How is it different from conventional hyperthermia and radiation therapy?
Nanothermy is selective, hyperthermia and radiotherapy are not.
Nanothermy produces heating exclusively in the tumor, which is the one that absorbs the deposited energy.
Hyperthermia causes heating of the area and does not reach the necessary temperature to damage the tumor. The temperature in the skin is higher than inside the tumor. This can cause burns. Nanothermy can reach up to 42.5 degrees in the tumor and the skin be at 37 degrees.
Nanothermy potentiates all therapies. Conventional hyperthermia only increases the temperature and can produce a greater blood supply to the area and bring more food to the tumor, even more chances of metastasis. Nanothermia produces apoptosis and not necrosis. Like other therapies (radiotherapy) this generates less inflammatory process.
That is why we can treat tumors in the head or brain without affecting healthy areas, such as nerves or blood vessels, even vital ones. Nanothermia increases chemotherapy 10 times and radiotherapy 5 times.