Yonsei Med J.  1989 Mar;30(1):72-80. 10.3349/ymj.1989.30.1.72.

Cooperative clinical studies of hyperthermia using a capacitive type heating device GHT-RF8(Greenytherm)

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  • 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonju, Korea.
  • 4Department of Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonju, Korea.

Abstract

Yonsei Cancer Center developed an RF(Radiofrequency) capacitive type heating device, GHT-RF8(Greenytherm) in cooperation with Green Cross Medical Corp., Korea in 1986 for the first time in Korea. Cooperative clinical studies of hyperthermia for the treatment of cancer using GHT-RF8 were conducted by Yonsei Cancer Center in collaboration with the Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonju, Korea. A total of forty patients with various histologically proven malignant tumors, including superficial (N = 13) and deep-seated tumors (N = 27), were treated with this newly developed heating device in conjunction with radiotherapy (N = 38) or chemotherapy (N = 2) at two different institutes between October 1986 and September 1987. These patients were locally far advanced or recurrent cases and considered to be refractory to conventional cancer treatment modalities. Radiotherapy was given in 200cGy per day, five times a week fractionations with a total tumor dose of 50-60Gy in 5-6 weeks. Within an hour after radiotherapy, the RF capacitive type of hyperthermia was given two times a week for a total of 4-10 treatment sessions and an attempt was made to maintain the tumor temperature at 41-45 degrees C for 30-60 minutes. Of forty patients treated, 14 patients with deep-seated tumors showed complete response and 20 patients showed partial response. The overall response rate was 85% (34 out of 40 patients) and only 6 patients showed no response. Complications from this treatment were mainly burns, superficial first degree burn in 2 cases, second degree in 4 cases and subcutaneous fat necrosis was observed in 2 cases.

Keyword

Hyperthermia; capacitive heating; deep heating; GHT-RF8 (Greenytherm)

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Equipment Design
Female
Heating/*instrumentation
Human
Hyperthermia, Induced/adverse effects/*instrumentation
Male
Middle Age
Neoplasms/radionuclide imaging/therapy
Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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