Hyperthermia

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Hyperthermia is, by definition, the condition of having a body temperature greatly above normal; it is not to be confused with hypothermia, known as having a body temperature below normal. The average body temperature for human beings is 98.6°F or 37°C. Body temperature is crucial in maintaining health because many of the vital life functions carried out within your body are “possible only between certain narrowly defined limits of temperature. Cold inhibits and excessive heat suspends them. Body heat is energy. It is employed not just in resisting cold, but also in accelerating cellular activities.”[1] Science classes in school often taught us that bad things happen when our homeostasis, including internal body temperature, is disrupted. However, this is not always true.

Can positive things happen to our body when heat and high temperatures are purposefully utilized in strategic ways? Yes.

 Treating Cancer with Hyperthermia 

Hyperthermia, or an elevated temperature, is used to treat cancer by damaging or destroying tumors using heat. Specifically, “during a hyperthermia treatment, the cancerous tumor is heated to a temperature between 40 and 45°C (104 -113° F) for a certain period of time. Since cancer cells can’t tolerate high temperatures as well as healthy cells, parts of the cancer cells can become damaged by the heat.”[2]

Hyperthermia is most frequently, and most reliably, performed through two methods: 

1. Local Hyperthermia

2. Regional Hyperthermia

Both local and regional hyperthermia treatments are effective and beneficial to fighting cancer, as they each utilize high temperatures to “damage and kill cancer cells, usually with minimal injury to normal tissues. By killing cancer cells and damaging proteins and structures within cells, hyperthermia may shrink tumors.”[3] 

It is important to note that “numerous clinical trials have studied hyperthermia in combination with radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. These studies have focused on the treatment of many types of cancer, including sarcoma, melanoma, and cancers of the head and neck, brain, lung, esophagus, breast, bladder, rectum, liver, appendix, cervix, and peritoneal lining (mesothelioma). Many of these studies, but not all, have shown a significant reduction in tumor size when hyperthermia is combined with other treatments.” 

 Local Hyperthermia

Local hyperthermia treatment occurs when “very high temperatures are used to kill the cancer cells and destroy nearby blood vessels. In effect, this cooks the area that is exposed to the heat. And, as with cooking, the higher the temperature and duration of exposure, the greater the effect seen within tissues.”[4] During local hyperthermia treatments,“different types of energy may be used to apply heat, including microwave, radio-frequency, and ultrasound,” so the treatment is adjustable to your specific medical condition, with regard to your doctors’ discretion, as well as the location of the tumor.

For example, local hyperthermia may be applied externally, primarily to tumors that “are in or just below the skin. External applicators are positioned around or near the appropriate region, and energy is focused on the tumor to raise its temperature.”

Local hyperthermia can also be used to treat tumors within or near body cavities, as well as those that are deep within the body.

Regional Hyperthermia

Regional hyperthermia differs from local hyperthermia in that heat is applied to large areas of tissue, such as a limb, organ, or other body cavity or surface. 

One “approach to regional hyperthermia is deep tissuehyperthermia. This treatment uses devices that are placed on the surface of the organ or body cavity and produce high energy waves directed at a certain area. These devices give off radiofrequency or microwave energy to heat the area being treated.”

Another way in which regional hyperthermia treatment is utilized is through “external applicators, [which] are positioned around the body cavity or organ to be treated, and microwave or radiofrequency energy is focused on the area to raise its temperature.” 

Hyperthermia and You

Hyperthermia is an advanced treatment that requires the utmost attention to detail because the body is extremely sensitive to fluctuations in internal temperature, which can alter the homeostatic normality within the body. Hyperthermia treatment is also implemented in a range of techniques locally and regionally, thus making the treatment flexible to your specific medical circumstance as part of your overall treatment plan. 

CMN Hospital proudly offers hyperthermia in conjunction with our other treatments; to learn more about other treatments offered click here and to learn more about our hyperthermia treatment, contact us here.

References

[1]“The Importance of Body Temperature.” Raw Food Explained.

[2]“Hyperthermia.” Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

[3]“Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment.” National Cancer Institute.

