DAMAGING CANCEROUS CELLS UTILIZING RADIO FREQUENCY WAVES IN HEATING WITH HEATING ENHANCED BY INFUSION OR INJECTION OF GLUCOSE

Abstract

A method for killing or damaging cancerous cells in a living body comprising introducing glucose or other organic material as a biasing component into heating cancerous cells for purposes of destroying the cancerous cells with a second method of heating, such as by bombardment of energy from an external electromagnetic source, so as to raise the temperature of the tumor or cancerous cells to a degree that they are damaged or expire.

Claims

1. A method for damaging or killing cancer cells in a living human body by damaging or killing cancerous cells comprising the steps of: heating a first portion of the living human body to a predetermined surrounding temperature, the predetermined surrounding temperature being above normal human body temperature and below that which would kill non-cancerous cells also located in said that-same first portion of the human body; and, introducing, into cancerous cells in the living human body located in a second portion of the human body that is contained within the first portion of the living human body, via local infusion to the second portion of the human body, an organic material known to be more readily burned by cancerous cells resulting in a plurality of the cancerous cells in the living body burning the organic material with the burning of the organic material raising the temperature of the cancerous cells to a temperature that is above the predetermined surrounding temperature and high enough to damage or kill at least some of the plurality of cancerous cells; wherein said organic material is glucose; wherein the step of heating the first portion of the human body is accomplished by directing radio frequency waves into the first portion of the human body, the specific one or more frequencies of the radio waves being selected based upon a desired level of penetration previously determined to be provided by the selected one or more frequencies.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of introducing an organic material into at least a second portion of the human body is accomplished by injection or similar means.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the radio frequency waves comprise radio waves containing a number of different frequencies having a power level at each of the selected number of frequencies which provide a depth of penetration of the radio waves into the living body at each frequency resulting in an even heating of the first portion of the human body at a corresponding number of different depths.

5. A method for damaging or killing cancerous cells in a living body comprising the steps of: introducing a fueling material into cancerous cells located within a portion of the living body, by local infusion to the portion of the living body, the fueling material being an organic material known to be more readily burned by cancerous cells than non-cancerous cells, the burning of the organic material raising the temperature of the cancerous cells to a temperature that is above the predetermined surrounding temperature and high enough to damage or kill at least some of the plurality of cancerous cells; applying a heating technique to cancerous cells within the portion of the living body which destroys or damages a plurality of cancerous cells within the portion of the living body without destroying and which causes less damage to a plurality of noncancerous cells within that same portion of the living body; wherein said heating technique comprises the step of directing a plurality of radio waves at a plurality of frequencies and power, the power and the frequency of the radio waves being selected based upon predetermined levels of penetration produced as a function of frequency; wherein said fueling material is glucose.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said glucose is sourced from a sugar.

7. A method for killing or damaging cancerous tumors within a human body comprising the steps of: locating a region within the human body that contains or may contain a cancerous tumor; introducing glucose into the cancerous tumor, if present, via local infusion to the region within the human body, such that the temperature of the cancerous tumor, if present, is increased, by burning of the glucose, to a temperature that is above the predetermined surrounding temperature and high enough to damage or kill at least some cells of the cancerous tumor; and applying electromagnetic waves which heat the region within the human body and resulting in damaging or killing at least some cells of the cancerous tumor.

8. A method for killing or damaging cancerous cells by: (A) introducing into the cancerous cells, via local infusion to an area surrounding the cancerous cells, glucose as an organic agent which functions as a temperature biasing component and causes an increase in the cancerous cells temperature resulting from the organic agent hyperactive metabolism in cancerous tissues; and (B) bombarding an area of living tissue that includes the cancerous cells with electromagnetic energy applied from an external electromagnetic source, causing the cancerous cells to be heated to a temperature that destroys or damages at least a portion of the cancerous cells.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein step B) of bombarding the area of living tissue is accomplished by applying radio frequency waves at a selected frequency and the frequency is selected based upon a predetermined level of penetration into living tissue provided by the frequency.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein step B) of bombarding the area of living tissue is accomplished by applying radio frequency waves at a plurality of selected frequencies, the frequencies selected based upon predetermined levels of penetration into living tissue provided by the frequency.

