METHOD FOR DESTROYING CELLS IN TUMORS AND THE LIKE

摘要

A method for treating a body part on or within a living body. The body part is heated by radiating electromagnetic energy from within the interior of the body part. The temperature is sensed at a number of spaced locations near the outer periphery of the body part as the energy is radiated. The heating step is interrupted when the temperature at at least one of the spaced locations near the outer periphery of the body part reaches a particular pre-set value. The body part is re-heated when the temperature near the one location near the outer periphery of the body part has fallen to a second pre-set value. This procedure of heating, sensing, interrupting and re-heating is repeated for a pre-determined time.