Dr. Sennewald Medizintechnik GmbH

Cervical carcinoma

Martine Franckena from the Erasmus Medical Center at the University of Rotterdam published a study, which appeared in Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Mar 15;(4), in which patients with cervical carcinoma who were treated with or without hyperthermia were observed over a period of twelve years. The study showed that only 20% of those who had received radiation therapy alone survived; however, 37% of the women who received hyperthermia combined with radiation therapy were still alive. This highly significant result showed for the first time that the advantage of hyperthermia was not limited to a short period of time, but rather had long-term effectiveness.