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- Title
Hyperthermia - a treatment method for cancer?
- Authors
Bleehen, Norman M.
- Abstract
The author reflects on the reliability on the application of hyperthermia, the treatment of cancer through raising the temperature to 40 to 45°C for a span of minutes or hours. Several studies that are presented that show the validity of raising temperature to treat cancer. In addition, he also presents the advantages and disadvantages of the method including the range of temperature measurement.
- Subjects
FEVER therapy; CANCER treatment; MEDICAL thermography; THERMOTHERAPY; BODY temperature; TEMPERATURE measurements
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1981, Vol 74, Issue 12, p865
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1177/014107688107401201