Therapeutic concept

• Active hyperthermia ("A healthy fever")
• Mild/moderate whole-body hyperthermia
• Loco-regional electro-hyperthermia
• Local chemofusion/embolisation
• Galvanotherapy
• Microcurrent

Supportive therapy

• Pain therapy/pain management with infusion pumps
• Nutrition medicine/tumour metabolism-adapted nutrition concepts
• Orthomolecular therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Phytotherapie/Homöopathie
• Psychooncology
• Location-independent mobile therapy concepts

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institut für Hyperthermie- u.
Ernährungsforschung
Dr. med. Hüseyin Sahinbas

Healthy fever

Hyperthermia is an approved method of treatment during which the body is heated up with different procedures, either completely or targeted in certain regions. The aim is to activate and support the body's immune defences on the one hand, and/or to have a favourable effect on the healing processes of diseased tissue due to the increased sensitivity to heat. An increasing number of suitable devices was developed during the last two to three decades, enabling effective application. Ever since, the different hyperthermia procedures have gained importance in medicine.

Hyperthermia today

The close cooperation and coordination with oncologists and radiotherapists is a precondition of hyperthermia therapy which should accompany other treatment as early as possible. Due to the stimulating effect on the immune system and the targeted damaging of diseased (cancer) tissue, hyperthermia can furthermore be applied for a whole row of chronic illnesses. The spectre ranges from the treatment of skin diseases such as neurodermatitis or psoriasis to rheumatic illnesses and high blood pressure or the burnout syndrome.
Hyperthermia, also referred to as thermotherapy, is a form of multidisciplinary medical treatment during which the body tissue is exposed to increased temperatures with the aim of destroying tumour tissue and taking advantage of synergy effects with chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other substances. Apart from immunotherapy, hyperthermia is a further pillar of cancer therapy which can be complementarily applied together with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Ideal complementary treatment

Hyperthermia is a well examined and effective method of modern medicine. The results of experimental and clinical studies point out that hyperthermia is an ideal complementary treatment and a strong sensibiliser for radiotherapy and chemotherapy. New technical methods and extensive experimental and clinical examinations have proved the efficiency of this method. Depending on the location, size and entity of tumours resp. other chronic illnesses, different technical methods of heat induction are applied.