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The possible role of the dendritic cells in the biological immune response against malignancies (solid tumors) was discovered and clinically investigated...
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The goal of hyperthermia in oncology is to induce a fever state that will activate the immune system, and destroy the cancer cells. ...
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2012



February 2012 : PRO TV Romania writes weekly about
Medical Center Cologne.  Medical Center Cologne

Read about Dr. Gorter's personal experience with cancer and how he developed the Gorter Model



January 2012: Fighting Cancer Using a Nontoxic Therapy
- a radio interview with Erik Peper, PhD



Click here to listen to the conversation
Click here to read Erik Peper's website
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January 2012 : PRO TV Romania writes about Medical Center Cologne. See the video and text in Romanian! Medical Center Cologne



January 2012: The innovative cancer therapies -
"As novas terapias contra o cancro" Medical Center Cologne

Visao magazine in Portugal writes about the innovative approaches in the treatment of cancer, including the dendritic cells therapy at Medical Center Cologne .

Click here to read the online article in Portuguese

Click here to read the article in the magazine


January 2012: Comunicato stampa - L'immunità e le cellule dendritiche Medical Center Cologne

Intercettare il nemico, identificarlo e correre a lanciare l’allarme:

fanno questo, in sostanza, le cellule dendritiche, uno dei più importanti sistemi radar che l’immunità ha a disposizione per mettere a punto efficaci e potenti difese contro eventuali insulti che dall’esterno o dall’interno possono compromettere la salute dell’organismo.

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2011



December 2011: Fungi Infections and Cancer Exploration

Rob Dunn, in the New Scientist (Dec 2011), suggests that the reason mammals and birds mantain a high core temperatureis to avoid fungi infection. Most fung thrive between -4 and 30 degrees while only 1/3 surviceat 36 and only 5% at 41 degrees.

Find out more about core temperatures and fungi infection !


October 2011: Nobel-Prize winner used his dendritic cell therapy to treat his own cancer

Medical Center Cologne Ralph Steinman tested Nobel-Prize winning research on himself.
Reuters profiled Steinman's efforts to treat his own pancreatic cancer using his Nobel Prize-winning dendritic cell therapy.
Steinman on Oct. 3 received the 2011 Nobel Prize in medicine for his immunology research and his 1973 discovery of dendritic cells , which allowed for the creation of the first therapeutic cancer vaccine.

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However, just three days prior to receiving the award, Steinman died after a four-and-a-half-year battle with pancreatic cancer. In an effort to beat his own cancer and
develop a cure for others, Steinman opted to receive all available conventional therapies, including chemotherapy, and unproven treatments, such as an experimental melanoma vaccine and the dendritic cell therapy he had helped develop.

For the dendritic cell therapy, Steinman received eight to nine doses of dendritic cells made from his own blood and blood precursor cells. In the end, Steinman lived more than three years longer than expected.
Although colleagues say it is impossible to determine which treatments prolonged his life, Steinman himself believed it was the dendritic cell therapy, Reuters reports.

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October 2011: Dendritic Cell Scientist Wins Nobel Prize!

Dendritic cell research got a boost when Ralph Steinman won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Sadly, Steinman did not live long enough to receive the Prize, he passed away just three days before the Nobel Prize was announced. In 1973 Ralph Steinman and Zanvil Cohn published the first paper describing the discovery of dendritic cells in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Cohn died in 1993 at the age of 66.
In the paper Steinman and Cohn wrote, "morphological observations, both in vivo and in vitro, indicate that these novel cells can assume a variety of branching forms, and constantly extend and retract many fine cell processes. The term "dendritic" cell would thus be appropriate for this particular cell type."
Since then, Steinman’s research was focused on this cell type.Initially dendritic cells were not given the due attention by immunologists. But research in this area of immunobiology gained momentum by early 1990s.
Describing this "once neglected cell type," Jacques Banchereau and Ralph Steinman wrote in Nature, in 1998, "Dendritic cells in the periphery capture and process antigens, express lymphocyte co-stimulatory molecules, migrate to lymphoid organs and secrete cytokines to initiate immune responses. They (dendritic cells) not only activate lymphocytes, they also tolerize T cells to antigens that are innate to the body (self-antigens), thereby minimizing autoimmune reactions."

Read more about Ralph Steinman.


October 2011:This year's Nobel Laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation.

The discoveries that are awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize have provided novel insights into the activation and regulation of our immune system. They have made possible the development of new methods for preventing and treating disease, for instance with improved vaccines against infections and in attempts to stimulate the immune system to attack tumors.

