For Personal Use. Only Reproduce with Permission from the Lancet Publishing Group. Review Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment Hyperthermia in Combined Treatment of Cancer
For Personal Use. Only Reproduce with Permission from the Lancet Publishing Group. Review Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment Hyperthermia in Combined Treatment of Cancer
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P. Wust;B. Hildebrandt;G. Sreenivasa;B. Rau;J. Gellermann;H. Riess;R. Felix;P. Schlag
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Hyperthermia, the procedure of raising the temperature of tumour-loaded tissue to 40–43°C, is applied as an adjunctive therapy with various established cancer treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The potential to control power distributions in vivo has been significantly improved lately by the development of planning systems and other modelling tools. This increased understanding has led to the design of multiantenna applicators (including their transforming networks) and implementation of systems for monitoring of E-fields (eg, electro-optical sensors) and temperature (particularly, on-line magnetic resonance tomography). Several phase III trials comparing radiotherapy alone or with hyperthermia have shown a beneficial effect of hyperthermia (with existing standard equipment) in terms of local control (eg, recurrent breast cancer and malignant melanoma) and survival (eg, head and neck lymph-node metastases, glioblastoma, cervical carcinoma). Therefore, further development of existing technology and elucidation of molecular mechanisms are justified. In recent molecular and biological investigations there have been novel applications such as gene therapy or immunotherapy (vaccination) with temperature acting as an enhancer, to trigger or to switch mechanisms on and off. However, for every particular temperature-dependent interaction exploited for clinical purposes, sophisticated control of temperature, spatially as well as temporally, in deep body regions will further improve the potential. Hyperthermia is a therapeutic procedure used to raise the temperature of a region of the body affected by cancer (figure 1). It is administered together with other cancer treatment modalities (multimodal oncological strategies). The temperature increase required can be achieved by various methods. Studies on cell cultures in vitro and on experimentally induced tumours in vivo in the early 1970s provided convincing justification for the clinical application of hyperthermia. The rationale is based on a direct cell-killing effect at temperatures above 41–42 °C. 1 However, the thermal dose–response relation varies among cell lines and depends, furthermore, on microenvironmental factors such as pH. 2 After a heat shock, all cell types show increased thermoresistance for 24–48 h (thermotolerance). The required temperatures derived from the preclinical data are not achieved under clinical conditions. Therefore, other mechanisms of heat may be relevant. A synergistic interaction between heat and radiation dose as well as various cytostatic treatments has been validated in preclinical studies. 3,4 This thermosensitisation is effective even below 41°C. Here, as found in preclinical experiments, the time between treatments and the sequence of operation are important. 5 For the combination of radiotherapy and hyperthermia, the effect is greatest for simultaneous …