روبرت جورتر، دكتوراه في الطب، دكتوراه

The Medical Center Cologne was founded by Robert Gorter, MD, PhD, and has been under his direction for the past twelve years. The center is dedicated to the treatment of cancer using immune-supportive therapies. Dr. Gorter developed this program after more than thirty-five years of clinical experience, after surviving cancer himself, and after having been a program director in the field of AIDS treatment and research for four years.

Dr. Gorter earned his medical degree at the University of Amsterdam Medical School in the Netherlands, where he graduated as a family practitioner in 1973. He completed his second postdoctoral training at the University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School in 1986. Dr. Gorter served as a full UCSF faculty member from 1986 to 2008.

Additional education includes a doctorate from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany in 1993, where he continues to serve as a faculty member. His training is foremost in conventional Western medicine with postdoctoral work in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. He also completed specialty training in anthroposophical medicine in 1973 in Arlesheim, Switzerland, with an emphasis on oncology.

Dr. Gorter opened his private practice and health care center in the hearth of Amsterdam in 1974. Only a few weeks after opening his practice, he was diagnosed with far-advanced, Stage IV testicular cancer – at that time described as “teratocarcinoma”, which is a type of cancer curently defined as germ-cell carcinoma.

He was able to recover successfully through nontoxic cancer therapy – that is, without the use of chemotherapy or radiation. His treatment consisted solely of therapeutic fever (hyperthermia) and injections of a known oncological botanical, the European mistletoe. This experience motivated him to further explore new, nontoxic approaches to cancer therapy.

In the 1980’s, Dr. Gorter served as a physician and researcher on AIDS at San Francisco general Hospital in the world-renowned Ward 86. He continued his involvement in research within the emerging field of immune therapy when Ward 86 became part of the UCSF AIDS Program.

Subsequently, for four years, Dr. Gorter was the medical director of the Department of AIDS Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. He was also highly active in program development in the initiation of the AIDS Health Project, the Coming Home hospice movement, and the Visiting Nurses’ Association home care services hor HIV/AIDS and cancer patients.

This work, conducted at the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe, provided Dr. Gorter the opportunity to be involved in the research and clinical care that first defined the complex elements of the human immune system. These studies from UCSF Medical Center have resulted in the most extensive knowledge base on immunity in HIV infection in our time.

When Dr. Gorter moved the focus of his work to cancer treatment a decade later, he integrated what he had learned in clinical practice and program development. He applied clinically relevant research on immune therapy to develop nontoxic, immune-based therapies for the treatment of cancer.
Drawing on what he learned as an AIDS researcher and on his clinical experiences, he began developing a cancer treatment program based on the principles of intensive and targeted immune restoration.

He has also participated in research on botanicals that address cancer, as well as other forms of immune suppression. In Berlin he founded the European Institute for Oncological and Immunological research, which he directed until 2001. This Institute was affiliated with the Free University (Freie Universität) and Dr. Gorter was also asked to lecture regularly to medical students and young doctors in this field.

Dr. Gorter has spent more than two decades establishing and refining effective methodology for immune therapy. He has pioneered the integrated use of therapeutic fever (fever-range, total-body hyperthermia) and has also worked extensively with an approach that essentially vaccinates the immune system to restore latent immune function.

Dr. Robert Gorter has written numerous articles and abstracts, contributed to many books, and been featured on ABC, CNN and numerous television programs in the EU and the Middle East. Robert Gorter and his co-author Erik Peper, PhD, have written the book "Fighting Cancer – A nontoxic Approach to Treatment".

The English and Dutch version (“Ik heb kanker, wat nu?”) were released in 2011. The book presents the "Gorter Model" which essentially is the way oncologic patients are currently being treated at the Medical Center Cologne (MCC) in Germany. It gives insight to the scientific foundation of all treatment modalities. Also, first success rates are here being presented.

The book also contains a DVD with patients' testimonials and excercises to change their lifestyle and improve their quality of life.

“Fighting Cancer” is being simultaneously translated into eight other languages:

Russian, Arabic, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Turkish and Romanian.

The book in English is to order at Amazon.
Order the English version here

The Dutch version is available online for a special price.
Order the Dutch version here