Complete Remission of SCLC with Chemotherapy and Oncothermia (Case Report)

Nowadays, most oncologists have treated their patients with solid tumors by using hyperthermia with good results even though they have a large amount of different thoughts on the mechanism of oncological hyperthermia. We have treated our patients with solid tumor confirmed lung carcinoma with chemotherapy or radiotherapy with oncothermia [1] at the Department of Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Surgery at Gangnam Severance hospital since Jan, 2008. Our objective in this paper showing a case of a patient with Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). The patient was and treated by chemotherapy andand oncothermia in 2008, at the Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Surgery Department, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea. We report a complete remission of this patient after chemotherapy with oncothermia (2 cycles) in follow-up for 3 years.