Abstract
Successful cancer therapy must selectively destroy tumor tissue while sparing the host's normal tissues. Local heat treatment can have such a selective effect because abnormalities in tumor blood vessels supply less oxygen to heat-stressed tumor cells and are less efficient in cooling tumor tissue by blood perfusion.
Keywords
cancer, treatment of; heat therapy; hydralazine; hyperthermia; vasodilators; tumors
Date of this Version
1982
Recommended Citation
Babbs, Charles F., "Biology of local heat therapy for cancer" (1982). Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 124.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/bmepubs/124
Comments
This is the author accepted manuscript of Babbs C.F., Biology of local heat therapy for cancer, Medical Instrumentation 16, 23-26, 1982. Copyright Elsevier, it is made available here CC-BY-NC-ND, and the version of record is available through the publisher http://www.sciencedirect.com/