Coley’s Mixed Bacterial Vaccine
Fever inducing Mixed Bacterial Vaccine treatment has been an integral part of the integrative Issels Treatment® since 1951.
This treatment for cancer was pioneered by William B. Coley, who was the Attending Bone Surgeon at Memorial Hospital, now Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, from 1893 to 1936.
Mixed Bacterial Vaccines (MBV) contain a combination of heat killed bacteria, e.g. gram positive Streptococcus pyogenes and gram negative Bacillus prodigiosus, now called Serratia marcescens. In 1943, M.J. Shears, researcher at the National Cancer Institute, discovered that the biologically active substance in Coley’s Mixed Bacterial Vaccine is lipopolysaccharide (LPS) that occurs in the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria.
Administered intramuscularly or intravenously, depending on the individual condition of patients who qualify for this treatment, these vaccines induce fever for several hours. During the rise of the fever, patients get chills and feel flu-like symptoms, such as headache, back pain, nausea and pain in the tumor area. In some cases a drop of blood pressure has been observed. Tumors may swell during the fever treatment and sometimes, a few days after, patients may notice a reduction in tumor size.
Research studies explain the anti-tumor effect of Coley’s Mixed Bacterial Vaccine through induction of interferon, augmentation of natural killer cell activity, stimulation of lymphoid tissues, activation of macrophages, induction of serum factor that causes necrosis of tumors, as well as stimulation of interleukin 2.
Fever therapy not only has a significant effect on the immune system but on all the defense zones, and especially the reticulo-histiocytary defense zone and the pluripotent mesenchyme (connective tissues). This is also referred to as the “regulatory ground system” which is the system of basic regulation.
Clinical research suggests that the restoration of basic regulatory mechanisms appears to be an important precondition for specific immunotherapy to reach its optimal effect.
Starting in 1951, in his hospital in Germany, Josef M. Issels, M.D. administered, as one part of his integrative immunotherapy fever treatments without any adverse side effects or complications to thousands of patients suffering from progressive metastatic cancer. He was the only physician systematically applying this treatment to a large patient population. Studies carried out in his hospital comparing the white blood count before and shortly after fever therapy showed the remarkable immune enhancing effect of fever therapy.
References:
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Issels JM, M.D.”Cancer: A Second Opinion” 1999, New York, Avery Publ. Group ISBN 0-89529-992-5.
Prostate Cancer Vaccine
Hormone-refractory prostate cancer is a disease that is incurable by current standard treatments. Research points to Immunotherapy as a possible recourse in this regard.
For hormone-refractory patients, as well as for prostate cancer patients at any stage, we provide a vaccine which represents an autologous cellular immunotherapy.
It can be classified as an active specific cancer immunotherapy, which is designed to stimulate a patient’s immune system to target prostate cancer cells. The preparation of the vaccine involves culturing the patient’s peripheral monocytes and dendritic cells in vitro in the presence of a recombinant growth factor, GM-CSF, special cytokines and their own prostate-specific antigen, which is fractionated into peptides in order to achieve an even more specific immune response.
Dendritic cells (DC) are highly specialized antigen-presenting cells and play a key role in the immunological reactions throughout the body.
Doses and interval depend on the patient’s response and general condition. The side effects that some patients may experience comprise flu-like symptoms, a rise of body temperature for several hours and pain or tenderness in the tumor area for several days.
References:
Sam S Chang, MD, FACS, Rev. Urol. 2007; 9(Suppl 2): S13–S18. PMCID: PMC1887817. “Treatment Options for Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer”
Longo DL (July 2010). “New therapies for castration-resistant prostate cancer”. N. Engl. J. Med. 363 (5): 479–81. doi:10.1056/NEJMe1006300. PMID 20818868.
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