Review of tumor hyperthermia technique in biomedical engineering frontier

Development of biomedical engineering technology has great relation to human health, and tumor as a harmful disease is taking huge threaten to human health. Methods of tumor treatment have three kinds such as surgical operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but all these methods take great pain for patient during cure process. Microwave ablation, radiofrequency ablation and high intensive focused ultrasound (HIFU) are new technologies of treating tumor hyperthermia. In this paper, mechanism of tumor hyperthermia was introduced; advantages and disadvantages of three kinds of hyperthermia methods, and measurement and control of inner temperature field during hyperthermia process were discussed. It shows that new hope will be taken to tumor patients if technologies and methods of hyperthermia are fully used.