Your immune system goes into a state of anergy or non-reactivity during cancer, unable to act appropriately against the cancer. Fever therapy is a process of intentionally waking up the immune system by using protocols that synergize towards chills, fevers and flu-like symptoms. Simply put, during cancer, we need to see the immune system wake up! This happens when we see flu-like symptoms in addition to a fever response (hopefully higher than 100 degrees F).
The backbone of immunotherapy research
One hallmark of spontaneous remission to cancer was noted to be a fever induced typically by an infection prior to the remission. Western medical literature would occasionally note that a cancer patient would develop an infection and if they survived the infection, their tumor would shrink or they would go into complete remission. For example, St. Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1345), was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on one of his legs when he was young. The lesion ulcerated and became severely infected, warranting amputation. However, by the time the surgeon arrived, the infection had lessened and the tumor had shrunk. The wound healed and Peregrine kept his leg and lived until 85 years of age with no cancer recurring. Researchers began to consider warmth and fever in immune-modulation as a potential treatment for cancer. This was the birth of the research and development of immunotherapy treatments. The goal of immunotherapy is to trigger a heightened and more efficient immune response in the battle against cancer.
