Alternative Medicine Digest1

LIVINGSTON FOUNDATION MEDICAL CENTER

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Vaccines against Cancer

An immune-supporting therapy including specialized

vaccines, dietary changes, supplements, and counseling has

formed the core of the Livingston approach since 1969.

Ever since it’s founding in 1969, the Livingston Foundation Medical Center in San Diego, California, has treated various chronic conditions with an approach called immunotherapy.

According to Virginia Livingston, M.D. (1906-1990), the Center's founder, the vitality of the immune system is the key to health, and a weakened immune response is usually the road to illness. Thus, immune therapy has been the basis of treatment for the estimated 15,000 patients who have come to the Center since its inception. On average, the Center's 21 staffers see about 300 new patients a year. Thus, immune therapy has been the basis of treatment for the estimated 15,000 patients who have come to the Center since its inception. On average, the Center's 21 staffers see about 300 new patients a year.

All photos 1997 © Roberto Zeballos

"We work with people and their weakened immune systems," says Dr. Mark H. LaBeau, D.O., the Center’s medical director. Here Dr. LaBeau uses acupuncture to reduce a patient’s pain. Founded in 1969, the Livingston Center in San Diego (right) has used immunotherapy to treat over 15,000 patients.

Livingston Foundation Medical Center - 3232 Duke Street - San Diego, CA

As practiced today at the Livingston Center, immune therapy works to reverse disease by stimulating and supporting the immune system through specialized vaccines, diet and individually tailored supplement programs, and psychological counseling. "Cancer is a disease of the immune system," said Dr. Livingston. "Or, more accurately, it is a disease of a weak immune system. Every cancer patient who comes to our clinic has a severely depressed immune system."

Dr. Livingston's immune therapy approach to treating chronic degenerative illness was the result of decades of professional research and deep insight.

Although her discoveries caused controversy in scientific and medical circles, Dr. Livingston was widely respected and held many prestigious academic and medical appointments.

She was an associate professor of biological sciences at Rutgers University, director of the Laboratory of Proliferative Diseases at Newark Presbyterian Hospital, and the author of several books on cancer and vaccine therapy.

According to Alan R. Cantwell, Jr., M.D. (see accompanying sidebar, "Is There a Cancer Microbe?"), Dr. Livingston is "one of the great, unsung scientists of present-day medicine. When her discovery of the 'cancer microbe' becomes accepted, she will undoubtedly be known as the Pasteur of this century."

Alternative Medicine Digest - Issue 19