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- Title
HIPERTERMIJA IN OBSEVANJE.
- Authors
Golob, Jana
- Abstract
Cancer is a class of diseases, which are characterized by uncontrolled cell division and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues either to directly grow in neighboring tissue (invasion), or the migration of cancer cells to distant site (metastasis). Some types of cancer can be treated also with hyperthermia. The subject of research was the review of professional domestic and foreign literature in the field of oncology and the treatment cancer with hyperthermia. Heat-shock proteins in the plasma temporarily protect cell against thermal damage again. By the same temperature in the second repetition of thermoradiotherapy we succeed not duplicate the thermal damage, as we first reaction, because there is a temporary resistance to the temperature of cells, called thermotolerance. The original value of clinical research of thermoradioteraphy is double. It was found that regardless of the mode of heating, a good effect can already provide a unique hyperthermia (HT). The sequence of the two therapies, irradiation and overheating, and the amount of direct dose irradiation decisive influence on the success of combination therapy. However, in clinical conditions is thermoradioteraphy less effective in large dimension tumors. This fact partly reduces the value of the use of HT as a primary form of treatment in the very large and in operabile tumors. It also demonstrated the effectiveness of hyperthermia in combination with radiation or chemotherapy HT helps to alleviate the pain with palliative treatment. According to the research results, which were made and all the results obtained, the enforcement of hyperthermia, as a separate method of treatment is not possible.
- Subjects
CANCER; CELLS; RADIATION; METASTASIS; CANCER invasiveness; ONCOLOGY; FEVER therapy; THERMOTHERAPY
- Publication
Bulletin: Newsletter of the Society of Radiographers of Slovenia & the Chamber of Radiographers of Slovenia, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0718-5551
- Publication type
Article