BSD Medical Corporation Reports Published Study Demonstrates Improved Survival For Pancreatic Cancer Patients Treated Using BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System

BSD Medical Corporation announced that study results demonstrate a survival benefit, without an increase in toxicity, from the addition of hyperthermia (HT) for the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer patients. The study, Regional Hyperthermia Combined with Chemoradiotherapy in Primary or Recurrent Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer, reported the results of an open-label, comparative cohort study of 60 patients with locally advanced, unresectable, pancreatic cancer (LAPC). The study evaluated patients treated with hyperthermia, delivered using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System, combined with chemotherapy and radiation therapy (CRT), as compared to patients treated with CRT alone. Maluta et al., University Hospital of Verona, Italy, reported that the pancreatic patients who were treated with hyperthermia combined with CRT (n=34) had a median overall survival of 15 months, as compared to a median overall survival of 11 months for those treated with CRT alone (n=26). This increase in survival is impressive as the majority of the patients had extensive disease and a dire prognosis. The treatment was well tolerated with no increase in toxicity from the addition of hyperthermia. Even though the patients were not randomized, the treatment group and the control group were balanced in terms of patient and disease characteristics.