Local body hyperthermia

Local body hyperthermia is a type of heat therapy that works by applying controlled heat to specific areas of the body, as part of an overall treatment plan designed for you by Verita Life.

Often used alongside conventional treatments, hyperthermia has become an increasingly important area within supportive cancer therapy and integrative cancer care. At Verita Life, we provide local body hyperthermia under expert medical supervision and incorporate the treatment into wider treatment plans that are tailored to your own personal diagnosis, treatment history, and current cancer stage.

By focusing heat directly on selected treatment areas, local body hyperthermia can be used alone, or be incorporated into comprehensive cancer support programmes that we design around your current medical care.

Unlike our whole body hyperthermia therapies that can affect your overall body temperature, local body hyperthermia works by concentrating heat to a specific area.

Radiofrequency energy passes from applicators placed against the skin to the selected tissues. Verita Life uses two applicator sizes and a water-cooled system to help manage skin temperature. The planned temperature and target area are set by the medical team.

How heat can support another treatment

During local body hyperthermia the blood vessels within the tumour may begin to dilate, helping to improve blood flow and oxygen delivery. With better oxygenation tumour cells can become more responsive to conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Since healthy tissue is more likely to be able to regulate heat than tumour tissue, hyperthermia therapy might place cancer cells under greater thermal stress.

Temperatures between 39°C and 43°C can disrupt the cellular processes within tumour cells. Studies have shown that hyperthermia can affect proteins, cell membranes, and DNA repair, while also increasing the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The non-invasive treatment described here is different from radiofrequency ablation, which uses an inserted probe and higher temperatures to destroy tissue.

Whether local heating is appropriate depends on the tumour’s location and depth, the area that can be treated, previous treatment, and the aim of the care plan. A cancer diagnosis alone does not establish suitability.

Often used alongside conventional treatments, hyperthermia has become an increasingly important area within supportive cancer therapy and integrative cancer care. At Verita Life, we provide local body hyperthermia under expert medical supervision and incorporate the treatment into wider treatment plans that are tailored to your own personal diagnosis, treatment history, and current cancer stage.

At Verita Life our modern treatment centres use advanced hyperthermia systems designed specifically for integrative oncology. All of our sessions are personalised to your needs and incorporated into programmes based on diagnosis, treatment history, and what you personally want to achieve from your time with Verita Life.

We take a multidisciplinary approach and, where appropriate, we will combine this treatment with other supportive and integrative therapies as part of a broader treatment plan designed around you.

Our experienced medical team will supervise and support you in a clean and professional environment, while focusing on your safety and comfort.

A randomised trial in people with superficial tumours found a higher complete response rate when hyperthermia was added to radiotherapy.