Hyperthermia in the complex treatment of esophageal cancer patients

The authors present an analysis of the results of the treatment in 78 inoperable patients with cancer of the thoracic esophagus with the use of local hyperthermia, pyrogenotherapy, associated with tumor irradiation. Different schedules of tumor hyperthermia and its irradiation were employed. To heat the tumor a device, designed by the authors, with a contact heat transmission was used. Pyrogenal, prodigiozan were used for pyro.genotherapy. A total focal dose of radiation was lessened compared with the control group on the average by 1/3. Good immediate results were obtained thrice as frequent as in control patients receiving only radiation therapy. After the conducted complex therapy including local hyperthermia 15 % of patients survive over 3 years, while in the control group - O %