Fund started for U.K. athlete’s treatment

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 20

Fund started for U.K. athlete’s treatment

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. As the Olympic athlete, Miss Lillian Board, started her cancer cure at a Bavarian clinic, hundreds of well-wishers in Britain have already responded to an appeal for a fund to help pay for her treatment.

Miss Board, aged 22, arrived at the Bavarian resort of Rottach-Egern, where she is to have treatment at a clinic run by the controversial cancer specialist, Dr J. Issels. Accompanying her was her fiance, Mr David Emery, a London journalist.

The courage Miss Board had shown on the track and was now showing in her fight for life had created such an impression in London that even while she was flying to the clinic a fund to help pay for treatment had already ben started by Miss M. Hartman, the secretary of the Women’s Amateur Athletic Association.

“It is expensive treatment and it is the least I can do for this courageous girl,” said Miss Hartman. Miss Hartman said that although legal arrangements for setting up the fund had

not been completed she had already been inundated with ; offers. , The cost of Miss Board’s 1 clinic treatment is expected ' to be about £l2O a week, but : to meet extraneous expenses 1 the fund is setting itself a target of £l5O a week for a minimum of two months. Miss Hartman said that psychologically it was vital that Mr Emery should stay to give her moral support and arrangements might also be made through the fund to make this possible if it is necessary. DIVERTED She said that if the fund produced more money than needed for Miss Board, it would be diverted to other cancer sufferers. Miss Board, who is suffering from intestinal cancer, rested in bed in the clinic to prepare for an extensive examination by Dr Issels. who is returning from Baden-Baden to take personal charge of her case. Mr Emery spent the day at her bedside. He will stay with her throughout her treatmentexpected to last about three months.

.Dr Issels claims to have developed a treatment for cancer by dealing with it as part of an over-all Illness of the body rather than as an Infection of one part of it One of his assistants, Dr W. Fry da, said that about 17 percent of allegedly “Incurable” patients sent to Dr Issels recovered if they followed his treatment to the letter. 120 PATIENTS The clinic now has 120 patients from 14 countries, including several from England and the United States. Dr Fryda said Miss Board’s treatment would include regular medicines and herbal preparations for her general condition, and a special “immunological powder against the cancer. This powder, which is not generally available, is administered regularly every few days, according to Dr Issels’s diagnosis. The treatment also includes instilling the “will to live” in the patient. Dr Fryda said Dr Issels did not claim to be able to cure his cancer patients during their > three months at the clinic, but i aimed to ensure that they left ‘ In better condition that when ‘ they arrived. His treaments had i to be continued at home. I She said cancer patients wete full of “toxins and poisons,” and the purpose of the clinic stay was to have the patient under ■ supervision while these were > eradicated. A former patient, Mr p. ' Newton-Fendow, of Hampstead, London, said in an interview with the “Daily Mirror:” “Dr Issels plays it straight With you all the way.” Mr Newton-Fenbow said he went to the clinic as a ‘no hope” case in 1967, and believes himself to be cured. He is now leading a campaign to introduce Dr Issel’s therapy to Britain.