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The entire body including blood is heated for approximately two hours. George Klinik for hyperthermia in Germany is using it to kill Lyme disease bacteria that spread throughout the whole body. Moderate hyperthermia treatments usually maintain the temperature for approximately an hour. Radiosensitivity may be achieved with hyperthermia, and using heat with every radiation treatment may drive the treatment schedule.

Japanese researchers treated people with 'cycles' up to four times a week apart. Some even suggest maximum treatment schedule of twice a week. After being heated, cells develop resistance to heat, which persists for about three days and reduces the likelihood that they will die from direct effects of the heat. The schedule for treatments has varied between study centers. Localized hyperthermia treatment is a well-established cancer treatment method with a simple basic principle: If a temperature elevation to 40 ☌ (104 ☏) can be maintained for one hour within a cancer tumor, the cancer cells will be destroyed. Research has shown that hyperthermia is able to damage and kill cancer cells. Techniques include infrared hyperthermia domes which include the whole body or the body apart from the head, putting the patient in a very hot room/chamber, or wrapping the patient in hot, wet blankets or a water tubing suit. It is typically used to treat metastatic cancer (cancer that spread to many parts of the body). Whole-body hyperthermia heats the entire body to temperatures of about 39 to 43 ☌ (102 to 109 ☏), with some advocating even higher temperatures.Hot chemotherapy drugs are pumped directly into the peritoneal cavity to kill the cancer cells. One specialized type of this approach is continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion (CHPP), which is used to treat difficult cancers within the peritoneal cavity (the abdomen), including primary peritoneal mesothelioma and stomach cancer. Normally, chemotherapy drugs are infused at the same time. In blood perfusion, the patient's blood is removed from the body, heated up, and returned to blood vessels that lead directly through the desired body part. This may use the same techniques as local hyperthermia treatment, or it may rely on blood perfusion. Usually, the goal is to weaken cancer cells so that they are more likely to be killed by radiation and chemotherapeutic medications. Regional hyperthermia heats a larger part of the body, such as an entire organ or limb.It should not be confused with ablation of small tumors, where higher temperatures (>55 ☌) are applied with an aim to kill the tumor cells.

Depending on the location of the tumor, the heat may be applied to the surface of the body (superficial hyperthermia), inside normal body cavities (intraluminal hyperthermia), or deep in tissue through the use of needles or probes (interstitial hyperthermia). The heat may be created with microwave, radiofrequency, ultrasound energy or using magnetic hyperthermia (also known as magnetic fluid hyperthermia) ). In some instances, the goal is to kill the tumor by heating it, without damaging anything else.

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Local hyperthermia heats a very small area and is typically used for cancers near or on the skin or near natural openings in the body (e.g., the mouth).

Patient is undergoing local hyperthermia treatment for head and neck cancer.