Triple Negative Breast Cancer: A Highly Significant Finding
Ralf Kleef, MD, Vienna, Austria TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER: A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT FINDING In mid-September 2018, the medical journal Integrative Cancer Therapies (SAGE), published a...
Hyperthermia
The Power of Metabolic Therapy
Outstanding Biologist My good friend, Thomas Seyfried, PhD, an outstanding biologist at Boston College, is senior author on an amazing case report of a complete remission in a patient with...
Hyperthermia
Transcript The word hyperthermia means high heat and not to be confused with hypothermia, which is low, you know, low temperature. And the problem with the word hyperthermia is that there's also...
Basics of Hyperthermia
What is Hyperthermia Treatment for Cancer?Clinical hyperthermia is the application of heat to the treatment of disease, in this case, cancer. The forms of electromagnetic energy that have been...
Hyperthermia’s Slow March to Acceptance
Hyperthermia’s Slow March to Acceptance Hyperthermia –the therapeutic use of heat in treating cancer – continues to make slow but steady progress in the U.S. The latest indication is the fact...
Oncothermia: Principles and Practices
A Summation of the Life Work of a Remarkable Hungarian Scientist Review of A Textbook by Andras Szasz, Nora Szasz, and Oliver Szasz Springer Verlag There have been numerous books and monographs...
Hyperthermia Moves to Fore as CAM Treatment of Cancer
Heat Therapy for Cancer Continues to Gain Support Hyperthermia refers to heating a particular region of the body or heating the whole body, in order to fight cancer. Hyperthermia works by (a)...
Types of Hyperthermia Equipment
The Machinery Makes a DifferenceThe effectiveness of hyperthermia depends on the machines that are available in the marketplace. Four leading manufacturers of hyperthermia equipment are Pyrexar...
Whole Body Hyperthermia: Fighting Cancer With Heat
Fever as Medicine Whole body hyperthermia (WBH) is a technique for heating the entire body in an effort to kill both primary and metastatic cancer cells. While there are hundreds of articles on...
Hyperthermia – A Hot Topic
Two Broad ApproachesSome people believe that in Germany all cancer care is holistic. One popular report states; “Germany’s top cancer doctors…literally cook cancer out of your body while you...
A Big Boost for Hyperthermia
The JNCI Publishes a Positive Trial The January 20, 2010, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) contained a highly positive, three-page news article on the use of...
Hyperthermia Equipment and Caveats
What You Need to Know about Heat Therapy Risks and Contraindications of Hyperthermia The benefits of hyperthermia should be obvious. But prospective patients need to understand that,...
Intraperitoneal Heated Chemotherapy – HIPEC
Bringing the Heat to ChemoCarcinomatosis is the name given to the condition in advanced cancer where multiple metastases have seeded themselves widely in distant organs. When this occurs in...
Hyperthermia – Heat Therapy – Risks and Contradictions
Important Considerations of HyperthermiaHyperthermia is among the best tested and most effective forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It is a classic additive therapy. That...
Is Having a Fever a Good Thing?
Fever is actually beneficial for those receiving immune therapy (such as IL-2) for cancer. In fact, it is an essential part of the treatment. Patients whose fever was left untreated lived almost...
Hyperthermia for Sarcoma
Using Heat to Treat Hyperthermia is another term for medical heat therapy. It is a very promising aspect of contemporary sarcoma treatment, although insufficiently recognized in the...
New Success for Hyperthermia vs Childhood Tumors
A Published Result In July, The Lancet Oncology published an article on the beneficial effects of hyperthermia (heat therapy) in the treatment of children with germ cell tumors. Deep-tissue...
Hyperthermia Extends Survival
Hyperthermia Extends Survival On February 15, JAMA Oncology published a phase III randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the use of regional hyperthermia (heat therapy) with chemotherapy for soft...
Hyperthermia and Colorectal Cancer
Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)Dutch scientists reported beneficial results using hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a heated form of chemotherapy that is...
Hyperthermia Success in Treating Rectal Cancer and Lung Cancer
The Research is Heating Up Hyperthermia (heat therapy) continues to rack up successes in treating various types of cancer. The latest report came at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s...
Hyperthermia for Head and Neck Cancer
Using Heat to Treat TumorsHyperthermia (heat therapy) is especially promising in the treatment of head and neck cancers. That is because surgery (a frequently recommended treatment) can be...
Progress in Hyperthermia – Pancreatic Cancer
Encouraging Research One of the great hopes of the CAM movement is hyperthermia, which is the use of therapeutic heating to treat cancer. A recent study adds “fuel to the fire” as it were in...
Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion (HILP)
A Blood BypassA “blood bypass,” carried out under general anesthesia, involves completely bypassing the affected limb’s blood supply. The main artery and vein supplying the limb are connected to...
Hyperthermia Evidence
Scientific StudiesRandomized Controlled TrialsThe modern scientific acceptance of hyperthermia rests on several outstanding randomized trials: one that was organized in Munich, Germany for the...
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
Therapeutic Ultrasound Therapy The use of therapeutic ultrasound dates to the discoveries of Francis J. and William J. Fry at the University of Illinois Champlain in the 1950s. They showed that...
Hyperthermia and Breast Cancer Research
Hyperthermia and Breast CancerQuotes from the research: “Tumors treated with radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy plus one heat treatment started to regrow, whereas those treated with radiotherapy...
Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
Killing Cancer Cells via Thermal Coagulative NecrosisRadiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive technique for removing, or “ablating,” tumors. RFA induces cell death by what is called...
Hyperthermia Against Mesothelioma
Interest in CRS + HIPEC for MesotheliomaThere is considerable interest in using hyperthermia (or heat therapy) against mesothelioma, due to the increased adoption of cytoreductive surgery (CRS)...
Hyperthermia Continues to Advance
Technical and Scientific Progress The forward march of hyperthermia is one of the most encouraging developments in integrative oncology. The 21st Century Oncology center in Fort Myers, Florida,...
Hope for Cancer Patients – A New Source
There's a fascinating report on so-called spontaneous regressions or remissions of cancer in a British newspaper, giving a source of hope for cancer patients....