Hyperthermia means a condition of the body where it produces or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate. Cancer cells are more heat-sensitive than healthy cells and their structure reacts differently to overheating. The therapy derived from hyperthermia has been further developed and is in use today as OncoTherapy, a therapy option which is highly sophisticated and extremely effective.

History of Hyperthermia

The healing effect of heat treatment was already mentioned in the advanced cultures of the old Egypt (2400 B.C.), but only the medical professionals of the Greek Antique used this therapeutic approach ... (more)

Cancer Treatment

In 1910 the possibility of overheating in order to increase the radiation effect on malicious tumors was described for the first time... (more)

Surface Hyperthermia

A surface hyperthermia with water-cooled infrared radiation is used to heal skin tumors, those at the surface or tightly below... (more)

Regional Deep Hyperthermia

The implementation of local deep hyperthermia associated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy may increase the chance to be cured from cancer significantly... (more)

Whole Body Hyperthermia

Since many years we accomplish the moderate whole body hyperthermia in our practice. This therapy results in an increase of temperatures up to 39.8° C in the core of the body... (more)

Prostate Hyperthermia

Greek doctors in the 5th Century BC already used heat and fever treatments to cure various disease states long before the modern medicine had profound knowledge about the causes and the treatment...(more)