Chapter title |
Preclinical Validation of the Located Hyperthermia Using Gold Macro-Rods and Ultrasound as an Effective Treatment for Solid Tumors
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
GeNeDis 2016
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-57379-3_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-957378-6, 978-3-31-957379-3
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Authors |
Andre L. S. Barros, Carlos Austerlitz, Ioannis Gkigkitzis, Diana Campos, Jeyce K. F. de Andrade, Teresinha G. Silva, Silene C. Nascimento, Ioannis Haranas |
Abstract |
Hyperthermia, the procedure of raising the temperature of a part of or the whole body above normal for a defined period of time, is applied alone or as an adjunctive with various established cancer treatment modalities such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In this study used a method for inducing hyperthermia in solid tumors with a combination of gold macro rod (GR) and ultrasound, the feasibility of this technique was described only with computational models and in vitro. The Ehrlich tumor, derived from a mouse adenocarcinoma, has been used to investigate the bio-heat transfer and the effect of gold rods irradiated with ultrasound. The in vivo measurements demonstrated that the technique inhibited more 80% of the tumor growth in both experimental models tested. These results not only confirm the bio heat transfer to tissue as predicted by analytical calculation and in vitro measurements, but are also proved to be a potential alternative to kill cancer cells. |
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