Session: Nanotechnology

Cancer Treatment by Hyperthermia

S.vignesh*, T.K. premannanth
Department of Chemical Engineering,
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering,
Chennai – 600119.

Abstract:
Hyperthermia is a physical therapy for treating cancer by exposing cancer cells and tumor
tissue to high temperatures [42-46°C]. High temperature can damage and kill cancer
cells, usually with minimal injury to normal tissues. Magnetic Nanoparticles can be used
to produce magnetically induced heating effect which finds wide application in the field
of Hyperthermia. The preference of Hyperthermia over chemotherapy and radiotherapy is
due to its localized heating effect with minimal side effects in the body. One of the major
challenges in cancer treatment is to eliminate cancer cells without harm and injury to
normal cells. Magnetic Hyperthermia or hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticle can
realize this objective of killing only cancer cells without any damage to neighboring
healthy cells by a highly localized heating technique. This paper is a discussion on the
various possible applications of Fe3O4 magnetite nanoparticle in Hyperthermia for
treating cancer.

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