Hyperthermia and Cancer
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT: The use of hyperthermia (heat) in the treatment of malignant tumors is as old as medicine itself. For example, the 5000-year old Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus mentions heat as potential treatment for breast cancer [1]. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, proposed that surface tumors should be cauterized by application of hot iron. In modern times, more advanced methods (hot water bath, pyrogens such as mixed bacterial toxins, perfusion heating, high frequency radiation, magnetic fluid hyperthermia) were employed to heat, and hopefully destroy, tumors.
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