[Results and prospects for the clinical use of hyperthermia in oncology]

Artificial controlled local and total hyperthermia combined with radio- and/or chemotherapy was used for the treatment of 1211 patients with malignant tumors of different sites. A study of the long-term results of 750 patients showed that the incorporation of hyperthermia in the schemes of combined and multimodality therapy resulted in a significant increase in the 5-year survival of the patients with melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma, breast and rectal cancer.