500 kHz hyperthermia assisted HDR brachytherapy in the treatment of recurrent cervical and endometrial cancer in previously irradiated fields

Piotrkowicz, N.; Zieliński, J; Jońska, Joanna; Debicki, P.

doi:10.1016/s1507-1367(05)71085-3

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“…In fact, one of the main aims of the new radiotherapy techniques has been to reduce the radiation dose affecting adjacent healthy organs or tissues while keeping the therapeutic dose to the tumoral ones. 7 In recent years, new techniques of treatment using radiotherapy (IGRT, VMAT, etc.) 8,9 have paid special attention on this issue, allowing a much better tumor control with reduced harmful side effects caused by high doses on healthy tissues adjacent to the treated tumor regions.…”

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Magnetic nanoparticle-based hyperthermia for cancer treatment

Bañobre‐López

Teijeiro

Rivas

2013

Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy

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Nanotechnology involves the study of nature at a very small scale, searching new properties and applications. The development of this area of knowledge affects greatly both biotechnology and medicine disciplines. The use of materials at the nanoscale, in particular magnetic nanoparticles, is currently a prominent topic in healthcare and life science. Due to their size-tunable physical and chemical properties, magnetic nanoparticles have demonstrated a wide range of applications ranging from medical diagnosis to treatment. Combining a high saturation magnetization with a properly functionalized surface, magnetic nanoparticles are provided with enhanced functionality that allows them to selectively attach to target cells or tissues and play their therapeutic role in them. In particular, iron oxide nanoparticles are being actively investigated to achieve highly efficient carcinogenic cell destruction through magnetic hyperthermia treatments. Hyperthermia in different approaches has been used combined with radiotherapy during the last decades, however, serious harmful secondary effects have been found in healthy tissues to be associated with these treatments. In this framework, nanotechnology provides a novel and original solution with magnetic hyperthermia, which is based on the use of magnetic nanoparticles to remotely induce local heat when a radiofrequency magnetic field is applied, provoking a temperature increase in those tissues and organs where the tumoral cells are present. Therefore, one important factor that determines the efficiency of this technique is the ability of magnetic nanoparticles to be driven and accumulated in the desired area inside the body. With this aim, magnetic nanoparticles must be strategically surface functionalized to selectively target the injured cells and tissues.

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Magnetic nanoparticle-based hyperthermia for cancer treatment

Bañobre‐López

Teijeiro

Rivas

2013

Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy

452

247

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“…The number of seeds required and their geometric placement in the target volume is determined through optimised computer dose planning or precalculated monograms [5]. The combination of brachytherapy and hyperthermia may in some cases lead to an improvement in the result of treatment [6,7]. At COOK we will introduce this treatment modality in the near future.…”

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Modern Brachytherapy Techniques - Real-Time High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer

Miszczak

2009

Acta Phys. Pol. A

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The "real time" technique of high dose rate brachytherapy of the prostate gland is described from the point of view of the medical physicist, as an illustration of modern radiotherapy techniques currently applied at the Centre of Oncology in Krakow. This technique, based on ultrasound imaging and on-line calculations of dose distribution around catheters inserted into the prostate volume in which a radioactive Ir-192 source is moved with the aid of an afterloading apparatus, is performed in operating-room conditions in close cooperation with the physician within stringent time limits.

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“…In the case of treatment of tumors with radiotherapy special care has to be taken, as exposure of radiation can harm healthy cells around the tumor cells. Further the treatment is performed at tissue or organ level and not at cellular level, thus the chances of harming the healthy cells increases [2]. Surgery is another conventional treatment for the tumor cells.…”

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Perspective of Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) for the Treatment of Tumor

Priyanka¹,

esar²,

Chikode³

et al. 2016

Tumor Res

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The localized heating of tumor in Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) enables it to be a superior way of treatment than other conventional treatment of tumors. In combination with chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery, better results have been achieved and thus made it clinically approvable. This article introduces recent advances of magnetic materials used in magnetic fluid hyperthermia, factors affecting the performances of these particles and the future of this therapy.

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500 kHz hyperthermia assisted HDR brachytherapy in the treatment of recurrent cervical and endometrial cancer in previously irradiated fields

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Magnetic nanoparticle-based hyperthermia for cancer treatment

Magnetic nanoparticle-based hyperthermia for cancer treatment

Modern Brachytherapy Techniques - Real-Time High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer

Perspective of Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) for the Treatment of Tumor

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