Review of radiotherapy and hyperthermia in primary cervical cancer

Figures & data

Figure 1. Radiative hyperthermia system.

Figure 2. Capacitive hyperthermia system with external electrodes.

Table I.  Studies comparing radiotherapy (RT) to radiotherapy + hyperthermia (RT+HT).

	FIGO	N	CR		PC		OS		Time
			RT	RT+HT	RT	RT+HT	RT	RT+HT
Datta	IIIb	64	58%	74%	46%	67%	73%	81%	2 years
Sharma	II, III	50			50%	70%			1.5 years
Chen	IIb, IIIb	120	48%	72%
Harima	IIIb	40	50%	80%	49%	80%	48%	58%	3 years
Vasanthan	IIb–IV	110			80%	70%	73%	73%	3 years
Van der Zee	IIb–IV	114	57%	83%	37%	56%	20%	37%	12 years

FIGO, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics tumour stage; N, number of patients included in the study; CR, complete response rate; PC, pelvic tumour control rate; OS, overall survival rate; Time, time of evaluation. All significant differences are in bold.