Talk:Josef Issels

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Removed from category health sciences as it is a biographical entry. Any future entry on the Issels Treatment can be put in health sciences category --Vincej 15:55, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Grossly misleading
''Among his illustrious patients were ... Bob Marley and ... Lillian Board, who both entered his ... clinic for treatment. Nevertheless, both died soon after.''

This is grossly misleading, according to information in Bob Marley and Lillian Board:

Marley: In July 1977, Marley was found to have ... melanoma ... Marley refused amputation ... The cancer then metastasized to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. ... 1980 ... he collapsed ... Marley afterwards sought medical help from ... Issels, but his cancer had already progressed to the terminal stage.

Board: An ... operation ... on October 8 revealed that the cancer had spread ... and she was given two months to live. Seeking a cure, she travelled in November 1970 to ... Issels ... She died on December 26, 1970.

78.42.118.128 (talk) 20:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

It is also grossly misleading to suggest that a 28-year-old article in a trade magazine, CA: a Cancer Journal for Clinicians, is evidence of current opinion; it is not. I cannot find evidence of a "current opinion" on Issels, pro or con. Ghildenbrand (talk) 19:40, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * First of all, CA isn't a "trade magazine", but a MEDLINE-indexed, reputable medical journal. Secondly, there is no evidence that current opinion has changed at all. You won't find "current" opinions on the Flat-Earth hypothesis, either - once something has been soundly dismissed as ineffective or worse, researchers typically don't keep pumping out articles reaffirming that it continues to be ineffective. MastCell Talk 21:25, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Text modification: "Issels Treatment" paragraph.
I have amended some text in this para. The original version, that Issels' methods are now practised "both in and out of the United States" is Americo-centric and therefore out of place. Issels was not American and neither is his story. His methods are practised all around a world in which less than 3 per cent of the people are American. (204.112.56.25 (talk) 03:08, 20 February 2011 (UTC))