In March 2008 through the knowledge and friendship of Nancy Ehrlich, a friend and colleague I reconnected with Paula Goldberg who is a fellow Real Estate Broker/Manager who works for Prudential Fox & Roach in New Jersey and who I had worked with while a Manager/Regional Manager at Prudential Fox & Roach in the late 90’s. Paula immediately connected me with Dr. Raymond Chang. At this time Paula had been a patient (non-small cell lung cancer) of Dr. Chang for several months, and a believer in his approach to treating cancer. Paula told me about Dendritic Cell Therapy early on although at this point she hadn’t had the treatment herself and that wouldn’t come until July 2008. Paula was introduced to a young lady who after failing several traditional cancer treatments for a brain tumor came to be treated by Dr. Chang, ultimately traveled to Germany for Dendritic Cell Therapy and has had her cancer STOP (they can see it on her scans but it hasn’t grown and appears to be encapsulated) for almost 3 years now.
Paula, as noted, had DC in July 2008 but in December found out that her cancer has come back for the third time and is back on a traditional form of chemotherapy which is incompatible with ongoing DC treatments. Please keep her in your prayers too.
Dr. Chang has been guiding my care ever since, with the express consent of Kristi (my wife and a doctor) as well as my brother Jay who both accompanied me, along with a healthy dose of skepticism, on my very first appointment, since the very beginning. It took Kristi and Jay about 45 minutes into that first appointment in early March 2008. They didn’t even crack a smile or really ask a question of Dr. Chang and I did most of the talking although Dr. Chang was really directing his comments to Kristi, a fellow medical professional. What broke the ice was question about a drug that had been FDA approved for small-cell lung cancer (my initial diagnosis) in the U.S. only two days prior and brought to my attention by a friend and colleague, Roger Farber. When I asked about the drug, manufactured by Celgene Dr. Chang immediately reached up on his bookshelf, pulled down a binder that said Celgene on the cover, opened to page 257 and explained/showed to us that I would not be eligible for this particular chemo treatment because of the two heart surgeries (stents) I had placed in my left main artery (LAD) in 2007.
Dr. Chang knows most of what’s out there when it comes to cancer and cancer treatments and if you know someone who wants to do EVERYTHING possible to stay alive and as healthy as possible during cancer treatments AND will work with traditional Medical and Radiation Oncologists I would recommend making an appointment ASAP.
Dr. Chang’s approach is to wage guerilla warfare on cancer. If it won’t kill you why not try it?
Dr. Raymond Chang MD FACP - Medical Director, Meridian Medical Group
Hailed by New York Magazine as early as 1999 as one of the "New Healers"; Dr. Chang has also been interviewed on the Today Show (click for video download), cited by Reuters, Foxnews, WebMD, and Mamm magazines for his pioneering work in alternative medicine.
Dr. Chang who was originally from Hong Kong, is an internationally respected physician-acupuncturist uniquely trained in traditional Chinese medicine as well as contemporary Western medicine, and he is an acknowledged pioneer-specialist in the field of alternative and complementary therapy programs for cancer, infertility and other difficult conditions.
Dr. Chang received both his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.D. degrees from Brown University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa as well as Sigma Xi. He subsequently completed post-doctoral training at Waterbury and New York Hospitals, and was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine before joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer to direct its acute care department. He was on the faculty of Medicine at Cornell Medical College and was an Associate Attending in the Dept. of Medicine at Memorial Hospital as well as an Associate Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute till 1997. In the mid-90's, he developed what is acknowledged to be nationally one of the most complete programs in alternative medicine education at Cornell Medical College. In 1995, he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and was the first visiting professor of the Taiwan Cancer Foundation at the National Taiwan University. He was visiting professor at Shanghai Medical College's Obstetrics/Gynecology Hospital in the summer of 1998. Currently, he attends at the New York - Presbyterian and Beth Israel Hospitals in New York City and is on the faculty of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.
