Re: Microwave Therapy ... what do you reckon Steph and others?

From: Matti Narkia (mnng1_REMOVE_THIS_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:59:47 +0300

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:13:31 -0400 in article <412CC8BA.ABC1897C@execulink.com>
J <day@example.net> wrote:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3m5bv
>The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is currently sponsoring three phase II
>clinical trials using whole-body heat therapy in combination with chemotherapy
>drugs in treating patients with advanced melanoma, advanced sarcoma, and
>metastatic and recurring lymphoma."
>
>http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00003135
>(don't know where the other 2 are) but this one seems to say Phase II
>http://cancer.duke.edu/hyperthermia/research.asp
>
>http://www.vci.org/inflamma.htm
>These preliminary results show that thermoradiotherapy should be considered as
>a treatment modality for inflammatory breast cancer."
>
Whole body hyperthermia is very tough (at least psychologically) for the
patient even without chemotherapy, if temperatures approaching or exceeding
40 degrees Celcius are aimed at. I know, I've been there :-). Therefore the
clinics, where whole body hyperthermia treatments have been experimentally
done with temperatures like 41-42 degrees Celcius, often in combination with
chemotherapy, have frequently used general anesthesia. I didn't see general
anesthesia mentioned on the above pages. Perhaps they don't aim at so high
temperatures that they would require general anesthesia? 

-- 
Matti Narkia

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