[Curability of multidisciplinary treatment including combined hyperthermia, radiotherapy and chemotherapy]

Reported are the results in 311 patients who received a multidisciplinary treatment for their cancers, said treatment combining hyperthermia, radiotherapy, and chemtherapy. Of his number, 266 patients were in the advance stage of their disease while another 42 still had localized cancers. According to the criteria of Koyama and Saitoh for evaluating solid tumors that had received chemotherapy, of 298 evaluable patients, 64 showed a complete response (CR), 94 showed a partial response (PR), 89 showed no change (NC), and 57 showed a progressive disease (PD), for an overall response of 53.0% (158 cases). A multidisciplinary treatment combining radiotherapy and hyperthermochemotherapy was used for cases involving localized tumors of the vulva, the skin, the thyroid gland, the prostate gland, the uterus, the rectum, the soft tissue bone, and the ovary, though our treatment regimen could not be continued in cases of tumors involving the stomach, the esophagus, the lung, the mediastinum, the liver, and the pancreas. Our data has shown that a high overall rate of curability was achieved in cases involving the stomach, the bladder, the blood, the skin, the head, and neck, and the esophagus.