>I suppose BSDM equipment could be good for treatment of most bone cancers. It might work on breast tumors.<
Again, precision heating with microwave energy is a very widely applicable cancer therapy – both for direct ablation (“killing”) of tumors and as a powerful adjuvant for surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy (and it is safer than these three established modalities). Breast cancer is just of *many* types that are very suitable for heat treatments – and microwave heating is the outstanding approach. Proof for this has reached very impressive levels, and practice is burgeoning (on a percentage increase basis.
Regarding breast cancer specifically, a Google search for {breast "BSD Medical"} returned 140,000 hits! Here is one of them (a news release by BSD Medical):
http://investor.bsdmedical.com/press-release/clinical-trials-and-research/bsd-medical-reports-publication-special-edition-internati
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<Van Der Zee, et al. (Reirradiation combined with hyperthermia in breast cancer recurrences: Overview of experience in Erasmus MC) reviewed 21 published clinical studies on 974 patients who had recurrent breast cancer after previous irradiation who were treated with hyperthermia and radiotherapy. The rate of complete response following reirradiation and hyperthermia for these patients was 61%, as compared to only 32% after radiotherapy alone. The researchers also reviewed their clinical experience in treating patients who had recurrent breast cancer after previous irradiation. The researchers stated that “In 74% of our patients with recurrent breast cancer treated with a reirradiation scheme of 8 fractions of 4 Gy in 4 weeks, combined with 4 or 8 hyperthermia treatments, a complete response is achieved, approximately twice as high as the CR rate following the same reirradiation alone. The CR rate in tumours smaller than 30mm is 80–90%, for larger tumours it is 65%. Hyperthermia appears beneficial for patients with microscopic residual tumour as well.”>
There are links at the company’s website to many successful trials for *many* cancers. Why not? – high temperatures are lethal to essentially all biological material – and tumors often are even more susceptible (poor cooling from poor blood circulation, for example). Microwave cancer therapy is a GENERAL method – applicable, in one way or another, to virtually all cancers (perhaps actually all):
http://investor.bsdmedical.com/press_releases/clinical_trials_and_research
Aside from some decades-ago poorly conceived/executed trials, I have seen nothing but successful and impressive results for microwave-heating therapy for cancer. Further, this has always been expectable, on theoretical grounds. However, developing and introducing a “sea change” medical therapy is predictably a difficult, long-term process. BSD Medical has done it! Now, it is clearly predictable that the company will very likely see massive growth. Time to widespread adoption of these advances is anyone’s guess, but it is now happening fast (on a percentage basis).
Today’s news is typical of what can be expected – frequently.
>But you still have the status quo where any time a surgeon can get in easily enough and take out an organ or a chunk of flesh, tissue, or bone with the whole tumor in it, they will continue to do so. So you will have professional inertia (conservatism) working against BSDM, not to mention professional self-interest (how they get their money) working against eager acceptance of BSDM's tumor ablation equipment. But if it really works, at some point the dam will burst. <
Yes -- but, today you have heard another loud, ominous crack in that dam! |
