Clinical Application of Hyperthermia

Status of clinical hyperthermia.

Hyperthermia in clinical oncology.

THE CLINICAL application of hyperthermia has a strong biological rationale [l-3]. Experimental and clinical studies indicate that tumour control rates can be significantly enhanced if, for example, radiation therapy is combined with hyperthermia [4, 51. If a tumour is heated one or more times to a temperature of 43°C or higher for an hour, the probability of response or permanent control increa...

Clinical Application of Renin

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Clinical applications of magnetic nanoparticles for hyperthermia.

Magnetic fluids are increasingly used for clinical applications such as drug delivery, magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic fluid hyperthermia. The latter technique that has been developed as a cancer treatment for several decades comprises the injection of magnetic nanoparticles into tumors and their subsequent heating in an alternating magnetic field. Depending on the applied temperature a...

Hyperthermia Combined with Chemotherapy – Biological Rationale, Clinical Application, and Treatment Results

There is substantial evidence from preclinical data that the antitumor cytotoxicity of selected chemotherapeutic agents either alone or combined with radiation can be enhanced by appropriate heat exposure (40–44 °C) of cells or tumor tissues. Based upon these results the integration of hyperthermia as an additional treatment modality, given simultaneously with systemic chemotherapy or in combin...