SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BSD Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: BSDM) ("Company" or "BSD") (www.BSDMedical.com), a leading provider of medical systems that utilize heat therapy to treat cancer, reported today that an important Phase III clinical study, hyperthermia in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer patients, was the subject of a press release issued by The Society of Thermal Medicine (STM) (http://psfebus.allenpress.com/eBusSFTM/). STM highlighted initiation of the Hyperthermia European Adjuvant Trial (HEAT) during its 29th Annual Conference, which was held in Portland, Ore. The randomized, multicenter, Phase III study, sponsored by the Munich Groshadern University Medical School (UMS) and the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, compares hyperthermia with chemotherapy (gemcitabine plus cisplatin) to chemotherapy (gemcitabine) alone. Patients are randomized following standard surgical resection of the tumor. The study is open for enrollment of 350 patients and has already enrolled the first three patients. Patient enrollment is expected to proceed quickly. The principal investigators are Rolf D. Issels, MD PhD, and Katharina Lechner, MD, from the Munich Grosshadern UMS, Munich, Germany.
