ABSTRACT
Cancer hyperthermia can increase the immunity of the body, kill cancer cells, activate cancer immunity through the expression of heat shock proteins outside the cell membranes, sensitize radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and reduce toxic and side effects caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This chapter focuses on the conventional cancer heating technology. Local hyperthermia means a heating method in which the heating range is limited to pathologic changes in local tissues without temperature rise of the whole body. Local or regional hyperthermia mainly adopts microwave, radio frequency, and ultrasonic equipment to heat cancer. Endoceliac chemohyperthermia refers to the method wherein the liquid with chemotherapeutic drugs is infused into the body cavity and kept for a certain amount of time using the heating equipment, aiming to cure cancer. Intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia, as a relatively developed method applied clinically, aims to heat the liquid with the chemotherapeutic drug, which is filled into the abdominal cavity and kept in constant temperature.
