Role of Cancer Vaccine In Integrative Cancer Treatment,

Vaccine Cancer is a multi-faceted disease that needs to be treated with different approaches. This is the reason why we have different alternative to cancer treatment. The researchers and doctors have done much to avail us these alternative and one of the alternatives that is used widely in cancer treatment today especially by integrative cancer doctors is the use of cancer vaccines in treating cancer. There are several vaccines that have been made available to be used in curbing cancer. However we are going to learn about two major vaccines that are widely used in integrative cancer centers to help in the course of curbing cancer.

Cancer vaccines play a role in making the body more resistant to the cancer cells. It works in a ways that make the cancer cells more visible hence can be spotted by the white blood cells and killed. The cancer cells are known to camouflage to the surrounding cells making them be mistaken for healthy cells by the killer cells. The vaccines “remove this mask” and makes them more vulnerable to the attacks of the white blood cells and hence are killed outright.

Baculillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)

To those who might have heard of BCG can easily associate it with TB other than cancer. It is used against tuberculosis. However the recent research has found out that the Baculillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) can be used as a vaccine against cancer. It is found to have the abilities of stimulating the immune system to fight cancer naturally.

The researchers who led this research study were Dr Wai Liu and Professor Angus Dalgleish from St George’s, University of London. They opined that certain mechanism were likely to make the cancer vaccines more effective in enhancing the anticancer activity of the immune system. They said that these vaccines can be used alongside other cancer therapies as they will enhance the effectiveness of these treatments by awakening the immune system to fight cancer alongside these therapies.

The researchers used human tumor cells in a lab experiments. The researchers discovered that BCG played an apart by instructing the white blood cells to produce toxins that are known as cytokinins and use them in fighting the tumors. The cytokinins help by making the tumor cells more likely to be seen by the white blood cells. Hence making it easier for them to be fought.

“Cancerous cells are known to camouflage themselves as healthy cells. This means our blood cells responsible for immunity aren’t able to recognize the cancerous cells as being a problem and so the disease is able to continue to spread,” says Dr Wai Liu who led the research.

“This study found that a small quantity of BCG – similar to the amount that is administered in a TB inoculation can help the immune system recognize the cancer cells as ‘foreign’. The immune system can then attack these cells in the same way it would any other infection.” He concludes

When the BCG is introduced in the body cytokinins are released by the white blood cells in response, these cytokinins cause very many processes that begin by forcing the cancerous cells to switch off its camouflage or better yet “unmasking” the cancer cells. This makes the cancerous cells to be more visible to the white blood cells and the entire immune system. With this improved visibility of the tumor cells the white blood cells can now target the cancerous cell more strategically.

The effectiveness of the vaccine on different type of cancers was tested. The researchers did this by injecting BCG to the human cells from the lung, breast, colon, pancreatic and skin cancer. The test revealed that BCG increased the visibility of cancer cells on the colon, breast and lungs greatly. They verified that when camouflage of the cancer cells is reduced then they can be easily attacked and killed by the body’s immune system.

The Coley’s Vaccine

Coley’s vaccine also known as endotoxin treatment, Issel’s therapy or mixed bacterial vaccine was developed in New York City in 1890’s by a bone surgeon known as William Coley. Coley vaccine works and though currently doctors have found no scientific evidence that Coley’s vaccine can treat or prevent cancer there are many cancer survivors who claim to have used the Coley’s treatment.

Dr. William Coley developed the Coley’s therapy after realizing that the cancer patients who got infections after surgery lived longer than those who did not get an infection. His basis for developing Coley’s treatment was an argument that the infection stimulated the immune system of the patients to fight cancer. The first approach to Coley’s treatment was rather risky as he would inject live bacteria in the tumors, in most cases this method caused serious illness and in some cases the patients died due to the infection. Having seen the dangers in using live bacteria, he began using killed bacteria which raised the patient’s temperatures but did not cause any threat to the patients’ lives.

The Coley’s vaccine uses infectious agents. The treatment has it that the infectious agents are injected in the bloodstream. These infectious agents however has to be prepared by a qualified doctor in the hospital to ensure that they are safe and not contaminated hence cannot harm the patient. The infectious agents maybe mixed in given proportions to come up with a Coley’s Vaccine personalized to the patient’s type of cancer. Coley’s Vaccine is mostly used with other traditional cancer treatment methods.

Vaccine Dr. Coley opined that fever induction is a key aspect of treatment. In his treatment he observed that a stronger febrile response was the symptom most associated with tumor regression. When researchers went deep to look into the Coley’s Vaccine treatment method it was found that it was more effective on patients whose fevers ranged between 38-40 degrees. The Patients who had no fever during treatment did not do so well in the treatment.

Dr. Dalal Akoury is an experienced integrative cancer doctor who has seen very many cancer patients journey to victory in their fight against cancer. She is available for consultations. Just call her now and begin your journey to victory against cancer.