Hyperthermia with Chemotherapy Study

What is hyperthermia?
Hyperthermia (also called thermal therapy or thermotherapy) is a type of cancer treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures (up to 113 degrees F).  Research has shown that high temperatures can damage and kill cancer cells, usually with minimal injury to normal tissues (pubmed abstract-12181239).  By killing cancer cells and damaging proteins and structures within cells (pubmed abstract-12098606), hyperthermia may shrink tumors.

How is hyperthermia used to treat cancer?
Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of cancer therapy, such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy (pubmed abstracts-12181239,12147435).  Hyperthermia may make some cancer cells more sensitive to radiation or harm other cancer cells that radiation cannot damage.  Hyperthermia can also enhance the effects of certain anticancer drugs.

Numerous clinical trials have studied hyperthermia in combination with radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy.  Such cancers studied include:  sarcoma, melanoma, and cancers of the head and neck, brain, lung, esophagus, breast, bladder, rectum, liver, appendix, cervix, and peritoneal lining (mesothelioma) (pubmed abstracts-12181239,12147435,11212876).  Many of these studies, but not all, have shown a significant reduction in tumor size when hyperthermia is combined with other treatments.  source: NCI

Hyperthermia with Chemotherapy Study
Hyperthermia can increase the effect of chemotherapy treatments.  By itself, it can also kill cancer cells.  By using heat to treat the whole body, we can treat cancer cells wherever they are throughout the entire body.

The Hyperthermia/Chemotherapy Study consists of:

• Raising temperature of the body to 104 degrees F over a period of 60-120 minutes.
• Then administering a chemotherapy drug - maintaining the 104 degree F body temperature for 6 hours.
• After the 6 hours the body is cooled off to normal temperature which takes about 30-45 minutes.
• The entire procedure lasts 8 hours
• The patient is then observed for 2-24 hours after
• The hyperthermia/chemotherapy treatment is repeated every 3-4 weeks
• CT and/or MRI scans are performed to note changes in tumor size.

Hyperthermia Therapy recommended by HealthIsInReach

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2. Expands Capillaries
3. Helps Cells Regenerate

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