10. A method for killing or damaging cancerous cells by: introducing into the cancerous cells, via local infusion to an area surrounding the cancerous cells, an organic agent-which serves as a temperature biasing component causing an increase in temperature of the cancerous cells due to hyperactive metabolism of the organic agent in cancerous tissues; and, bombarding an area of living tissue that includes the cancerous cells with electromagnetic energy applied from an external electromagnetic source which causes the cancerous cells to be heated to a temperature that kills or damages at least a portion of the cancerous cells while surrounding or nearby non-cancerous cells within the area of living tissue are heated to a temperature lower than the temperature that kills or damages the cancerous cells.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of bombarding the area of living tissue includes utilizing radio frequency waves at a selected frequency and the frequency is selected based upon a predetermined level of penetration into living tissue based upon frequency.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of bombarding the area of living tissue includes utilizing radio frequency waves at a plurality of selected frequencies and the frequencies are selected based upon predetermined levels of penetration into living tissue based upon frequency.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

[0059] The invention will be better understood by means of the following description, given only as an example and in reference to the attached drawing. Other advantages, purposes and characteristics of the present invention will emerge from the following detailed description and with reference to the attached drawings, in which:

[0060] FIG. 1 illustrates a first embodiment of the present invention in which heating and infusion of glucose are combined so as to heat cancer cells to a level of temperature at which they are damaged or killed.

[0061] FIG. 2 illustrates second and third embodiments of the present invention which also combine heating and the infusion of glucose and are useful in further describing the method of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

[0062] In the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 used to describe the method of the present invention, a human body 102 is shown which is suspected of having cancer cells within an area 105. The cancerous area 105 is contained within a region 104 identified as a potential region of cancer. The elimination or destruction of cancer cells is performed by injecting or introducing glucose into the potential region 104 of cancer or into a larger region around the potential region of cancer through an IV or through similar apparatus. Glucose may also be introduced by ingestion or injection into a greater area 102 which may include the entire human body. A region 102 to be heated within the human body which surrounds the potential region of cancer is located or identified for heating with known methodologies. A controlled heating apparatus 101 is used to apply heating to the region 102. Such heating raises the temperature of the potential region 104 of cancerous cells above a normal body temperature. The cancerous cells which are included within the region of heating 102 are also raised or increased to a level above the temperature of non-cancerous cells produced by the burning of energy by the cancer cells at a rate of burning which is higher than that of non-cancerous cells as a result of the ready availability and absorption of glucose into the cancerous cells. Thus, this raises the temperature of the cancerous cells to a temperature value at which they are damaged or killed.

[0063] In a second embodiment also shown in FIG. 2 to depict the method of the present invention, an organic agent such as glucose 106 (or other sugars) is introduced via injection or other means into the area of cancerous cells 105 within a body of living tissue 202. The organic compound (e.g. glucose) acts as a temperature biasing component causing an increase in the temperature of the cancerous cells as a result of hyperactive metabolism of certain organic agents in cancerous tissues. As shown in FIG. 2, an external electromagnetic source 201 is then used to bombard an area of living tissue that includes the cancerous cells with electromagnetic energy 207. This causes the cancerous cells to be heated to a temperature that causes destruction or damage of at least a portion of the cancerous cells in area 105. The depth of penetration 210 of the electromagnetic waves is adjusted by selecting a frequency for the electromagnetic waves produced by electromagnetic source 201.

[0064] In a third embodiment also shown in FIG. 2, an organic agent such as glucose is introduced via injection or by similar means into the area of cancerous cells 105 which acts as a temperature biasing component thus causing an increase in temperature of the cancerous cells due to hyperactive metabolism of certain organic agents in cancerous tissues. Then, an external electromagnetic source is used bombard an area of living tissue that includes the cancerous cells located within area 105 with electromagnetic energy at a plurality of selected frequencies produced by the external electromagnetic source, thus causing the cancerous cells to be heated to a temperature that causes destruction or damage of at least a portion of the cancerous cells. The frequencies of the plurality of frequencies are optionally selected based upon prior predetermined measurements and studies carried out in a conventional manner to determine a predicted level or depth of penetration 210 into living tissue, and then selecting one or more of a plurality of frequencies to achieve maximum heating in the area or at the depth of penetration 210 known to contain the cancerous cells.

[0065] While the principles of the invention have now been made clear and described relative to a number of potential implementations, it will be immediately obvious to those skilled in the art the many modifications or adaptations which can be made without departing from those principles. While the invention has been shown and described with reference to specific illustrated embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made such implementations without departing from the spirit and scope of the teachings of the invention as defined by the following claims.

[0066] Having described the illustrated embodiments of the present invention, it will now become apparent to one of skill in the arts that other embodiments or implementations incorporating the teachings of the present invention may be used. Accordingly, these embodiments should not be limited to the disclosed embodiments or implementations but rather should be limited only by the spirit and scope of the following claims.