— What we treat

Melanoma Treatment in Mexico

Melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer and can spread quickly if not treated early. At Immunotherapy Institute, we offer a comprehensive, integrative approach that combines advanced medical treatments with immune system support—designed to help patients manage the disease while maintaining quality of life.

What Is Melanoma?

Melanoma develops in melanocytes, the cells responsible for producing skin pigment. While it most commonly appears on the skin, it can also develop in less visible areas of the body.

Because melanoma can spread to other organs if not treated in time, early diagnosis and personalized treatment planning are critical for improving outcomes.

Symptoms of Melanoma

Melanoma often appears as changes in the skin. Common signs include:

  • New or changing moles
  • Irregular borders or uneven color
  • Dark spots that grow or change over time
  • Itching, bleeding, or tenderness in a skin lesion

Diagnosis and Conventional Treatment

Diagnosis typically involves a skin examination and biopsy to confirm the presence of melanoma. Additional imaging may be used to determine whether the cancer has spread and to define its stage.

Treatment depends on the stage and may include surgical removal of the tumor, as well as therapies such as immunotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation, or chemotherapy to control disease progression.

An Integrative Approach to Melanoma Treatment

At Immunotherapy Institute, we complement conventional oncology with therapies designed to strengthen the immune system and support the body’s ability to respond to treatment. Our approach focuses not only on controlling tumor growth but also on improving overall health and resilience.

Treatment plans may include advanced immunotherapy, metabolic and nutritional support, and therapies aimed at enhancing treatment effectiveness while minimizing side effects. Each program is personalized based on the patient’s condition, medical history, and treatment goals.

Supporting the Body Throughout Treatment

Maintaining strength and balance during treatment is essential. Our programs include targeted nutrition, immune support, and carefully selected therapies designed to help patients better tolerate treatment and maintain quality of life.

By addressing inflammation and supporting cellular health, we aim to create an internal environment that supports recovery and long-term wellness.

Personalized Care for Every Patient

Every case of melanoma is unique. That’s why we take the time to understand your full medical history, lifestyle, and goals before designing a treatment plan. Our multidisciplinary team works closely with you throughout the process, adapting your care as needed to support both immediate progress and long-term outcomes.

Explore Your Treatment Options

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with melanoma, our team is here to help you understand your options and take the next step with confidence.

Immunotherapy

The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to improve the body’s natural ability to find and destroy cancer cells. Successful immunotherapeutic approaches stimulate the natural defenses of the immune system and provide new ways to attack cancer. This is possible with comprehensive interventions that include cell therapy / immuno-pharmacological therapy in combination with nutritional, endocrine measures, and supplements.

Dendritic enhancer or T-cell modulators

T-cell Modulators are peptide chains composed of tens of amino acids that appear to store all the experience of the immune system. The great intellectual leap to understand is that T-cell Modulators do not transfer antibodies nor create them directly, but its function is to educate, and teach the immune cells to recognize specific antigens that could happen to them unnoticed.

T-cell Modulators do not cure anything but work to make a “smarter” immune system so that it is the body itself eliminating disease. They are therefore vital in developing the strategies of the immune system against cancer.

T-cell Modulators contains several immunoactivity components that have been shown to act synergistically in raising Dendritic and NK function and effective as adjuvant therapy in soft tissue sarcoma, elevating dendritic and NK function as much as 250%

Hyperthermia

Hyperthermia involves the use of heat to directly treat a tumor or increase the vulnerability of cancer cells to other forms of treatment, such as immunotherapy, B17, vitamin C, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Liposomal Mistletoe

Mistletoe helps fight tumor-induced immune suppression. Natural killer cells (NK) are a type of white blood cell that looks for and destroys Prostate cancer cells. Research has shown that NK cells can spontaneously recognize and kill a variety of cancer cells.

Mistletoe has been called a biological response modifier due to its ability to improve various aspects of immune function. Studies show that it activates natural killer cells, T cells, macrophages and monocytes.

