Matt Kelly explains hyperthermia, a cancer treatment that heats the body to boost radiation and chemotherapy. The therapy comes in four levels, from infrared saunas to hospital-based procedures that raise core temperature and strengthen immune response.
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Another therapy which is starting to catch on in standard oncology in North America, but it's really standard of care in many other countries, is hyperthermia, and that's literally heating your body up. Hyperthermia is just one of the modalities they use along with radiation or chemo or any other therapies, and it's done in the hospitals. There are 4 different levels of hyperthermia. All of them now, we know, can be helpful to your body in changing its core temperature and then affecting your immune system. At the higher levels where your body is being heated up to higher amounts, that is normally done in either specialized clinical settings or hospitals. More mild hyperthermia treatments that some people will do, for example, infrared sauna or other types of sauna or heating treatments, those tend to be at the middle and lower levels of hyperthermia, but still helpful in