BSD Medical: Preoperative Hyperthermia Therapy Combined With Systemic Chemotherapy ‘Boosts’ Results in Treating Soft Tissue Sarcoma

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 5, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BSD Medical Corporation (Nasdaq:BSDM) today announced that an article titled “Neoadjuvant Treatment of Locally Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Limbs: Which Treatment to Choose?” was published in The Oncologist (2008;13:175-186) by Peter Hohenberger and Wojciech M. Wysocki. The article reviewed different cancer treatment regimens for treating soft tissue sarcoma (a cancer that occurs in the connective tissues such as muscle), including adding hyperthermia to chemotherapy, a combination that “boosted” local progression-free survival for sarcoma patients, according to the authors.

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