death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
11 february 1998 mönchengladbach german 21 november 1907 promoting for cancer the issels treatment , an unproven alternative treatment josef issels
 josef m. issels physician
josef issels

josef m. issels -lrb- november 21 , 1907 -- february 11 , 1998 -rrb- was a german physician known for promoting an alternative cancer therapy regimen , the issels treatment .
he claimed to cure cancer patients who had been declared incurable by conventional cancer treatments .
during issels ' lifetime , his methods were controversial , and in 1961 he was charged with fraud and manslaughter for allegedly promising fraudulent cancer cures and for the subsequent deaths of patients under his care who refused standard cancer treatment .
an initial conviction on the manslaughter charge was overturned in 1964 on the grounds that issels had genuinely believed that his therapy could cure cancer .
the issels treatment is currently considered unproven and ineffective as a treatment for cancer .
