Josef Issels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Issels

German physician

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1907

Place of Birth: Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1998

Profession: physician, oncologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Josef M.
Issels (November 21, 1907 – February 11, 1998) was a German physician known for promoting an alternative cancer therapy regimen, the Issels treatment.
He claimed to cure cancer patients who had been declared incurable by conventional cancer treatments.
During Issels' lifetime, his methods were controversial, and in 1961 he was charged with fraud and manslaughter for allegedly promising fraudulent cancer cures and for the subsequent deaths of patients under his care who refused standard cancer treatment.
An initial conviction on the manslaughter charge was overturned in 1964 on the grounds that Issels had genuinely believed that his therapy could cure cancer.
The Issels treatment is currently considered unproven and ineffective as a treatment for cancer.