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Hyperthermia for Carcinoma of the Prostate

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Carcinoma of the Prostate

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Radiat Oncol))

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Abstract

More than 85 years have elapsed since, in 1910, the German physician Carl Muller first described the potential for using hyperthermia (HT) as a new adjuvant to radiotherapy (RT) in the management of patients with advanced malignant neoplasms. In empiric studies of the first 100 patients with superficial tumors, Muller used high-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by a medical diathermy apparatus (Muller 1912). Despite poor control of his HT parameters during these early clinical trials, a significant improvement of the expected radiation effect in HT-treated patients was noted.

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  1. Center for Radiobiology and Radiation Safety, Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 128 Szaserow, 00-909, Warsaw, Poland

    S. Szmigielski MD, PhD (Professor of Pathophysiolog)

  2. Department of Urology, uL. Listopada 15-10, Warsaw, 03446, Poland

    B. Stawarz MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman)

  3. Department of Urology, St. Pieter’s Hospital, Catholic University of Leuven, Brusselsestraat 69, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    H. Goethuys MD (Senior Resident), L. Baert MD (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor) & H. Van Poppel MD, PhD (Professor)

  4. Department of Urology and Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    L. Baert MD (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor)

  5. Center for Radiobiology and Radiation Safety, Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 128 Szaserow, 00-909, Warsaw, Poland

    H. Zielinski MD, PhD & N. Piotrkowicz MD, PhD

  6. Radiation Oncology Memorial Medical Center, University of Southern California School of Medicine and Medical Director, Long Beach, CA, 90801, USA

    A. M. Nissar Syed MD (Clinical Professor of Radiation Oncology)

  7. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Z. Petrovich MD (Professor of Radiation Oncology and Urology, Chairman)

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Szmigielski, S. et al. (1996). Hyperthermia for Carcinoma of the Prostate. In: Petrovich, Z., Baert, L., Brady, L.W. (eds) Carcinoma of the Prostate. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60956-5_23

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