Two different treatment strategies can be used.
Heat therapy is able to destroy cancer cells.
Although the temperatures required for such destruction cannot be achieved in the prostate yet, hyperthermia makes the cancer more sensitive to radiation therapy. At our Department this therapy has been developed and tested since 1997. The prostate is heated up within the organ itself. For this purpose, metal seeds consisting of cobalt and palladium are placed into the prostate. The seeds are not radioactive and can be heated under the conditions of a special magnetic field.