they could have a deleterious effect on immune
system functioning. Issels wished to motivate can-
cer patients to participate fully in their care and
healing and encouraged them to go mountain-
climbing, jog, and do other daily exercise. Studies
conducted at King’s College Hospital in London
and at the University of Leyden in Holland indi-
cated that approximately 17 percent of Issels’s
patients, considered to be in terminal stages of ill-
ness, led cancer-free lives for at least five years
after being diagnosed with less than one year to
survive. During the 1950s and 1960s, however,
the German medical community charged Issels
with fraud and manslaughter. In 1960 he was
incarcerated. Eventually he was acquitted of all
charges, and he now has retired to Florida.
Ahmed Elkadi, M.D., and his colleagues at the
Panama City Clinic in Panama City, Florida, are
offering a “multimodality immunotherapy pro-
gram” based on Issels’s methods. Additional infor-
mation on fever therapy is available from the
foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy
(FACT), P.O. Box 1242, Old Chelsea Station, New
York, NY 10113, or (212) 741-2790, or P.O. Box
215, 200 East Lancaster Avenue, Wynnwood, PA
19096, or (215) 642-4810.Iyengar yoga See YOGA.68 Iyengar yoga