Who should consider a hyperthermia treatment?
The hyperthermia is not used as a single therapy. Normally it is combined either with chemotherapy or with radiotherapy (or with both). The local or regional hyperthermia is useful for extended (advanced) tumors, which can not be treated sufficiently by an operation or by radiotherapy alone. Above all, local recurrences (re-growing tumors) belong to this category. Distant metastases (migration of the tumor into the whole body) can also be treated by applying whole-body hyperthermia (together with chemotherapy). Also in this context hyperthermia is only used, if the other (conventional) therapy methods have turned out to be insufficient. A whole-body hyperthermia is applied especially, if the tumor has been treated with several chemotherapy sessions without any positive result and if the tumor has already relapsed several times or has not well responded. On the other hand, hyperthermia normally is not used, if there exists a standard therapy treatment for the tumor disease in question w
