Oncothermia Journal Volume 8

Oncothermia is a highly personalized treatment modality. It is not a “gold standard” yet, but it is on the way to reach its position as a “fourth column” among the main oncotherapy modalities. It has wide-range applicability for every solid tumors in all possible localizations, irrespective its primary or metastatic form. It could be applied complementary to all the known oncotherapy methods. It is applicable in higher lines of the therapy protocols, even in the refractory and relapsed cases as well.

In order to provide a comprehensive  insight into the indications under which patients are being treated with oncothermia we would like to present a few representative cases. Some of the cases are  very new, some of them were treated over a 5-year period, used for follow-up cases and other  possibilities. These old treatments are new results for the follow-up, which is the critical issue  for the feasibility of future prospective trials.  

Oncothermia has a long-time history with large number of documented case reports and clinical trials [1]. During more than 20 years 43 studies were performed involving more than 2000 patients all together from 14 clinics in 4 countries (see Table 1.) Details of the clinical effects is summarized in the publications as well as in the specialized monograph [1].