[4]“Hyperthermia to Treat Cancer.” American Cancer Society.

Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation

Ultraviolet blood irradiation (abbreviated as UBI or UVB) is an “intravenous therapy that represents a safe, non-toxic, low cost and drug-free method of treating most blood-borne viruses and it offers hope to those who suffer from viral infections and related conditions,” such as cancer.[1] Dubbed ‘the cure that time forgot’ by the American Journal of Surgery, UBI was first used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat diseases including pneumonia. Its success led it to be used extensively to treat “tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma, and even poliomyelitis. "[2]

How Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Works

UBI is a multi-process medical treatment that assists the immune system and rejuvenates blood properties. Furthermore, “it has also proven to increase oxygen flow to the tissues, causing vasodilation and microcirculation,” a benefit highly regarded in cancer treatments.

UBI, as explained by the Physicians UBI Awareness Center, is a simple process that produces major, effective results. In step-by-step explanation: 

“blood is withdrawn from the patient’s arm using a butterfly needle, and then run through a device which exposes the blood to controlled ultraviolet rays. The patient’s blood is exposed to UV light, where smaller bacterial and viral cells are targeted; they absorb the majority of the photonic energy. The healthy cells remain intact while the disease cells are killed and become antigenic. An “autogenous vaccine,” meaning self-generated, is thus produced. This process is formally known as “induced secondary immune reactivation,” and the end result provides a new supercharged immune response, greater oxygenation, and a balancing of your system; this enriched blood is then re-directed back into the body via the same needle.” [3]

The science behind UBI is clear, exemplifying that “low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA, while any DNA damage in host cells can be rapidly repaired by DNA repair enzymes.”

Ultraviolet blood irradiation is extremely beneficial to patients battling cancer because it strengthens the immune system and improves overall health. In addition, UBI has multiple therapeutic benefits, which can further assist in other cancer treatments simultaneously. These benefits include: 

• Destruction of fungal, viral, and bacterial growth

• Improves circulation and decreases platelet aggregation

• Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels

• Improves the body’s ability to detoxify and inactivate or remove toxins

• Activates cortisone-like molecules, sterols, into vitamin D

• Restores the normal size and movement of fat elements

Following the advent of antibiotics, UBI declined in common usage; doctors turned to prescribing pills, which could be taken out of the hospital, arguably a more minimalist approach to curing disease to multi-day hospital stays. However, due to “the increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant infections and a desire for more natural therapies, UBI is enjoying a type of rebirth” and becoming more highly requested and used in medical offices.

What can UBI treat?

Ultraviolet blood irradiation is unique in that it “invokes photolysis of proteins,” which plays “a role in antigens, launching the appropriate immune reactions in the organism of the patient.”[4] As such, UBI is used to treat a variety of illnesses and medical conditions, some of which include:

• Viral infections

• Hepatitis

• Mononucleosis

• Bacterial infections

• Wound infections

• Lymphadenitis

• Septicemia

• Furunculous and carunculous

• Inflammatory process: thrombophlebitis, fibrositis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis

• Diseases due to inadequate peripheral circulation

• Varicose or diabetic ulcers

• Peripheral atherosclerosis

• Vascular headache

• Non-healing wounds and delayed union fractures

• Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases

How does CMN utilize Ultraviolet blood irradiation? 

CMN Alternative Cancer Treatment has found UBI therapy to be immensely effective in treating patients with a wide variety of illnesses – especially those who are struggling with cancer. At CMN, our physicians can safely administer this form of therapy and use it as part of our comprehensive approach to patient treatment and wellness.

To learn more about how CMN utilizes this therapy, click here or to schedule a video consultation with Dr. Payan at CMN Hospital please contact us.

References

[1]Innovative Medicine. “Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy.” 

[2]J Phototochem Photobiol B. “Ultraviolet blood irradiation: Is it time to remember ‘the cure that time forgot?”

[3]Physicians UBI Awareness Center. “What is BPT?”

[4]Dr. Levon Gasparyan. “Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy Method.”