Method for administering thermotherapy to prevent the growth of tumors

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In order to reduce blood flow thereby accumulating additional equivalent thermal dose following the step of heating an organ or appendage by irradiating microwaves at the organ or appendage the step of compressing the , organ or aplpendage following the heating step is added to thertherapy treatment. In a preferred embodiment, the organ is the prostate and periodic prostate compression is employed to reduce the prostate blood flow thereby allowing chemotherapy, thermosensitive liposome-encapsulated chemotherapy or , gene therapy to accumulate in the prostate region during thermotherapy. Doppler ultrasound imaging may be used to measure tumor blood flow rate and then serve as …