Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment Questions and Answers

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Hyperthermia or heat treatment was used since ancient times by Greeks and other cultures. They empirically noticed and understood that many health conditions were alleviated when a sick person was exposed to fever like high temperatures.

Greek use to submerge patients in hot sand to raise body temperature. Saunas are well know for hundred of years in Finland and ancient cultures of northern Europe. Those old methods to induce high temperature to the human body are in a way the predecessors of modern Hyperthermia.

The following three paragraphs were taken from an article published on March 06, 2006, by Judy Foreman

“The idea of using heat to treat cancer started more than 100 years ago when an American surgeon, Dr.

William B. Cooley, noticed that some cancer patients who also had high fevers from bacterial infections had
their tumors shrink. He began inducing fevers on purpose by infecting his cancer patients with bacteria.

In the last few years, though, new, better-designed studies ”have rekindled interest” in the idea, said Harris. Insurers are now paying more for the treatment, and new instruments can deliver microwaves precisely, even to tumors deep in the body. The National Cancer Institute recently gave $19 million to Duke to continue all of its hyperthermia research.

Among the studies turning the tide for hyperthermia is one, of 109 patients, published last year by Dr. Ellen L. Jones, a Duke radiation oncologist. Writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, her team reported that compared with patients getting radiation but not hyperthermia, those who got both had a significantly reduced risk of recurrence in patients with ‘’superficial” tumors, chiefly breast cancers that had spread to the chest wall.

”I really trust the data coming out of this Duke group” because the team was so meticulous, said Harris, who
was not involved in the study.”

Dr. James I. Bicher has been clinically using Hyperthermia in combination with low dose radiation for over 30 years! What Duke University discovered three years ago, was employes by Dr James Bicher to treat and cure cancer patients at the Valley Cancer Institute for over three decades!