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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
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| 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 |
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| China |
Shanghai |
Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical School |
Yajie Wang |
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| 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 |
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Europe
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| 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
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| 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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