Urgent - Please. Can anyone tell me more about a European cancer treatment where blood is heated to 104?
My brother has lung cancer. He had removal surgery a year and a half ago. The cancer then turned up in his lung. He's been through a course of I.V. chemo, then pills and has now had so much that his docs won't allow him to have any more for another year. His wife died a couple of years ago and he was left with their four small children to care for. He's looking for any feasible alternative treatments available. He heard recently from a friend that there is a treatment in Europe where a form of dialysis is performed and the blood is heated to such an extent that the cancer could possibly be killed during the process? He knows that whatever the procedure is, it's dangerous, but he has no other choice. He must stay alive for the kids if for nothing else. Can anyone offer any information? Thank you very much in advance.
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Perhaps you can try contacting Dr J. van der Zee, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hyperthermia Unit, Erasmus Medical CenterĂ¢€“Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-10-4391-498; Fax: +31-10-4391-022; E-mail: zee@hyph.azr.nl Here is the article he wrote about hyperthermia treatment of cancer. http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/13/8/1173 But from what I understand, heating of blood is good for treating leukemia type of cancer only. For solid tumors, the heating technique doesn't involve dialysis of blood. Here is an article about blood heating: http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/3/802
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There are ongoing clinical trials of hyperthermia combined with conventional treatment. Here are some reliable sources of information: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/hyperthermia http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_1_2x_Hyperthermia.asp
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