Full Description
Hyperthennia is rapidly becaning the fourth IIDdality of cancer treatment, at least a useful adjuvant to radiation therapy, chEfiO- therapy or surgery; at best, a new therapeutic fonn that, properly used, may open new horizons in the fight against this dreadful disease. The staging is still primitive. The devices used are after laboratory irrprovisations, and lack the precision and definition of treatment fields that will allow mass use of the m:Xiality. Clinical practices are limited to the procedural evaluations of a few pioneer groups, and basic understanding of its mechanism of action, although progressing by leaps and bounds, is still short of perfection. The challenge and the pranise are there and because of this, p engineers, physicists, biologists, physiologists and clinicians fran different specialties have a basic need for interaction, both in tenus of exchange of scientific infonnation and peer review of results and clinical trials. To satisfy this need, to act as a clearinghouse of knowledge and a fonnn for discussion, the North Alrerican Hyperthennia Group (NAHG) has been fonned. The!reeting in Detroit in August 1981 represents the first gathering of the group, to be followed by a second in Salt Lake City in April 1982.
Contents
Identification of Viable Regions in "in vitro" Spheroidal Tumors: A Mathematical Investigation.- Hyperthermia for Malignant Disease — A History of Medicine Note — The Work of Georges Lakhovsky.- Sequential Regional Hyperthermia: A Possible Answer for the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer.- Effects of Hyperthermia and Hyperglycemia on the Metastases Formation and on Survival of Rat Bearing W256 Carcinosarcoma.- Computer Controlled Hyperthermia Unit for Cancer Therapy.- Impact of Localized Microwave Hyperthermia on the Oxygenation Status of Malignant Tumors.- Cardiovascular and Oxygenation Changes During Whole Body Hyperthermia.- Recent Trends in the Cancer Multistep Therapy Concept.- Results of a Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Fractionated Hyperthermia in Combination with Low Dose Ionizing Radiation.- Adjuvant Hyperthermia in the Irradiation of Metastatic Tumor Masses Utilizing 2450 MHz Microwaves.- Further Studies on the Nature of the Biphasic Radiation Survival Response of Chinese Hamster Cells V-79-753B to Molecular Oxygen.- Oxygen Effects in Radiobiology.- Local Ionizing Radiation With and Without Microwave Induced Hyperthermia in Superficial Malignant Tumors in Brain.- Oxygen, Hydrogen Donors and Radiation Response.- Differential Response to Heat of Metastatic and Non-metastatic Rat Mammary Tumors.- Computer Modeling of Tumor Hyperthermia (A Dynamic Lumpted Parameter Model).
