About us

Dr. Gorter is a long-term cancer survivor himself. In 1975, he was diagnosed with an end-stage cancer and had few standard therapeutic options, but he wanted to go his own way and he would apply immune therapy; nontoxic cancer approach.

“At that time, the dendritic cells were not known, therefore we couldn’t use them therapeutically, but I did hyperthermia and I injected myself as a doctor with Viscum album (Mistletoe). I decided not to reveal my end-stage cancer diagnosis and instead of focusing on the disease, I put all my energy into building a professional career. As a practicing physician, knowing that chemotherapy and radiation would inflict massive toxic side effects without much hope of a prolonged life expectancy, I decided to decline these options and go for a nontoxic cancer therapy. It took me about one year to achieve complete remission.   It has now been more than four decades ago since I was given that end-stage cancer diagnosis and I continue to live all these years to the fullest, without any signs or symptoms of cancer. I think what also really helps is how one’s mind and heart work together, to have a vision and feel that you are in control of your therapy, of your life.   Of course, hope is extremely important as well. I really believe this is the basis of the Gorter Model that we try to the best we can to give patients a realistic hope.”