These discoveries also help us understand why the immune system can attack our own tissues, thus providing clues for novel treatment of inflammatory diseases. Ralph Steinman discovered, in 1973, a new cell type that he called the dendritic cell.





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He speculated that it could be important in the immune system restoration and went on to test whether dendritic cells could activate T cells, a cell type that has a key role in adaptive immunity and develops an immunologic memory against many different substances.

Further studies by Steinman and other scientists went on to address the question of how the adaptive immune system decides whether or not it should be activated when encountering various substances.

Signals arising from the innate immune response and sensed by dendritic cells were shown to control T cell activation. This makes it possible for the immune system to react towards pathogenic microorganisms while avoiding an attack on the body's own endogenous molecules. Read more...






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October 2011: U.S. Panel Says No to Prostate Screening for Healthy Men!
New York Times

Healthy men should no longer receive a P.S.A. blood test to screen for prostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain, impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel has decided.
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September 2011: Radio interview with Dr. Erik Peper about
"Fighting Cancer: A Nontoxic Approach to Treatment"

Medical Center Cologne Nontoxic Cancer Treatment Approach - The Gorter Model is described as an integrative, nontoxic approach to cancer treatment that mobilizes the immune system.

It was developed by Robert Gorter, a medical doctor, who recovered from cancer by using nontoxic treatment and no chemotherapy or radiation. Dr. Gorter based his model on self-experience, extensive research and decades of clinical practice.

Fighting Cancer presents an overview of the Gorter Model, the research behind it and ways to natural immune restoration.
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September 2011: New York Times Article about HIPEC!

Immune restoration has always been the focus point of the cancer therapies offered at MCC. A recent article in the New York Times refers to a study which shows that it is usually wrong in medicine to take for granted that when something might be good for you, more is better!

One good example is the aggressive application of heated chemotherapy during an abdominal operation (HIPEC) with the assumption that one could kill the very last cancer cell which might have been left by the surgeon. Clear benefit has never been shown but for sure a 8% death rate directly due to the complications of HIPEC.

Also, not that long ago, in the 1960's and early 1970's, women with breast cancer underwent not only routinely radical mastectomy and removal of underlying musculature but also complete resection of all lymph nodes.

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June 2011: Prevent and Cure Cancer Through the Power of Emotional Intelligence and a Balance of Eastern and Western Medicine

Robert Gorter, MD, PhD and Erik Peper, PhD are Ester Orioli's featured guests in her radio show "Leading with Emotional Intelligence" (San Francisco).

The topic of discussion is the nontoxic approach in the treatment of cancer.

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July 2011:Dr. Robert Gorter speaks about the cancer treatment protocol at MCC in The Gary Null Show

Dr. Gorter talks about the immune restoration importance in the cancer treatment. To restore the immune system of cancer patiets, Gorter Model includes a regimen of hyperthermia modelities, dendritic cell therapy, mistletoe injections, Vitamin C, nutrients and antioxidant therapies and life style changes.
His recent book “Fighting Cancer: A Nontoxic Approach to Treatment” , co-written with Dr. Erik Peper, who was treated with the Gorter Model, is a thorough review of this novel cancer treatment and provides insights on adopting life style practices to improve and maintain high immune function.
Dr. Erik Peper is an internationally recognized expert in holistic health, stress management and biofeedback. He has written many health articles for publications such as Men’s Health, Shape, Women’s Health, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Peper was diagnosed with melanoma and after conventional treatment and recurrence, was treated by Dr. Gorter with the Gorter Model.

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July 2011: Esther Orioli and her guests

Esther Orioli and her featured guests Robert Gorter, M.D. and Erik Peper, Ph.D., discuss how modern medicine is often barking up the wrong tree when it comes to understanding and treating cancer and the new ways emotional intelligence can be used to fight disease.

Listen to the inteview!


January 2011: Dr. Gorter visited Cairo in the summer of 2010.

He gave lectures and signed a contract for further collaboration with universities in Egypt.


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December 2010: Dr. Gorter gives lectures at Scuola di Luca Bologna (Italy)

Dr. Robert Gorter travelled to Bologna and Florence in Italy from December 2nd through 5th, 2010, to lecture at the art therapy school “Stella Maris” (Scuola di Luca) in Bologna.

The art therapy school Stella Maris is a spring off from the art therapy school Scuola di Luca in Florence which was founded by Robert Gorter (as the medical specialist) and Mrs. Fiorenza De Angelis (as the leading artist for painting) in 1993. Scuola di Luca was carried by a non-profit, tax-exempt foundation.

