Prospective Hyperthermia Database in Cancer Patients (HT Register)

Prospektive Hyperthermie-Datenbank Bei Krebspatienten (HTRegister)

This monocentric study registry records all cancer patients at the Charité which are treated with hyperthermia to examine the therapeutic use of hyperthermia in cancer patients in the general application and to obtain an accurate risk-benefit balance

After confinement in this database are the patients prospectively in order to complications, disease status and survival status tracked.

Furthermore there is the possibility in the course of this study to an optional take part in translational accompanying research with the aim of prognostic factors for response to hyperthermia treatment.

A total of 1000 patients with various diseases with the indication for hyperthermia in addition to standard oncological therapy (radiation therapy, chemotherapy, radiochemotherapy) will be included in this registry protocol.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Contrazeption with female patients at the capable of bearing children age
• Written agreement is present (DvH, ICH-GCP)
• Patients, who participate at the same time in a interventional study, can nevertheless in this register study participate if this none Exclusion criterion for the interventional study represents.
• With children must the treatment with one of the GPOH agreed Pattern take place

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exclusion criteria for the hyperthermia (such as hip prosthesis in the therapeutic area, metal implants/marker, patients with cardiac pacemakers)
• mental disease, what the proper study participation does not allow.