Local Hyperthermia
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Watch a medical animation illustrating how local hyperthermia uses heat to damage cancer cells, making the cells more sensitive to other cancer treatments.
We use innovative methods, such as local hyperthermia, to shrink tumors by using heat to damage proteins and structures within cancer cells.
Local hyperthermia (sometimes called superficial hyperthermia) exposes a small area, such as a tumor, to high temperatures.
Hyperthermia can be used with radiation therapy, chemotherapy and biotherapy/immunotherapy.How Does Local Hyperthermia Work?
Using MRI guidance, we first locate the tumor that will be treated. The tumor is then heated externally or internally:
- External – The area may be heated externally with high-frequency energy waves aimed at a tumor from a device outside the body.
- Internal – Probes or antennas are placed inside the tumor to deliver energy and to heat the area directly. Several types of sterile probes may be used. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a type of internal hyperthermia that uses high-frequency energy to heat and destroy cancer cells.
During hyperthermia, we monitor the temperature of the tumor with MRI guidance and adjust it accordingly.
Local hyperthermia offers a promising treatment option for patients with advanced or recurrent cancer.
Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- Amifostine
- Brachytherapy (see High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy )
- BrainLAB Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™/GPS for the Body®
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Contura™ Multi-Lumen Balloon
- CyberKnife® VSI™ Robotic Radiosurgery System
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- Intraoperative Ultrasound
- Large Bore CT/RT with Simulation
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radiation Therapy
- Radioactive Protectants
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Radiology Information System: All digital, paperless environment and voice recognition diction
- Radiosurgery
- RapidArc®
- Respiratory Gating
- Robotic Radiosurgery (see CyberKnife® VSI™ Robotic Radiosurgery System)
- Siemens / GE Multi-Modality Workstation
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) / Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery in conjunction with Calypso®
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
- Varian Linear Accelerator with SRS, Respiratory Gating, RapidArc® and SBRT
- Varian Linear Accelerator iX with RapidArc®
- Varian Linear Accelerator Trilogy™ with RapidArc®
- Varian® Linear Accelerator TrueBeam®
