally when a fever strikes. The only down side of Coley’s therapy was that he couldn’t precisely determine the level of the fever. We can now, thanks to special beds in which patients are wrapped to their necks and the temperature is controlled using infrared lamps, rising to around 40 degrees Celsius [104 degrees Fahrenheit].”
When Gorter calls cancer a “cold” illness, he’s not simply referring to the temperature. “The characteristic of many modern illnesses is that they are cooling, debilitating, hardening and chronic. Until recently, nearly all epidemics—such as tuberculosis, malaria and the flu—were caused by parasites or bacteria. But particularly after World War II, bacteria slipped increasingly into the background. They’re still there, but nowadays no one dies of pneumonia. But what has taken its place are the debilitating, degenerative diseases that are mainly caused by viruses like hepatitis B and C. The distinguishing characteristics of these illnesses are hardening or sclerosis. When viruses are isolated, they take on the form of a crystal; it looks like fine table salt.”
Ninety-nine percent of all cancers also show hardening properties, according to Gorter. “If you’ve got a little lump in your breast but you can press into it—if it’s a little spongy—doctors say: ‘We’ll wait a month and see.’ But when a lump is hard and you regularly see calcification in the mammogram, there is cause for concern and usually a malignancy.”
Gorter says this hardening is not only seen in modern diseases like cancer, hardening of the arteries, multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome, but also in our values, norms and language use. Gorter observes, “In our society, you’re not well paid for having a warm heart but for being smart. We have to be cool and efficient and above all we must not show too much warmth and enthusiasm. Those who do are quickly considered a little nuts or over the top. It’s a sign of our times.”
But these are the reasons why softness—or love—and warmth are particularly healing when it comes to cancer. Gorter nearly always asks his patients if there’s something that excites them; if they still have ideals. “I ask them: ‘Do you ever do anything for other people?’ Many look at me and say they’ve been busy working for decades and haven’t done anything all those years to help others.”
Gorter knows from experience the healing power of enthusiasm, love and optimism. When, at the age of 26, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that had spread to his stomach and lungs, he decided to heal himself. He took very hot baths—something he doesn’t necessarily advise for older patients as the heat can cause strong heart palpitations and low blood pressure as well as severe dizziness. He also started to live life with even more joy and optimism. Now he says he has learned this: “If something makes you enthusiastic you have a reason to live. Ultimately that is the way to break the vicious circle of hardening and cooling.”
http://www.odemagaz ine.com/article. php?aID=4350
Robert Gorter can be reached via Medical Center Cologne, Hohenstaufenring 30-32, 50674 Keulen, Germany. Phone: +49 (0)221 7886301 .
(PLEASE NOTE: DIFFERENT FROM PAPER VERSION OF ODE MAGAZINE)
Email: r.gorter@cologne- model.com.
www.cologne- model.com and www.anthroposophica l-medicine. info
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Reader's Comments
george robin ( San Francisco , CA )
I read the article eagerly and felt the ringing of truth inside - that Dr. Gorter and many others approach this mysterious disease with our true human nature - to solve problems with caring, curiosity, courage, compassion and creativity. I also had to acknowledge (I quit fighting my feelings) that after losing a dear friend and remarkable being to cancer just recently, that he could have been treated - could have tried a number of options - could have been informed - could have fought better.... yes, those feelings are useless now, but maybe they will be useful in the future for someone else who's time of transition should be much later. Thank you again for this article in many ways.
Reita A. Troum ( Houston , Texas 77042 )
Dr Gorter, I was very hopeful after reading your article in ODE. I have a "cure" from breast Ca ..Many years! However I now hace Hep C with resulting liver damage. I am the difficult to treat Genotype and although I did slow down the disease my various TREATMENTS did not eliminate the virus. Do you see any possibility for your treatment in my c ase. Thanks. Reita A. Troum P.S. I am an educator and psychotherapist in the medical field. Thanks for your interest.
Julia Schopick ( Oak Park , Illinois )
Reading this article about Dr. Gorter and his cancer vaccine made me both hopeful and sad. Hopeful, because people like Dr. Gorter exist -- and continue to maintain their optimism and dedication. But sad, because it seems that treatments like this vaccine simply don’t get the funding they so desperately need because they go against the pharmaceutical grain. The result, of course, is that people who want to avail themselves of promising treatments such as Dr. Gorter’s must have enough money to travel to Germany , and enough money to afford the treatments. This, of course, is hardly Dr. Gorter’s fault. But, as your article clearly demonstrates, it is one of his real concerns. America is so far behind countries like Germany in the treatment of cancer. But then, it seems to me that this has always been the case. In the late 1920s, my grandmother, after being told by Dr. Charles Mayo that she would be dead in 6 months, traveled to Germany, where she was treated with radiation -- the very same treatment that is still used today to treat cancer here in America! (At that time, though, radiation was not yet being used in this country.) BUT -- and this part is truly amazing! -- she was treated in Germany with a combination of radiation and oxygen, something I don’t think is done even today in this country! Thanks to her treatments in Germany , my grandmother lived an additional 11 years. She survived Dr. Mayo by a few months. You may read about my grandmother’s cancer treatments in Germany in the late 1920s on my website, www.honestmedicine. com. The precise link to the article is http://honestmedici ne.typepad. com/medical_ watch/essays/ index.html. I hope you will enjoy reading it. I have just started to do interviews/podcasts in connection with my website, and I intend to ask Dr. Gorter for the honor of interviewing him. It is my hope that, through my podcasts and the information on my website, I will be able to do my small part to help create more of a demand by the public for truly integrative healthcare. That’s my dream. Thank you for introducing me to Dr. Gorter. I have already shared this article (and your wonderful magazine) with scores of people! Julia Schopick www.honestmedicine. com JuliaS1573@aol. com
Linda Allen ( Chandler , AZ )
Thank you for the enlightening article. I am thankful that you are putting this knowledge out in the public arena. As a patient that had tested for cancer cells 5 times it is a comfort to know where to go if I ever have the need. I have taken full advantage of complimentary medicine and all that it offers here in the US, but Germany seems to be the place to go if you get cancer for a full round of treatments complimentary and otherwise. Thank God for Dr. Gorter and the other physicians that are willing to seek out all methods and do what is best for the patient instead of drugs and the standard chemo/radiation. I will be saving this information for anyone I know that may be in need of the information. I have already emailed to many friends. Thanks again.
