The Cure for Cancer???

During recent studies, scientist have found that heat therapy combined with chemotherapy may help cure and keep cancer away from patients. People who endure chemotherapy have not found these results as often. Some scientist think that if the chemotherapy dosage is cut in half to use more heat therapy, that that would be better for the cancer treatments.

In Germany, they have started using heat therapy more and made the amount being bought go up by 120%. With the heat therapy, the patients does not have the strong effects of chemotherapy. If more research is done, this may be a great alternative for chemotherapy. Patients that have the cancer heat treatments have a higher survival rate then those who just endure chemotherapy. Why? Researchers at John Hopkins University say the cancers cells are very sensitive to body heat. The heat can kill or make the cells more sensitive which may make the chemotherapy work better, and have results, such as curing the cancer faster, and making sure it never comes back to the same patient.

"Almost three years after starting treatment, they were 42% less likely to experience a recurrence of their cancer at the same site or to die than those who were getting chemotherapy alone," said Rolf Issels, a professor of medical oncology at the University of Munich in Germany. Specifically, it has been found that targeted heat has helped with breast cancer and cervical cancer. If in fact this becomes the alternative treatment for cancer, this will help over 10,000,000 cancer patients. Though this would be a medical revolution, many test still have to be done before this cure can be used throughout the world.
Raina, Sami, and Peik

Heat Treatment 2

View more documents from Student Wilsonsbiologylab.