[Use of UHF hyperthermia in treating malignant tumors]

Studies performed on rats of line Wag with R-1 tumor, transplanted into the femoral region, indicated that it is possible to use a UHF field for hyperthermia therapy of malignant tumors without inflicting an injury to the normal adjacent tissues and overheating of the organism as a whole. There was found a thermal threshold being in the temperature range of 42--43 degrees, above which a more rapid tumor cell death was noted; it is most radioresistant tumor cells which are first overheated and destructed.