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	Hyperthermia Information on Healthline
		A form of localized hyperthermia used to treat benign enlarged prostate glands can be performed in a doctor's office in as little as an hour, and this method does not have the side effects, such as impotence and incontinence, that often accompany traditional prostate surgery.
		Localized hyperthermia was being studied in the late 1990s for treatment of other conditions, including menorrhagia (heavy menstrual periods) and malignant tumors of the liver and rectum.
		Whole body hyperthermia continues to be studied and tested for its impact on cancers, and a test underway in 1999 in Texas examined this therapy for patients with AIDS.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/hyperthermia (1069 words)

	Hyperthermia for the Treatment of Cancer
		Externally generated hyperthermia is covered under Medicare when used in connection with radiation therapy for the treatment of primary or metastatic cutaneous or subcutaneous superficial malignancies.
		Hyperthermia treatments must be performed within one hour of (before or after), and in conjunction with, radiation therapy treatments.
		Hyperthermia treatments rendered in natural cavities of the body (intracavitary) are considered experimental and are not a covered benefit under Medicare.
	www.medicarenhic.com /cal_prov/med_review/hyperthermia_0504.htm (695 words)

	ACS :: Hyperthermia
		Hyperthermia is the use of heat to treat cancer.
		Another approach to regional hyperthermia uses devices that are placed on the surface of the body and produce high energy waves directed at a specific area.
		While hyperthermia is a promising way to enhance cancer treatment, it is largely an experimental technique at this time and is not commonly used in cancer treatment.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/ETO/content/ETO_1_2x_Hyperthermia.asp (1004 words)

	Local Hyperthermia Skin Cancer Treatment
		Hyperthermia is a type of treatment in which skin tissue is exposed to high temperatures (up to 106ºF), to damage and kill cancer cells, or to make cancer cells more sensitive to the effects of radiation and certain anticancer drugs.
		Local hyperthermia treatment (heat applied to a very small area, such as a tumor) is a well-established cancer treatment method with a simple basic principle: If a rise in temperature to 106ºF can be obtained for one hour within a cancer tumor, the cancer cells will be destroyed.
		Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of therapy (radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and biotherapy/immunotherapy) to increase their effectiveness.
	www.cancercenter.com /skin-cancer/local-hyperthermia.cfm (444 words)

	Etta Kilbane Hyperthermia Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The word hyperthermia means "elevated body temperature" and in a medical context refers to the use of heat in the treatment of disease.
		Exactly how hyperthermia works is complex and still under investigation, but clinical research has demonstrated that hyperthermia both causes tumor regression on its own and increases the sensitivity of tumor cells to radiation and chemotherapy.
		Although hyperthermia alone is damaging to tumors, it is most effective when used in conjunction with radiation therapy and, to a more limited extent, with chemotherapy.
	www.pamf.org /radonc/tech/hyperthermia.html (1127 words)

	Hyperthermia Regains Attention as Cancer Treatment Strategy
		Hyperthermia, however, seems to have retained its novelty—a perpetual newcomer in a world where surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the much more established players.
		Hyperthermia, as a radiosensitizer, is used in treating a few cancers in some radiation oncology departments.
		Hyperthermia treatments are also labor intensive; staff must continually monitor the temperature of the tumor during the session, since reaching and maintaining the optimal temperature—between 40 and 44 degrees centigrade—is crucial to the effectiveness of hyperthermia and to prevent burns.
	www.rsna.org /Publications/rsnanews/nov05/hyperthermia.cfm (1133 words)

	Hyperthermia
		Hyperthermia has since inhabited a strange in-between land of having its value recognized, and being used sporadically in some cancer centers, while ignored or underutilized by most oncologists around the country, and largely unknown to the public.
		Hyperthermia improves the therapeutic index of TBI (total body irradiation), not only by increased neoplastic cell kill, but also by inhibiting the expression of radiation induced damage to the normal cell population.
		Whole body hyperthermia is done at 41.8° C with the Aquatherm radiant heat device invented by Dr Robins, and in use now in several centers.
	www.geocities.com /HotSprings/Villa/5443/alts/hytherm.html (4248 words)

	Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment: Q & A - National Cancer Institute
		Hyperthermia is a type of cancer treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures (up to 113°F) to damage and kill cancer cells (see Question 1).
		Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of cancer therapy, such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy (see Question 2).
		The effectiveness of hyperthermia treatment is related to the temperature achieved during the treatment, as well as the length of treatment and cell and tissue characteristics (1, 2).
	www.cancer.gov /cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/hyperthermia (1237 words)

