The rediscovered hyperthermia therapy of cancer

In the treatment of prostate cancer, a method is very successful, the so-called turf (Transurethral radio frequency therapy). For the treatment of cancer hyperthermia, uses a specific device, additional heat in an electric field of short radio waves is built.Short radio waves have the advantage to be less harmful to the healthy tissue that the previous used microwave ovens. Also short radio waves have a higher range.From hyperthermia inserts a catheter through the urethra, which carries a probe on. This probe sends short radio waves through the prostate tissue. The receivers are fixed to the thighs. Because of radiowaves which prostate tissue is heated, the spacecraft itself remains cold, avoiding injury to urethra.

Effect of hyperthermiaBecause of cancer cells of the primitive blood supply (compared with normal cells) may bring forth evil heat. Cancer cells that causes congestion of heat, which leads to under the provision of oxide.This is a symptom of deficiency disorders of important metabolic processes for prolieferation and repairsystems cells precipitate. So dead cells cannot be replaced, the consequence is that the cancer will die. Hyperthermia can be combined with radiotherapy or chemicaltherapy. This combination has proven to be effective, because even after treatment with chemo or radiation cancer can recover and be resistant to radiation and cytostatic. Heat cancercells hyperthermia DNA will be severely damaged. Cancer has no chance to regenerate. The temperature of Transurethral hyperthermia is roughly 48A° C 52A° C/° F° f 118A to 126A. Hyperthermia therapy is an experimental cancertherapy.

History of hyperthermiaFirst cited was the heeling effect of the ancient Egyptians (2400 BC), but physicians of ancient Greece have this therapeutic approach applied and named: overheating (Greece: Hyperthermie).Through the centuries many illnesses were fought with generation of fever with the help of pyrogen. This encroachments into the body and bodyfunction can call active hyperthermia. The passive hyperthermia is increased using a device from bodytemperature out. A pioneer of modern "Fevertherapy" Julius Wagner von Jauregg is that observed in a patient with random "Erysipel", which gets the healing because of the plague. Later, he developed the fevertherapy employing blood infected with malaria, also called "Malariatherapy". Von Jauregg won the Nobel Prize in medicine for the treatment of lues using "fevertherapy". The procedure has lost its importance with the rise of antibioticaltherapy, but is now rediscovered therapy as a cancer therapy.

This article was written by ErOn UG in partnership with a cancer expert from Hanover, Germany.

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