A special proprietary form of liposomal mistletoe created with nanotechnology has been created for use in our Prostate cancer treatment approach.

Glutathione

Glutathione is the most important antioxidant produced by your body and a master detoxifier of every cell in your body. It prevents cellular damage caused by free radicals and peroxides. Glutathione metabolism can play both protective and pathogenic roles. It is crucial in the removal and detoxification of carcinogens, and alterations in this pathway can have a profound effect on cell survival. However, by conferring resistance to several chemotherapeutic drugs, elevated levels of glutathione in tumor cells can protect such cells.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble micronutrient, which plays a role in the maintenance of calcium and phosphate homeostasis, predominantly increasing the gut absorption of calcium and phosphate. High concentrations of circulating vitamin D has been found to be associated with reduced melanoma progression and improved survival. Furthermore, reduced vitamin D serum levels have been reported in patients with stage IV melanoma compared with those with stage I.

A study done to 204 patients suggests a role of vitamin D levels in melanoma aggressiveness and raises the question as to whether vitamin D levels should be monitored, or even supplemented, in people with low yearly sun exposure.

Zinc

Healthy prostate cells accumulate zinc to accomplish their normal cellular functions. In contrast, prostate cancer cells have depleted zinc stores, which makes them less susceptible to cell death.

Melatonin

Melatonin, a hormone best known for its role in regulating sleep, is also emerging as a promising anti-cancer agent. Evidence to date has shown that melatonin can interfere with cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis.

Studies indicate an oncostatic capacity of melatonin in a time-dependent manner (24, 48, 72 hours) in highly pigmented MNT-1 melanoma cells.

Fish Oil and Omega-3 Fatty Acid

These fatty acids have many health benefits and may even slow the growth of melanoma. In laboratory and animal studies, omega-3 fatty acids were found to inhibit inflammation, interfere with blood vessel growth in tumors, and cause cancer cells to die.

The treatment by gavage with a mixture of fish and soybean oils (1:1 ratio) both reduced the melanoma growth and the levels of leukotriene B4 (LTB4), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), PGE2/prostaglandin E3 (PGE3) ratio, and CXC ligand 1 (CXCL1) and increased the levels of interleukin 10 (IL-10) to IL-10/CXCL1 ratio in the melanoma microenvironment.

Diseases Treated at Integrative Immunotherapy Institute

Adenocarcinoma
Adrenal Cancer
Anal Cancer
Appendix Cancer
Bile Duct Cancer
Bladder Cancer
Bone Cancer
Brain Cancer
Breast Cancer
Carcinoid Tumors
Cervical Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
Esophageal Cancer
Eye Cancer
Gallbladder Cancer
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Head and Neck Cancer
Hodgkin Lymphoma
Intestinal Cancer
Kidney Cancer
Leukemia
Liver Cancer
Lung Cancer
Lymphoma
Melanoma
Mesothelioma
Metastatic Squamous Neck
Cancer
Multiple Myeloma
Neuroblastoma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)
Oral Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Penile Cancer
Primary Central Nervous System
(CNS) Lymphoma
Prostate Cancer
Sinus Cancer
Skin Cancer
Small Intestine Cancer
Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Spinal Cancer
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Stomach Cancer
Testicular Cancer
Throat Cancer
Thymoma / Thymic Carcinoma
Thyroid Cancer
Urethral Cancer
Uterine Cancer
Vaginal Cancer
Vulvar Cancer
Bacterial & Viral Infections
Hepatitis C
Lyme Disease
Addison’s Disease
Arthritis
Asthma
Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
Celiac Disease
Colitis
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Cushing Syndrome
Eczema
Fibromyalgia
Graves’ Disease
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Hemolytic Anemia
Lupus
Psoriasis
Vitiligo
Alzheimer’s Disease
Diabetes
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Parkinson’s Disease

Questions? We've got answers.

