Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Hyperthermia Breast Cancer Treatment Alternative

Hyperthermia Breast Cancer Treatment Alternative

Hyperthermia is a very effective breast cancer treatment approved in 1984 by the FDA to be used with radiation therapy.

Clinical practice of Hyperthermia plus radiation therapy cancer treatment in the US, shows a success rate of about 81% for breast cancer; 18% had a partial response, meaning the cancerous tumor was reduced in size but not completely eradicated. The survival rate of those breast cancer patients in 5 years, was about 79%. The study was done in a 5 years period of follow up.

Features Advantages And Benefits of Hyperthermia

Benefits (to the patients)

  • Low or no side effects from the Hyperthermia part of the treatment.
  • Hyperthermia does not make you sick during the course of the treatment.
  • When your treatment is finished, you leave our clinic walking on your own, healthy, and happy!
  • Great pain reduction, relieving pain and reducing the need for narcotics without the addictive effects of these drugs.
  • You do not have to recover from the severe side effects that conventional, standard care cancer therapies/treatment have, or recover from surgeries.
  • Low Radiation side effects, when a low-fractionated-dose of Radiation is used, because the body have the ability to heal it self. (Cancer treatment support with complementary therapies is strongly advised).
  • When low-dose-radiation allows for the body to heal from its mild side effects, quicker and easier!
  • Preserves non-affected body areas surrounding the tumor.
  • No physical or mental stress involved before, during and after the treatment.
  • Relaxing and comfortable treatment.
  • Preserves affected treated areas.
  • Hyperthermia, a heat treatment at about 42.5 Celsius degrees or 108 Fahrenheit, is been proved to increase the immune system response, as an added convenience.
  • Improves immune system response.
  • Treatment with curative intent.
  • Having your Hyperthermia treatment at Cancer Institute, as patients say:
    "is like having a healing vacation"
    , and who do not need one!
  • Other patients said: "..after treatment, you can relax the rest of the day, go to the beach, get with friends, have fun, and go party!"
  • You can enjoy life and do the things you normally do during the treatment at an Hyperthermia clinic.
  • You have the whole day for your self, except for the about 75 to 90 minutes in the clinic for your daily treatment.

Features (what it is)

  • No special preparation needed as oppose of getting in shape, strong and fit before a debilitating surgery, chemotherapy or high-dose of radiation therapy.
  • Gentle Heat Treatment. A patient said: "is like having a sun tan at the beach!"
  • Very Low Radiation Dos, when this approach is used (James Bicher MD @ Bicher Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA, US).

  • Hyperthermia plus radiation is a very easy cancer treatment to apply and to set up. There are no surgical procedures done, with the exemption of the insertion of a thin-needle-like temperature sensor into the cancerous tumor to be treated.
  • Very short time set up. It usually takes about 5 to a maximum of 10 min (in rare occasions).
  • Daily hour and 15 min treatment duration for both Hy6perthermia and (low-dose) radiation therapy: 45 to 60 minute of Hyperthermia and 15 to 20 minutes of radiotherapy.
  • Not invasive procedure with the exemption  of the needle-like temperature sensor into the tumor.
  • Minimum compromise of healthy body areas around the tumor with the use of moderns conformal radiation therapy techniques, like IMRT and IGRT.

  • No surgery, no toxic chemotherapy, or debilitating high dose radiation.
  • Reiki energy healing is another way to help on breast cancer treatments
Advantages (what it does)