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Dear Barbera:
The idea of heating tumors to kill them is not new. My wife received radio frequency ablation of tumors in her liver. This is a procedure where a probe is driven through the tumor and then heated to a high temperature with radio frequency waves. It literally "cooks" the tumor in place. In my wife's case this procedure was done 2and 1/2 years ago and her liver remains clean. The procedure has benefits over surgery because research has shown that when a tumor is excised surgically from a liver that growth hormones are released and often the tumor will return. This does not happen with ablation.
At the University of Pgh Medical Center they are currently experimenting with a way of using radio frequency waives to raise body temperature to a point that would kill all cancer cells in your body. This procedure was invented by a cancer patient familiar radio frequency waives. This fellow in conjunction with Dr. Geller at UPMC has developed three patented devices for this procedure and at this point it is in animal testing by Dr. Geller at UPMC. Funding for the project has been provided by the NCI.
Hope this would sound encouraging
Brian
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