Combination treatment of cancer of the stomach using preoperative telegammatherapy in combination with local SHF-hyperthermia

Chernyĭ, V.A.; Korobko, V.B.; Shchepotin, I.B.; Maligonov, P.A.

Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 5: 31-32

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130
PMID: 2754970
Document Number: 337252
The immediate and long-term results of treatment of 178 patients with gastric cancer, who underwent before surgery intensive telegammatherapy in combination with local SHF-hyperthermia, and without it, were studied. The total focal dosage was 20 Gy, temperature on the surface of a tumour reached 41-43 degrees C. At the late period, the increase in survival of the patients, who had no lesions of the regional lymphatic nodes was noted. In patients with regional metastases, the reverse effect was observed.

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