What Is Thermotherapy?

Hyperthermia, also known as fumigation, is a branch of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine thermal therapy is also called traditional Chinese medicine cooking therapy, far-infrared physical hyperthermia, traditional Chinese medicine steam bath therapy, drug penetration therapy, heat mist therapy, etc. A study published by German medical experts on September 22, 2009 showed that the combination of hyperthermia and chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer patients is more effective than chemotherapy alone and has a longer tumor-free period.

Hyperthermia

Hyperthermia, also known as fumigation, is a branch of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine thermal therapy is also called traditional Chinese medicine cooking therapy, far-infrared physical hyperthermia, traditional Chinese medicine steam bath therapy, drug penetration therapy, heat mist therapy, etc. A study published by German medical experts on September 22, 2009 showed that the combination of hyperthermia and chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer patients is more effective than chemotherapy alone and has a longer tumor-free period.

Chinese name

Hyperthermia

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Fumigation

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German medical scientist: hyperthermia plus chemotherapy for cancer

The term Hyperthermia is derived from the Greek language and meant "high fever" or "overheating." Hyperthermia, also known as fumigation,

Humans have long recognized the therapeutic effect of hyperthermia on diseases. Hyperthermia dates back to 5000 BC.

In ancient times, ancient Greece, Egypt, China, and Japan have recorded the use of hot baths to treat various diseases. In modern times, before the invention of antibiotics, hyperthermia was a common method for treating various infectious diseases. Austrian doctor Jauregg intentionally vaccinates some patients with malaria patients' blood, causing malaria infections, inducing high fever for treatment

High temperature has also been observed in a number of clinical practices.

The written records of treating diseases with Chinese medicine decoction include:

"Book of Rites": If you have sores on your head, bathe your ulcers.

"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" also said: its evil people, stains think sweat, evil can be resolved with sweat.

"Fifty-two Diseases" was unearthed at Ma Wangdui Han Tomb, and it was explicitly proposed to use Chinese medicine to cook hot medicine steam fumigation to treat diseases, including fumigation and bathing, such as Luo Ruan smoked for hemorrhoids; leek and wine boiled for fumigation Illness, etc.

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The application methods of hyperthermia are divided into

The working principle of the hyperthermia instrument is to use high-power ultrasound to emit in vitro, focus in vivo, and directly act on cancer tissues, forming a high temperature of 70 to 100 degrees Celsius in the focus area, so that cancer cells are killed in a very short time. The combined effect of hyperthermia "surgery" and drugs, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy will be better, and side effects will be greatly reduced. Combined with hyperthermia, chemotherapy can be reduced by 1/3. Experiments have shown that patients' immune and disease resistance have improved significantly after hyperthermia. In order to ensure the quality, the hospitals that purchase hyperthermia today must send doctors for qualification training, and the medical records of each operation must be thoroughly recorded at the hyperthermia production company.

Hyperthermia is to raise the patient's body temperature to 40 ° C to 42 ° C, and artificially create a "fever" environment for the human body. In this temperature environment, cancer cells that are afraid of "hotness" will be directly killed by high fever. Metastatic and spreading cancer cells that are not completely removed due to conventional methods such as surgery, or that cannot be found by the existing technology, are still unavoidably traced to death by whole body hyperthermia combined with adjuvant chemotherapy, although they are sneaky hidden after leaking. Second, whole body hyperthermia can increase the concentration of chemotherapeutic drugs in tumor tissues to enhance

The key to whole body heating is to control the body temperature after heating within the safe and effective range of 40.0 42.0 , otherwise it will happen

Contraindications to hyperthermia

1. Patients with severe heart disease and those with cardiac pacemakers are disabled;

2. Banned in patients with tumor tuberculosis;

3 Those with bleeding tendency are prohibited;

4 Menstrual women forbidden lower abdominal hyperthermia;

5. Metal objects implanted in the body, such as abdominal plates and steel nails, are forbidden to bone graft;

6. Pregnant woman

7. Intracranial space occupying lesions are disabled;

8. All patients with leukemia are disabled.

9. High fever.

Use hyperthermia with caution

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Hyperthermia equipment, all used by the hospital for Chinese herbal medicine

Tumor hyperthermia is defined as: increasing the temperature of the whole body and / or tumor tissue (local) by various methods, and using heat and its secondary effects to treat malignant tumors. Tumor hyperthermia, which is based on modern science, became active in the early 1960s and has made many breakthroughs. Because during this period, scientists began to use various experimental models of cancer cells and animal tumors to study the principles and methods of hyperthermia to treat tumors.

Hyperthermia

Establish the cellular and molecular biological basis for modern tumor hyperthermia; meanwhile, find the best treatment conditions and treatment plans through animal and clinical experiments. A large number of in vitro experiments and clinical data show that although tumor hyperthermia cannot replace surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy as an independent tumor treatment program, it has obvious synergistic and complementary effects on tumor treatment methods such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. Because of this, tumor hyperthermia has developed rapidly in recent years, and has become another important tumor treatment method after surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and biological treatment.

Tumor hyperthermia can be divided into whole body hyperthermia, regional hyperthermia and local hyperthermia. The last two methods of heating the body are regional (the heating range accounts for 1 / 3-1 / 4 of the body's volume) or local. The advantage is that the local temperature of the tumor tissue can reach more than 42.5 ° C, which can kill cancer cells in a relatively short time. The limitation is that they are not systemic treatments, and can not be implemented for distant metastatic tumors; moreover, local hyperthermia is more suitable for the treatment of superficial and smaller tumors.

Recognizing that malignant tumors are a potential systemic disease, local or regional hyperthermia can do nothing for deep tumors and tumors or metastases in the subclinical stage. People have been exploring safe and reliable tumor whole body hyperthermia programs. Due to biological methods (such as Coley toxin)

Hyperthermia equipment

At the time of temperature, the accuracy of temperature control and the repeatability of treatment are poor. For decades, people have continuously experimented with various biophysical methods to raise the temperature of the human body. Since the 1980s, the United States and some European countries have developed experimental whole-body hyperthermia machines or whole-body hyperthermia devices with relatively low toxicity and reliable performance, making tumor whole-body hyperthermia in many countries (such as the United States, Germany, Japan, Mexico, etc. Country) was applied and achieved good results.

With the deepening of the research on the mechanism of hyperthermia treatment of tumors, people can gradually understand the effects of thermal effects on the structure, function and growth metabolism of cancer cells from the molecular biology and gene level, so as to make a scientific study on the phenomenon of thermal effects on tumors. Explanation. Coupled with the development trend of multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment in the field of tumor therapy, oncologists have begun to look at the development and prospects of tumor hyperthermia with a new perspective.