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Title Hyperthermia in cancer treatment : a primer / [edited by] Gian Franco Baronzio, E. Dieter Hager
Published Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience ; New York : Springer Science+Business Media, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations
Series Medical intelligence unit
Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Contents Physical Aspects of Hyperthermia -- Hyperthermia, Physics, Vector Potential, Electromagnetic Heating -- Thennometry -- Physical Background and Technical Realizations of Hyperthermia -- Thermotherapy and Nanomedicine -- Biological Aspects of Hyperthermia -- Influence of Tumor Microenvironment on Thermoresponse -- Hyperthermia and Angiogenesis -- Vascular Meets of Localized Hyperthermia -- On the Biochemical Basis of Tumour Damage by Hypothermia -- Results of Hyperthermia Alone or with Radiation Therapy and/or Chemotherapy -- Thermo-Chemo-Radiotherapy Association -- A Step Deep on Hyperthermia, Hypoxia and Chemotherapy Interactions -- Clinical Aspects of Hyperthermia -- Locoregional Hyperthermia -- Hyperthermia and Radiotherapy in the Management of Prostate Cancer -- Tumor Ablation Using Radiofrequency Energy -- Cytoreduction, Peritonectomy and Hyperthermic Antiblastic Peritoneal Perfiision for the Treatment of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis -- Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Intracavitary Hyperthennic Perfusion -- Whole Body Hypothermia at 43.5-44°C -- Extreme Whole-Body Hyperthermia with Water-Filtered Infrared-A Radiation -- Effects of Local and Whole Body Hyperthermia on Immunity -- Fever, Pyrogens and Cancer -- Future Perspectives of Interstitial and Perfusional Hyperthermia
Summary Following an introductory overview, this work describes the biological reasons for associating hyperthermia with radiation and chemotherapy and the biological and clinical effects of hyperthermia on cancerous and normal tissues. Its chapters are arranged in 3 parts: physical and methodological studies, biologic principles, and clinical studies
Analysis neoplasms
radiotherapie
radiotherapy
biomedische wetenschappen
biomedicine
oncologie
oncology
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cancer -- Thermotherapy.
Heat -- Physiological effect.
Thermotherapy.
Neoplasms -- therapy
Heat-Shock Response
Hyperthermia, Induced
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
Cancer -- Thermotherapy.
Heat -- Physiological effect.
Hyperthermie.
Kanker.
Tumoren.
Therapieën.
Neoplasms -- therapy.
Hyperthermia, Induced.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Thermotherapy
Cancer -- Thermotherapy
Heat -- Physiological effect
Hyperthermie.
Kanker.
Tumoren.
Therapieën.
Form Electronic book
Author Baronzio, Gian Franco.
Hager, E. Dieter.
LC no. 2007270938
ISBN 9780387334417
0387334416
0387334408
9780387334400