Patent ID: 6248056
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
An apparatus (40) comprising a high voltage generator (1) for generating brief voltage pulses for voltage application of electrodes (6,15,16,24) included in the apparatus, or electrodes (6,15,16,24) connected to the apparatus, the apparatus including means (4,5) for distributing the voltage pulses to the electrodes (6,15,16,24) characterized in that the apparatus also includes means (34) for supplying ionized radiation to a tumor (7) existing in a human or in an animal, that the electrodes (6,15,16,24) are designed to be secured to a resricted region of the human or the animal, or designed to be inserted in said region in order, on treatment of the tumor, to form therebetween electric fields, that the fields have a field strength which exceeds a predetermined level, and that the electrodes are disposed, in the treatment, to be placed in or at the tumor (7) in positions entailing that the electric field passes through the tumor.