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Clinical Trials of Long-Term RF Local Hyperthermia for Advanced Gastric Cancer Hiroyuki MINAKUCHI,Renzo HIRAYAMA,Shigeo SAWAI,Yasuyuld KAWACHI, Shuji TOMINAGA,Zenro NIHEI and Yoshio MISHIMA ABSTRACT: T h e effect of local hyperthermotherapy (HT) using 13.56M H z radiofrequency (RF) capacitive heating was evaluated in 25 patients with unresectable or recurrent gastric cancer. H T was carried out once to 3 times a week for a duration of one h o u r at each session. Patients who underwent RF-HT frequently showed maintenance o f p e r f o r m a n c e status, symptomatic i m p r o v e m e n t a n d a reduction in t u m o r size. Moreover, the survival time o f 9 patients who had numerous metastases to the distant peritoneum was significantly high (p

Clinical trials of long-term RF local hyperthermia for advanced gastric cancer.

The effect of local hyperthermotherapy (HT) using 13.56-MHz radiofrequency (RF) capacitive heating was evaluated in 25 patients with unresectable or r...
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