Hyperthermia

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-hyperthermia is said to " mimic " fever therapy...

I researched hyperthermia for colon cancer (on behalf of my husband)

and found the below article, about treatment of liver mets

with regional hyperthermia.

However, if your met is near the heart, I suspect that regional

hyperthermia cannot be used in this body part.

What body temperature do you achieve with infrared lamp sauna?

Another type of hyperthermia is whole body hyperthermia,

moderate (body temperature about 40 degrees c.) or

systemic whole body hyperthermia (body temperature about 42 degrees

c.)

Whole body hyperthermia is used in some cancer clinics , under

sedation, often combined with immunotherapy or low dose chemo;

it is said to help destroying cancer cells reducing difficult

tumors if surgery is not possible...

karla

:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=10629627 & dopt=Abstract

Deep hyperthermia with radiofrequencies in patients with liver

metastases from colorectal cancer.

Hager ED, Dziambor H, Hohmann D, Gallenbeck D, Stephan M, Popa C.

BioMed-Klinik, Center for Complementary Oncology and Hyperthermia,

Bad Bergzabern, Germany.

Patients at advanced stage of colorectal cancer with liver metastases

have been treated with deep hyperthermia alone or in combination with

chemotherapy (5-FU + FA + MMC). Hyperthermia was achieved by

arrangements of capacitive electrodes with a radiofrequency field of

13.56 MHz (RF-DHT). This prospective open single-arm clinical study

with 80 patients suffering from liver metastases from colorectal

cancer gives some first hints, that deep RF-hyperthermia alone may

have a substantial beneficial effect on overall survival time of

patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer. Long lasting

no-change, partial and even some complete remissions could be

observed. The overall median survival time from progression of

metastases or relapse was 24.5 months and survival rates at 1, 2 or 3

years from first diagnosis of metastases or progression were twice as

high as expected from patients treated with chemotherapy. The

combination of hyperthermia with delayed chemotherapy did not change

overall survival time. These encouraging results deserve to be

confirmed in randomized clinical studies.

Publication Types:

Clinical Trial

Dorr <dorrnancy@...> wrote:

> Karla,

Can you explain this procedure: " did you consider regional deep

hyperthermia with radiofrequencies for control of lung mets? "

I am using the infrared lamp sauna treatment.