Scientific and Practical Information on Dendritic Cells and their Clinical Applications

This website is intended to give information on dendritic cells and their applications in oncologic patients and is made possible by donations and other forms of support from mainly grateful patients, their relative members, and non-profit (tax-exempt) organizations. This web site does not claim to be inclusive of all scientific literature ever published. For this purpose, special archives like MedLine and MedLib have been established. The editors of this web site have collected information from scientific sources, patient`s testimonies in writing and through video clippings, and documentation from clinicians and medical centers of good standing throughout the world with extensive experience in these fields. Their effort is to target the lay public to gather information on dendritic cell therapy and supportive measurements to enhance immune restoration in the oncologic patient.

At the Medical Center Cologne in Germany (MCC), the Director Robert Gorter, MD, PhD., is a cancer survivor himself for over 33 years and when diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 1976, he decided to apply to himself targeted immune therapy rather than any standard (chemo-)therapy of that time. Since then, he has been dedicated to treat cancer patients (and later on also people living with chronic viral infections like HIV and Hepatitis B & C) in new and pragmatic ways through immune restoration and other measurements. Through his extensive clinical and scientific experience, through the years, Robert Gorter has developed what is now called the “Gorter Model.” One of the objectives of the Gorter Model has always been not to be an alternative (or in opposition) to standard medicine but to be an extended form of Western Medicine with its roots firmly in scientific tradition. The content of this website reflects in part those principles and clinical experience gathered by Robert Gorter and his associates.