Whole-body heat therapy to boost cancer treatment response
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This study tests whether controlled whole-body heat, given along with standard cancer treatment, can help those therapies work better. It is designed for several specific advanced cancers in situations where care is focused on symptoms and tumor control.
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Who can take part
- You must be well enough for combined treatments (about WHO 0–2 performance status).
- Your cancer type must match one of these: melanoma, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer needing outside-the-brain palliative radiation, high-grade sarcoma, HPV-related head/neck or other squamous cancers, or prostate cancer needing a specific prostate-targeted treatment plan.
- For some cancer types, the study requires you to be starting a specific first treatment (for example immunotherapy for melanoma, FOLFIRINOX for pancreatic cancer, or platinum-based chemotherapy for HPV cancers).
- If you need radiation as part of your care, it must be outside the brain and within a planned dose range (30–36 Gy), and there must be at least one tumor spot not covered by that radiation.
- You should not have a reason you cannot safely receive both chemotherapy (if planned) and whole-body heat at the same time.
- You cannot have certain health issues that could block treatment, such as active infections, serious heart/lung problems, inflammatory bowel disease, brain metastases, or diabetes with high risk of organ damage.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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