tracey ( San Francisco )
Hello and thank you for you wonderful article. I might be biased as I'm currently going through chemo, I thought it should of been the cover story! nonetheless, I am thrilled to learn about Oncologist Robert Gorter awesome research to find a cure. In my experience, this is my 2nd time around, cancer has shown to be a big money making industry and those nasty drugs do the job but also hurt the patient. I try and avoid the prescribed drugs & use alternative pain relieve to save my liver. My lovely wife is an acupuncturist and has been telling me for years that cancer is a virus and in Chinese medicine one must to keep warm, practice qi gong, watch ones diet, and to live w/a warm heart, learn to be patient & avoid anger. thank you Robert Gorter, w/love from San Francisco . ^..^
Ajoy Kumar Ghatak (Mumbai INDIA )
i AM SUFFWRING WITH PROSTATE CANCER WITH GLEASON GRADE-6.THE CANCER HAS METASTISED IN MY RIBS AND SOME LYMPHS. I AM ON THE 12TH CYCLE OF 4-WEEKLY HARMONE INJECTIONS AND ZOLADRONIC ACID I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER THIS VACCINE TREATMENT. IAM SIXTY THREE YEARS OLD
TH ( Oakland )
The article should have had SOME balance, not all googah. Ode may be leading readers down the primrose path. For example, at the 2004 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, Gorter and colleagues reported results on "5 patients with pancreatic cancer including 2 stable diseases, 2 minor remissions and 1 mixed response". Results both thin and modest, yes? Stanford University researchers (Engleman, Geo. Fisher, etc.) are also working on DC vaccines, but seem to think they're not yet ready for prime time. By the way, I get treatment in Germany that is unavailable in the US , so I'm no fan of US medicine. But I get radiation therapy on which hundreds of papers have been published. If my therapy stops working well for me, I would phone Gorter and say "where have you published your track record?" "How did you make so much progress between 2004 and 2006?" I would phone Stanford and ask "what do you think about Gorter?" I wish the author had asked these questions for me. - Tim
Ali ( Seattle )
I'm glad you published this article and shed some light on alternative cancer treatments. However, I agree with TH, you could have asked some harder questions. I'm searching for alternative therpies for a loved one who has a terminal cancer. It is very difficult to sort through all the different therpies on the internet. It seems that most alternative therpies are not thoroughly researched. I believe in alternative therapies but I think we need a way to seperate the snake oil from the treatments that work. Does anyone have info that conflicts with Gorter's findings?
Gar Hildenbrand ( San Diego CA USA )
You wrote that Hippocrates said: “Give me a fever and I’ll heal every illness.” I believe it was Parmenides. This can be confirmed easily with a Google search on "Parmenides fever". Regarding fever therapy, MBVax Bioscience in Canada is manufacturing Coley Fluid. This is the first time that Coley Fluid has been subjected to modern techniques and technology, and the result is a vaccine superior to all previous versions. In addition, the website http://www.mbvax. com has much of the documentation that cancer patients are looking for.
Hera ( California )
I just want to say thank you, Dr. Gorter, for having the will and drive to do the various types of research that you do to find cures for people who are ill from cancer, AIDS, etc. Nowadays, it seems as though doctors are desensitized, and view a patient as just another "number" or "statistic" and don't really look at them as another LIVING human being. You, and doctors just like you bring hope, joy, motivation, and encouragement to people who are about to give up, but then read articles like this and do a 180 turn for the better. Its obvious that this article was published for the better of those who need that extra "push" and to be quite frank, its been the only one Ive read thusfar that has NO negative comments. People who are ill don't need to keep reading about when doctors think they will die, or how long they have to live. They need to read, and hear encouraging words of wisdom, which is what this article is all about. And at the end of the day, that is what helps anyone facing any obstacle-support. Thank you Dr. Gorter!!
Sara Hart ( Portland )
It is so wonderful to hear optimism in todays medical world. Fortunately such optimism is taking place in the US as well! Here in Portland , Oregon I'm a student of Naturopathic Medicine doing fever treatments all the time to help cure endless ailments! We have yet to do a cancer focus group but that is certainly much needed in order to get more published research out there to demonstrate the efficacy and importance of making these therapies available. Feel free to contact me if anyone is in need in the NW area! sararynhart@ yahoo.com
judi (pompton plains,nj)
I would like to know the criteria for this study/vaccine. My father-in-law is 70 years old. Stage 4 lung cancer,mets to bone and now to brain. He has just started a 3 week radiaton program and has a 3 month prognosis.
Philip N Arsenault (Ft Walton Beach , Florida )
Does this treatment work for one that has a suppressed immune system? I am a liver transplant recipient and am on rejection medication. I have breast cancer that metastasized to the bones and just recently found a spot on my lungs. I have never had chemo, just hormonal drugs and radiation? Thank you.
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