ABSTRACT
In traditional Chinese medicine, hyperthermia is a branch of external therapy of Chinese medicines, which includes stone needle, burning acupuncture, medical fumigation, medicated bath, hot wax therapy, and moxibustion. The Society for German Pediatric Oncology and Hematology carried out multicenter clinical research on 34 patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas and Ewing tumors. Whole-body hyperthermia is a therapy that adopts the biophysics method to raise the body temperature uniformly, using the heat effect to kill cancer cells and to restrict and prevent cancer recurrence and metastasis. The combination of hyperthermia with radiation therapy was more effective than any therapy alone in improving the radiation susceptibility of tumors. Local or regional hyperthermia method is based on hyperthermia technologies such as ultrasonic wave, microwave, radio-frequency, endogenetic field, and thermal perfusion. The basic physical quantities reflecting the heat effect of cancer hyperthermia are heat and time and those reflecting the thermal-dose biological effect are temperature and time.