Unfortunately, as a complication of many years of heavy smoking, Fiorenza experienced several bouts of deep vein thrombosis and once lung emboli which did not keep her from smoking (!). Then, in 2006, she experienced another massive embolus with a stroke (brain infarct), and left her paralyzed.

Since then, she has not been able to work in any form, and the school entered in quite a disarray: ignoring the legal status of the school as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, two of her daughters, and the De Angelis family at large, got involved in a kind of “succession war” and Robert Gorter had to withdraw as faculty member.

Therefore, Robert Gorter joined one of the early and most promising students of Scuola di Luca in Florence, Mrs. Carla Borri, to set up a second school for art therapy in Bologna (Stella Maris, or “Scuola di Formazione in Arte Terapia del Colore”).

Also, Robert Gorter went one day to Florence to meet the interior designer Mr. Ilio De Fillipis, to discuss plans and design options for new clinics-to-come. Ilio De Fillippis has designed and built houses and mansions in California (Hollywood) and in many locations in Asia and Europe.

This picture was taken during a quick lunch brake at a local restaurant around the corner of the school building with Carla and Francesco, and a student guest, named Mani, from Pakistan.

Here, Dr. Robert Gorter has been captured with his students for art therapy in Bologna on Sunday, December 5th, 2010. All the way to the right is Francesco Settani, who translated simultaneously from English into Italian





October 2010: Dr. Gorter visits Lebanon

From October 27th through 29th, 2010, Robert Gorter visited Beirut for two days while being on his way to Cairo for his monthly visit to the office of Medical Center Cologne in Cairo.

The main purpose of this visit was to re-open his talks with leading Lebanese and Saudi investors and doctors to discuss the opening of a Medical Center Cologne in Beirut. Earlier meetings with the same intentions in the mid 2000's were abruptly ended by the series of political killings in Lebanon and the war between Hisbollah and Israel.

Mahmoud is a specialist in finance and business administration and worked in Saudi Arabia for a while but decided to return to Lebabon to assist Dr. Gorter's activities in the Middle East.

Whenever Dr. Gorter travels in Lebanon, he is accompanied by his secretary Mr. Mahmoud Abdul Nasser Wahidi. Mahmoud Wahidi traveled to Egypt a few times to get trained by the staff of the Medical Center Cologne in Cairo.





July 2009: Dr. Gorter visits New Zealand

Dr. Robert Gorter visited New Zealand from July 2nd through 12th, 2009, to meet with various colleagues and groups of people in the medical field and faculty members of the University of Auckland, the capital of New Zealand, active in the field of internal medicine, oncology and infectious diseases.

Robert Gorter was accompanied by Mr. Dawood Khan most of the time. Mr. Dawood is a long-time friend and a Pakistani citizen from Lahore. Dawood grew up in Australia and is now finishing up his education in business administration. He was very helpful to Robert Gorter in sorting things out like addresses and finding the way by car or public transportation. Also, he has offered to translate the website of Medical Center Cologne in Urdu, the main language spoken in Pakistan.

Most helpful was Dr. Roger Leitch from Auckland and his wife Gertrude. Gertrude is a registered nurse from Austria and met Roger Leitch during his training in Anthroposophical Medicine at the Ita Wegman Klinik in Arlesheim in Switzerland. She still speaks German with a strong Austrian accent. During his stay, Gertrude organized several dinners at their house to make it easier for Robert Gorter to meet with new friends, other colleagues and therapists.

On two different occasions, Robert Gorter visited the Anthroposophical Society in Auckland, and met besides members of the Society also the local curative eurythmist, another doctor besides Dr. Leitch and Gertrude, another registered nurse and two art therapists at the newly renovated building of the Auckland Anthroposophical branch.

At one occasion, Robert Gorter was invited for dinner to the house of Dr. Roger Leitch and his wife Gertrude (who is an excellent cook) to meet several members of the Anthroposophical Society to get introduced and plan future collaborations.

At the last evening of Robert Gorter’s stay, a dinner meeting had been organized at the house of Prof. Mark Thomas and his wife Mimi, who is a Family Practitioner herself. Their son Sam cooked a delicious vegan biodynamic dinner. At the diner table, possible future projects were discussed and outlined.

Dr. Gorter will most likely still return to New Zealand before the end of 2009.

Dr. Gorter and Dr. Roger Leitch visited the Anthroposophical Society in Auckland twice, and met besides members of the Society also the local curative eurythmist, another doctor besides Dr.Leitch, a nurse and two art therapists. At this pictures a few of those present at one of the meetings in the building of the Auckland branch

Dr. Roger Leitch, Anthroposophic familiy practitioner in Auckland, and his wife Gertrude in their cabinet in Auckland.