Aside from his unique background in traditional Chinese medicine, Dr. Chang has been a strong proponent for an evidence-based and complementary approach to alternative medicine. In the research arena, Dr, Chang is an expert in the use of immunopotentiating medicinal herbs and fungi for cancer, hepatitis and HIV. Dr. Chang lectures frequently in the U.S. as well as in Asia on alternative therapies and topics related to the regulatory issues of botanicals and supplements - see select lectures by Dr. Chang, and he has also contributed to multiple textbooks, and recently published a book on fertility and on integrating Western and Chinese medicines, as well as many related articles both in Chinese and in English. He is a member of a number of academic medical societies and is also the current President of the Institute of East-West Medicine and served as editorial committee member of the international journal "Complementary and Alternative Medicine", as well as advisory board member of the PDQ Database of the National Cancer Institute and the Global Forum on Indigenous and Traditional Health Systems. \ USA - Meridian Medical offers consultation in the use of DC Therapy for cancer and offers logistic planning and clinical assistance in US patients interested in private treatment in affiliated European clinics. Meridian is experienced in the use of cytokines and immune potentiating herbal extracts as adjuvants in DC Therapy. For further infomation, please email Dr. Raymond Chang.
Europe - The Institute of Tumor Therapy in Duderstadt under the direction of Dr. Thomas Nesselhut in collaboration with Professor JH Peters of the U. of Gottingen in Germany have pioneered the clinical use of DC Therapy in cancer and has treated over 1000 patients to date. For further info: US patients please email Dr. Raymond Chang, all other patients please email Dr. Dagmar Marx.
Duderstadt, Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duderstadt is a city in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Göttingen. It is the center and capital of the northern part of the Eichsfeld ("Untereichsfeld"). In earlier times it was the private wealth of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Mainz.
The earliest documentary mention of Duderstadt was in 929 AD, and the city celebrates its anniversaries counting from that year.
Architecture
The city contains many historical buildings in the carcass style, most notably along the Market Street, which stretches from the St. Cyriakuskirche (Catholic, built 1250 - 1490), also called "Oberkirche" (upper church), down to the St. Servatiuskirche (Protestant, built 1370 - 1520), also called "Unterkirche" (nether church).
Old town gate Westerturm
Built in 1343, the Westerturm is one of at least eight gate towers and peels of the city's fortress wall, it burned down in 1424 and was rebuilt over the course of 12 years. The Westerturm has a very distinctive twisted roof. Though not the only tower in Germany with a twisted roof, its execution was particularly successful. There are a number of folk tales to explain the twist: one tale claims that an unoiled weather vane caused the wind to twist the roof. Another claims that when the devil was driving the men of Duderstadt to drink, the women drove him away, but not before he grabbed the tower and twisted it while passing over the wall, making his escape.
Construction of the Rathaus (city government building) began in 1302, with additional wings and components added until 1674. It was completely restored in the 1980s and most recently in 2002. At particular hours, a carillon plays from one of the towers as a bust of the "Anreis" (also: "Anreischke") comes out and nods.
The "Anreischke"
The city Innenstadt is surrounded by a 3km long earthen wall which was constructed by a traveling master fortress builder named Andreas. The city council (Rat) of Duderstadt contracted with Andreas in 1506 to build the wall. Since the surrounding farmers were also to be protected by the wall, the Rat conscripted them to work on the construction of the wall. Andreas was reportedly a cruel taskmaster, and the farmers detested him. They soon also blamed the citizens of Duderstadt for their woes, and took to calling all of them "Anreischke", after Andreas, which was pronounced "Anreis" in the "platt" (low) German spoken by the farmers.
Main road Marktstraße
The citizens of Duderstadt, in turn, had a wooden bust of Andreas constructed and attached to a clockwork. Every 2 hours since then, the wooden "Anreischke" would come out and nod to the farmers coming to market, to remind them of the detested Andreas, and of their dependency on the city.
That wooden Anreischke nods until this day from the Rathaus tower at 9am, 11, 1pm, 3, 5 and 7.
Otto Bock
A Duderstadt-headquartered company is the Otto Bock corporation, named after its founder. Otto Bock produces state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs and other health products. Though now an international company, it is still headquartered in Duderstadt. 2003 revenue was 355.5 million euros. Otto Bock was a significant contributor to economic growth in the region in the postwar period.
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