	Perfusional Hhyperthermia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hyperthermia consist of the use of external heating to increase body temperature and in that fashion increase the susceptibility of cancer cells to the activity of chemotherapy or of radiation.
		Hyperthermia alone may also reduce the bulk of a cancer to permit effective surgery on what would otherwise be an inoperable lesion.
		Hyperthermia, them is a legitimate technique which potentiates the activity of other therapies (immunolgic, chemotherapepeutic, radiation, surgical) and may permit conservation of an acceptable quality of life for the patient treated.
	www.hyperthermia.it /pages/02dx.htm (1628 words)

	BSD Medical : Hyperthermia Defined
		Microwave hyperthermia is a non-ionizing form of radiation therapy that has been shown to improve the results of radiation therapy for the treatment of some recurrent and progressive tumors.
		Cancer cells may be vulnerable to hyperthermia therapy particularly due to their high acidity caused by theeir inability to properly expel waste.
		The basis for the additive effect of hyperthermia on radiotherapy comes from the ability of hyperthermia to kill cells that are hypoxic, have a low pH, and are in the S-phase of division, which are all conditions that make cells radioresistant.
	heatcancer.com /hyperthermia.php?pageid=2 (477 words)

	Hyperthermia
		Toxic conditions are benefitted by the fact that hyperthermia increases metabolism and thus the rate of detoxification.
		Hyperthermia provides just such a differentiation between host cells and cancer cells, viruses, some bacteria and protozoa.
		Hyperthermia can be induced locally, to treat, for example, local infections such as URIs, or whole-body when a more generalized response is needed, as for example in HIV or metastatic cancer.
	www.medical-library.net /specialtiesd/_hyperthermia.html (457 words)

	XV ICHS Meeting, USA
		The hyperthermia treatment objective was to deliver 42.0 – 44.0 degree C for 45050 minutes per session twice weekly with a median total of 10 sessions during the above referenced radiation schedule.
		Hyperthermia has been proven to increase the response of malignant tumors to radiation therapy in both experimental animal tumors and the clinical treatment of human cancer.
		The Hyperthermia part of the protocol extends the number of heat treatments to correspond to the number of radiation-fractions, as each hyperthermia treatment proceeds or follows each radiation treatment in close time proximity.
	www.hyperthermia-ichs.org /xvichs.htm (4736 words)

	NIA - Hyperthermia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		“Hyperthermia” is the general name given to a variety of heat-related illnesses.
		The two most common forms of hyperthermia are heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
		It is important to realize that older people are at particular risk of hyperthermia.
	www.wramc.amedd.army.mil /education/hyperthe.htm (962 words)

	FASEB Breakthroughs in Bioscience - Making Anesthesia Safer: Unraveling the Malignant Hyperthermia Puzzle
		Because malignant hyperthermia occurs uncommonly and unpredictably, the manufacturer of dantrolene and its clinical research manager begin a multiple center study by enlisting anesthesiologists from 65 institutions in the United States and Canada.
		In the developed world, malignant hyperthermia hotlines are established and staffed by anesthesiologists who volunteer their time to provide continuous expert medical advice to medical professionals confronted with malignant hyperthermia crises, which could occur anywhere that anesthetic agents are given.
		All pig malignant hyperthermia is linked to the presence of a cysteine rather than an arginine amino acid produced by the mistaken substitution of a C (cytosine) for a T (thymine) nucleic acid in the pig DNA.
	opa.faseb.org /pages/PublicEducators/mh/default.htm (4674 words)

	Hyperthermia
		Local hyperthermia entails elevating the temperature of superficial or subcutaneous tumors while sparing surrounding normal tissue, using either external or interstitial modalities.
		The use of hyperthermia as an adjunct to radiation or chemotherapy of superficial tumors has been an area of active investigation for the past 20 years, in part due to improvements in instrumentation and temperature monitoring technique, as well as an increasing understanding of the biology of hyperthermia.
		In summary, all of the published studies of whole body hyperthermia are non-randomized patient series in which patients were highly selected, and data on long term outcomes and survival were not available.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/medicine/med15.html (1843 words)

	Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment
		Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of therapy (radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and biological therapy) to try to increase their effectiveness.
		Local hyperthermia refers to heat that is applied to a very small area, such as a tumor.
		In regional hyperthermia, an organ or a limb is heated.
	cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk /cancernet/600073.html (585 words)

	hyperthermia in the clinical oncology
		Hyperthermia is one of the strongest modifiers of chemotherapy
		Sensitization of tumours to hyperthermia caused by low pH is not obvious in cells under chronic acidosis.
		It is necessary to induce acute acidosis for sensitizing cells to hyperthermia.
	hyperthermia.bog.freeservers.com /hyperth1.htm (682 words)

