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Coley's Toxins

Submitted by CancerHusband on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:12
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In my mind, the #1 choice of cancer treatment that EVERY cancer patient should be taking a long, hard look at is Coley's Toxins (also called Coley Fluid). This is a treatment that was used by a fair number of physicians in the US in the early 1900s until the FDA did not grandfather it in. Apparently, the Mayo brothers used to send all their cancer patients for at least a couple months of Coley's after surgery.

About Coley's Toxins

I'm not going to re-invent the wheel here. I'm going to refer you to the most palatable introduction to Coley's Toxins for the layman -- a paid report written by Ralph Moss on his website (www.cancerdecisions.com). It's a 100 page report but is quite inexpensive. For those of you who don't have the patience or time to read through that long report, you can check out Dr. Moss' shorter description of Coley's Toxins for free . There's also a wikipedia page for starters.

Apparently, there was a lay person (an engineer by profession) who used to go around helping hapless patients get Coleys. This article is supposedly written by him. Pretty interesting but not validated: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/coleys_toxin2.html

 

 

Also, here's a detailed write up by Coley's daugter, the late Helen Coley Nauts: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_251/ai_n6112670/pg_1 . Helen was a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to preserving her father's legacy. If not for her steadfastness, mankind would probably have completely lost Dr. Coley's work.

Here are some interesting pubmed articles on Coley's Toxins:

Also of interest, this article indicates that challenging the body with a vaccine after chemotherapy helps to rebuild the immune system:

Solving the batch-consistency problem

It is widely thought that batch inconsistency was a primary factor in Coley's Toxins not working for some physicians who used it, while working well for others. A Canadian company, MBVax, has produced a batch-consistent version.

"MacAdam (the CEO of MBVax) has solved Coley's major difficulty: maintaining consistency of the brew from batch to batch. His preparation has been tested on terminal cancer patients outside the U.S. and Canada, and he contends that 24 in 38 patients have shown signs of tumor regression, although nothing is published yet. Dr. Vikas Sukhatme, a professor at Harvard Medical School, says he hopes to run clinical trials once the product has been manufactured according to Food and Drug Administration guidelines."

MBVax recently published some results of their Coley Fluid. They claim 8 of 19 chemo resistant late stage breast cancers achieved complete regression. If true, that is an amazing result by conventional standards.

The People's Pharmacy (an NPR program) recently interviewed the MBVax CEO as well as some researchers at Harvard, NIH, Germany:

How to get Coley's Toxins

For cancer patients wanting Coley's today, I think the best bet is to contact MBVax and ask them for suggestions. The company has relationships with physicians and clinics around the world who may be using their version of Coley's Toxins.

The Issels program has long been using Coley's Toxins as part of their regimen. They started in Germany, moved to Mexico (Tijuana) and now there are 2 additional clinics in the US (Phoenix and Santa Barbara). They can only administer Coley's at their Tijuana operation though. There are many testimonials on their websites: http://www.isselsmedicalcenter.com/testimonials.aspx and http://www.issels.com/ . However, Issels currently only uses Coleys subcutaneously, and only once per week. They use Coley's primarily as an adjuvant to their other vaccines.

Coley's Toxins blog

Finally, my wife and I have created a blog of our Coley's Toxins experience. We hope this will help demystify the treatment and show that it's relatively "easy" to tolerate in comparison with chemo and radiation.