HOW HYPERTHERMIA CAN HELP WITH CANCER

Hyperthermia is a less-known treatment therapy with stubborn cancer tumors. It essentially replicates a localized, regional, or whole-body fever to kill cancer cells. Let us delve deeper into what this cancer treatment is all about, how it works, and what is its efficacy.

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What is Hyperthermia for Cancer Treatment? 

Hyperthermia is basically inducing a higher than normal body temperature. High body temperatures are usually triggered by our immune function trying to fend off illnesses.

But hyperthermia, in the context of cancer treatment, refers to a type of medical treatment in which the use of intense heat is applied for cancerous cells that typically cannot be removed with surgery and chemotherapy treatments. This process has been found to relieve pain from metastatic cancers, like bone cancer; reduce swelling due to tumors; shrink some types of skin lesions including Kaposi’s sarcoma on mucosal surfaces (e.g., mouth); halt growth and spread of malignant tumor cells in lab studies using animal models – all without damaging healthy tissue surrounding them!

What is Treatment Sequence for Hyperthermia for Cancer? 

When cells in the body are exposed to higher than normal temperatures, changes take place inside the cells. In a process called Thermal Ablation, very high temperatures can kill cancer cells outright – which is the basic principle behind inducing hyperthermia in the body.

Hypothermia treatment can be targeted;

1. Locally
2. Regionally
3. For Whole-Body 

Radiofrequency Ablation (Local Hyperthermia Treatment) 

The RFA treatment is a form of radiation therapy that uses high-energy radio waves to destroy cancer cells. Medical practitioners easily and painlessly insert the probe into an affected area, usually about 10-30 minutes long.

These currents create very high heat in order to kill local cancer cells that shrink over time as it becomes scar tissue.

Regional Hyperthermia 

This treatment uses devices that are placed on the surface of the organ or body cavity and produce high energy waves directed at a certain area. These devices give off radiofrequency or microwave energy to heat the area being treated.

Whole Body Hyperthermia 

In whole-body Hyperthermia treatment, the patient’s body temperature may be raised as if they had a fever. Hence, it is also called fever-range whole-body hyperthermia. Studies suggest that this triggers certain immune cells to become more active for the next few hours and raises the levels of cancer cell-killing compounds in the blood.

Combine hyperthermia with other natural cancer treatments and home remedies, and you’ll fight off this disease effectively. Since hyperthermia is all about using the body’s natural temperature regulation to work for it, rather than against it.

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Source: https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/treatment-types/hyperthermia.html