	Hyperthermia - mIRacle Heat Saunas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hyperthermia involves raising the temperature of the body area surrounding a malignant tumor, or in many cases, the whole body itself, to levels of heat and for periods of time lethal to the cancerous tissue but not injurious to other cells.
		In Janice’s case, the abdominal area was perfused with the chemotherapy agents cisplatain and carboplatin during hyperthermia treatment.
		But do not get the impression that hyperthermia is effective only when used with chemotherapy or radiation: it is also used to potentiate the effects of various nutritional and herbal anti-cancer remedies.
	www.sunburst-traders.com /Hyperthr.htm (2864 words)

	Hyperthermia - hyperthermia
		Hyperthermia, also known as heat stroke or sunstroke, is an acute condition resulting from the body producing or absorbing more heat than it can dissipate, usually due to excessive exposure to heat.
		Signs include increasing duration of exercise induced hyperthermia body temperature (hyperpyrexia), dehydration (often with lack of sweating), seizures, collapse, and decreased consciousness which proceeds rapidly treatment of hyperthermia to multi-organ failure and death as the brain "cooks".
		Prepare to follow the instructions hyperthermia cancer treatment of the emergency operator as they may have to instruct you on how to do CPR if there is cardiac arrest.
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Diseases-Ho---Hy/Hyperthermia.html (1399 words)

	\|\| DukeMedNews \|\| New Breast Cancer Therapy at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Boosts Drugs' Effects, Dramatically ...
		The only clinical trial of its kind in the nation, Blackwell said it is the first to combine "hyperthermia" (heat therapy) together with chemotherapy and fat liposomes in patients with newly diagnosed, large and invasive breast tumors.
		While hyperthermia has long been known to boost the effects of radiation therapy, its ability to enhance a tumor's response to drugs encased in liposomes is just being explored in humans.
		After the fourth and final hyperthermia treatment, radiation oncologists measure the tumor shrinkage and recommend the least invasive type of surgery to remove their patients' tumors.
	www.dukemednews.org /news/article.php?id=5510 (1548 words)

	Loco-Regional Hyperthermia
		Hyperthermia is a non-invasive and particularly gentle method of treatment.
		In loco-regional hyperthermia, heat is focused directly on the organ or area affected by the tumor (as opposed to whole-body hyperthermia, in which the entire body is heated).
		The combined effect of both treatments often means that significantly lower doses of the chemotherapy substances are needed than when these are used alone, minimizing their normal side effects, such as hair loss and nausea.
	www.annieappleseedproject.org /lochyp.html (757 words)

	Hyperthermia - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Hyperthermia is an increase in body temperature in the context of an unchanged thermoregulatory point in the brain.
		Detailed information about the causes of Hyperthermia including medication causes and drug interaction causes can be found in our causes pages.
		With a diagnosis of Hyperthermia, it is also important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Hyperthermia.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /h/hyperthermia/intro.htm (333 words)

	Holistic Hyperthermia Alternative Cancer treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hyperthermia is, very simply, the application of concentrated therapeutic heat to treat cancer.
		A recent study comparing results from leading hyperthermia researchers showed that beneficial responses were obtained by only 33% of patients treated with radiation alone, compared to 67% when radiation therapy was combined with hyperthermia.
		Hyperthermia is an exellent alternative to the use of this addictive drugs.
	www.vci.org /hyperthe.htm (414 words)

	Hyperthermia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The therapeutic effects of Hyperthermia on the human body have been well- known since the 19th Century, mainly being indicated for inflammatory processes, usually accompanied by pain.
		Systems used to produce Hyperthermia dating back over a century were extremely varied.
		Attempts were made to increase the temperature at a deeper level using external heat sources (conduction), thus generating the serious risk of skin burns.
	www.indiba.es /eng/medicina/hipertermia.htm (479 words)

	Hyperthermia
		Hyperthermia is further demonstrating a role as a valuable companion therapy when chemotherapy drugs are injected into the blood in encapsulated form (liposomes)...
		Hyperthermia [heating tissue to higher than normal body temperatures] greater than or equal to 42 degrees C is tumoricidal in vitro and in many animal models.
		The hyperthermia complications were generally not severe and either healed readily or were excised at the time of surgical resection of the primary tumor.
	www.leiomyosarcoma.org.uk /hyperthermia.htm (5666 words)

	Malignant hyperthermia
		Malignant hyperthermia is an inherited disease that causes a rapid rise in body temperature (fever) and severe muscle contractions when the affected person undergoes general anesthesia.
		This condition is not the same as hyperthermia due to medical emergencies such as heat stroke.
		Malignant hyperthermia is often noted for the first time after a patient is given anesthetic drugs during a surgical procedure.
	www.pennhealth.com /ency/article/001315.htm (605 words)

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