Word: hyperthermia
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...this line of argument is correct, then heating up other tumors - from, say, breast cancer or colon cancer - could help boost the effect of chemotherapy and radiation. Such so-called hyperthermia treatments have been tried in the past, with little success - in part because it was difficult to isolate the tumor from the normal tissue around it. But it's possible that new developments in nano-technology could change the picture...