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.

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/

Keywords

cancer, treatment of; heat therapy; hydralazine; hyperthermia; vasodilators; tumors

Date of this Version

1982

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