How do you handle complications or side effects?

Patients are monitored daily during treatment. Side effects are tracked, documented, and addressed in real time; sometimes with medication adjustments, sometimes with supportive therapy, occasionally by pausing a treatment. The treating physician reviews the patient's status every day the patient is on-site.

Can I continue treatments I'm already on at home?

Usually yes, but it depends on the specific medication and how it interacts with our protocol. Bring a complete medication list to the consultation. We coordinate with your home physician where possible.

Will my treatment plan change while I'm here?

Sometimes. Blood work, imaging, and response markers are checked during your stay, and the protocol is adjusted if the data suggests it should be. Any meaningful change is reviewed with you before it's implemented.

How is my treatment plan decided?

After we receive your medical records, imaging, and pathology, your case is reviewed by the medical board. They draft a proposed protocol, which therapies, in what sequence, over how many days. You then have a consultation with the treating physician to review it, ask questions, and adjust before anything begins.

Do you offer CAR-T therapy?

Yes, we offer CAR-T therapy in addition to our broader autologous immunotherapy program. Both are built on the same core principle; collecting the patient's own immune cells, engineering or activating them to better recognize cancer, and reinfusing them to do the work. The specifics of which approach fits your case, and how it's delivered, are reviewed during the medical consultation.

What supportive therapies do you offer?

IV vitamin C, ozone therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, peptide therapy, IV nutrition, metabolic support, lymphatic therapy, and others, selected based on the patient's case, not applied as a fixed menu. These are supportive, not curative; they're used to help the body tolerate and respond to the core treatment.

Do you use radiation?

Radiation is not delivered on-site. When radiation is part of the recommended plan, we coordinate with established radiation oncology centers and incorporate it into the broader protocol.

Do you use chemotherapy?

We do, when it's the right tool for a given case, and we say so clearly. For some cancers, low-dose or fractionated chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy is more effective than immunotherapy alone. We don't reject chemo as a category; we use it strategically and at the lowest effective dose.

Do you only treat late-stage or terminal patients?

No. We see patients at every stage, newly diagnosed, in active treatment elsewhere, in remission and looking to lower recurrence risk, and patients who have exhausted conventional options. The protocol is adjusted to the situation.

How does diet affect my immune system?

Our immune system is our army, responsible for protecting us from any possible threat, internal or external. Our food supply is full of chemicals more now than ever, to create shelf life and to preserve the quality of the product, and to avoid contamination, yet it is not related to nutrient lifespan. We now know that food can trigger inflammation and alter our digestive processes, potentially leading to severe dysfunction and disease.

Why are supplements part of the Institute nutritional plan?

Supplements are a main part of a healthy diet regimen. We offer a more specialized line of supplements to our patients designed for them. Our medical team takes into consideration your medical history, lab work, specific medical tests, genetics, physical state, lifestyle, age, gender and type of disease.

Your supplements are reviewed and altered with time as our patients heal and their body finds the balance it needs.

What are the characteristics of the Institute nutrition plan?

Our nutritional plan is:

  • Chemical and preservatives free.
  • Organic fruit and vegetables.
  • Hormone free meat.
  • Personalized supplements.
  • Metal and mercury free fish.
  • Hypo allergenic.
  • Gluten and diary free to promote immune tolerance.
  • Alkaline to optimize the internal environment to fight and overcome cancer.

How do you create my nutrition plan?

Your personalized nutritional plan is developed, reviewed and redefined by our specialized medical team with our clinical nutritionist, kitchen staff and functional trained chefs.

They take into consideration your unique needs in a stressful situation, nutritional deficiencies, the nutritive food you desperately need, allergies and personal preference of taste and food appearance.

What is the main difference between Enhanced Low Dose Chemo vs conventional chemotherapy?

At the immunotherapy Institute, we use a proprietary method called “Enhanced Low Dose Chemotherapy”, this is a metabolic-supported low dose chemotherapy.

