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The International Journal of Hyperthermia marked Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a timely Special Issue on the use of hyperthermia as a treatment for this disease. To mark the Special Issue, Informa Healthcare is donating $1 for each download* of the issue’s free-access articles to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is the world's largest breast cancer charity dedicated to education and research about causes, treatment and the search for a cure.

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Hyperthermia, as its name suggests, involves raising tumor temperature and the treatment is used to fight disease. Modern advancements in hyperthermia biology have led to refinements for individualized thermochemotherapy approaches to treatments as well as interesting potential for exploiting hyperthermia in conjunction with cancer vaccines. Interest in hyperthermia as a treatment for breast cancer has led to significant advances and research activity which, in turn, has had a significant impact on treatment protocol. Thanks to the volume of research and the impact of published articles, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) now includes hyperthermia in their Breast Cancer Guidelines as a treatment for recurrent cancer.

“The breadth of contributions from the authors in this issue highlights the tremendous progress that has occurred in the role of hyperthermia for the treatment of breast cancer,” says Dr Joan Bull, Co-Guest Editor of the Special Edition.. “This subject has garnered broad national and international interest in this cutting-edge treatment for one of the world’s most high-profile and, unfortunately, prolific diseases.” To view the complete list of articles in the issue, please click here. For more information on the Special Issue, please contact Senior Managing Editor Didi Peng.


*This applies to a full text download of any article from the Special Issue (Volume 26 Issue 7) with a maximum donation of up to $1,500.00.

New Hope for Old Chemotherapy?

While the vast majority of cancer research focuses on new therapeutic approaches, recent research on an unrelated topic has revealed new potential for old chemotherapy techniques. Anti-aging research by Valter Longo and colleagues at the University of Southern California chanced upon the idea while studying the effects differential stress resistance brought on by fasting. The groundbreaking study, published recently by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that fasting before chemotherapy has the potential to protect healthy cells from the deleterious effects of broad-spectrum chemotherapy, while cancer cells remain susceptible. Expert Opinion author Antonio Russo has reviewed this research and the potential for further development of this concept in a recent article in Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets.

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