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The table lists clinical academic and State/regional whole body thermal therapy centers around the world (as of October, 2005).

Country City Institution

Principal
Investigator

Heat type, machine Protocol
(time, temp.)

Asia
China Baoding Second Hospital of Baoding Chunzhu Yin RF 3.5-6h, 40-40.5oC
China Changchun Jilin Tumor Hospital Changguo Hong RF 3.5-6h, 40-40.5oC
China Jiangmen Guangdong Jiangmen Renmin Hospital Wenping Wu IR  
China Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical School Yajie Wang    
China Shanghai Department of Tumor Hyperthermia Center Kai-sheng Hou IR, ET-Space
extra-corporeal
1-2h, 41.8-42.4oC
China Shanghai Shanghai Jingan Central Hospital Weiping Tao

IR, ET-Space
extra-corporeal

2h, 41.6oC
4h, 42.1oC
China Tai'an City 88th Hospital of PLA Yong Peng   1-2h, 41.8oC
6h, 39.5-40.0oC
China Zhengzhou Modern Hospital, Zhengzhou Dingjui Li RF 3.5-6h, 40-40.5oC
Japan Tokyo Luke Hospital Akira Takeuchi IR  

Europe
Belarus Minsk Belarus Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Reimann Ismail-zade HF EM, Yakhta-5 2h, 41.8-42.5oC
1h, 42.5-43oC
Germany Berlin Ludwig Maximilian University Charite Medical Center Bert Hildebrandt IR, Iratherm 1h, 41.8oC
Germany Frankfurt Krankenhaus Nordwest Elke Jaeger IR, Aquatherm 1h, 41.8oC
Germany Munich Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital Clinic Harald Sommer IR, Iratherm 1h, 41.8oC
Hungary Kecskemet Institute of Radiology of Kecskemet Miklos Szucs IR, OncoTherm 1h, 41.8oC
Norway Bergen University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital Baard-Christian Schem IR, Irathem 1h, 41.8oC
Russia Novosibirsk Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Hyperthermia Roman Tchervov Water bath 43.5-44.0oC
Russia Obninsk Medical Radiological Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Obninsk Yuri Mardynsky HF EM, Yakhta-5 1-2h, 41.0-42.3oC

North America
USA Galveston, TX University of Texas Medical Branch Joseph Zwischenberger extra-corporeal 2h, 42.5oC
USA Houston, TX University of Texas Medical School Joan Bull IR, Heckel 6h, 40.0oC
USA Buffalo, NY Roswell Park Cancer Institute William Kraybill IR, Heckel 6h, 40.0oC

Whole body thermal therapy is also carried out in private clinics all over the world.



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