“Enhanced Low Dose Chemotherapy” targets a cell and changes its composition.

First, it attacks the cancer cell through its internal environment and then via the external environment by “prepping” the cancer cell so it becomes more vulnerable to treatment.

In more simple words, “Enhanced Low Dose Chemotherapy”  is just a fraction of the normal dose and it only goes after the cancer cells instead of your whole body, which reduces or eliminates the horrible side-effects of conventional chemo.

What kind of hyperthermia do you offer?

There are two types, regional and systemic.

Regional refers to the increase of temperature of a single zone or area.

Systemic is whole-body hyperthermia, which refers to the increase in temperature to hyperthermic levels over the entire body.

Hyperthermia is proven to enhance the effect of anti-cancer treatments like immunotherapy and conventional treatments such as chemo or radiation.

Positive trials have established hyperthermia, in combination with anti-cancer drugs, as a breakthrough cancer treatment.

Hyperthermia doesn’t have any side effects.

Another thing you might wonder is, How long will each session be?

We see great outcomes with 2 to 4 hour-long sessions.

What are the benefits of the hyperthermia we use at our center?

It’s fast acting. You’ll feel results within the first couple of sessions.
You’ll be alert, you won’t have to go through sedation and anesthesia.

You won’t experience any discomfort, which allows for a much larger period, and hence, achieves in a single session, what would take us up to 8 sessions to achieve with other methods.

What is the difference between the Immunotherapy offered through your program and what my doctors are recommending at home?

There are two main types of immunotherapy, chemical, and autologous immunotherapy; we have seen great success with the latter.

In the autologous cellular immunotherapy process, we collect your immune cells and infuse them back into your body after culture.

In the process we activate the anti-tumor response and “train these cells” to effectively target and attack cancer cells.

Autologous Cellular Immunotherapy is made out of specific types of cells mainly Dendritic, NK cells and T lymphocytes.

These cells act against the cancer cells and recharge the immune system.

When they find a tumor cell, the NK and T cells bind themselves to its membrane and inject toxins which kill the cancer cell.

In less than five minutes, the cancer cell dies and the NK and T cells move on to their next target.

Every single case has different specifications, which is why its so important to explore your unique situation.

To find out if this is the right therapy for you, please contact us via phone or Facebook.

What are the side effects of cancer treatment?

Because our program employs natural treatments that only enhance the body’s own natural ability to attack cancer, there’s no negative side-effects. Patients who have previously undergone chemotherapy will be administered a chemo-preconditioning program that will decrease the negative side-effects like, such as hair loss, nausea, toxicity, anemia, and others, until the body is in optimal condition for our treatment program.

What is the probability of curing my cancer?

Unfortunately there’s no guarantees, however our statistical studies have shown that if admitted into our program, there’s a very high chance that the patient will have a positive outcome, in fact on average, 80% of our cancer patients have managed to control their cancer into a manageable state that allows them to gain quality-of-life and avoid the major set-backs known to most cancer patients, or in many cases have completely cured their cancer. Please talk to our doctors so that they can assess your situation and provide a better idea of your possibilities.

Can I undergo treatment at the Institute if I've undergone chemotherapy?

Yes, many of our patients are still doing chemotherapy or have had it done in the past. One of the great benefits of our treatments is that it doesn’t affect being in chemo like most other treatments, in fact, many of our most successful cases have already done chemo in the past. Our treatments will precondition the body to eliminate the toxic effects from previous chemotherapy to get the body to its optimal condition for the treatment.

Can the Institute treat Stage IV cancer?

Yes, in fact, over half of cancer patients are stage IV and although each patient’s outcome is different based on their current health situation, medical history, eating habits, and overall lifestyle, our studies have shown that 90% of our cancer patients have benefited from our treatments. It’s very important that patients in stage 4 make timely decisions because time is of the essence for the treatment to take a positive effect.

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