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**Laser and Radiofrequency Induced Hyperthermia** 

Cancer is a disease characterized by unregulated growth of cells. This is caused by damage of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) results in mutations to vital genes that control cells divisions *(Albert et al., 2004)*. The most common non-invasive approaches used for cancer treatment represent in chemotherapy, as well as radiotherapy. Chemotherapy uses cytotoxic drugs, which are also known as "anti-cancer" drugs or "anti-neoplastic." On other hand, radiotherapy uses high energy of X-rays which were directed to cancerous tissues to cure or shrink the tumor, as well as to protect the tissue against tumor recurrence. Although chemotherapy and radiotherapy are capable of killing cancerous cell, nevertheless they cause some serious secondary effects including nausea, diarrhea, tiredness and fertility loss *(Johannes et al., 2005)*.The conventional surgery of solid tumors is also an effective therapy for removing of well defined and accessible primary tumors located within nonvital tissue regions. However, this therapy is unsuitable for treatment of ill defined tumors and

metastases, as well as tumors that embedded within vital regions *(Hirsch et al., 2003)*.

The current methods for cancer treatment have moderate to severe secondary effects. For this reason, the investigations of new alternatives are essentially. Thermo-therapy is considered one of the most important methods for cancer treatment. In general, the term thermo-therapy refers to both hyperthermia and thermal ablation therapy (*Mriza et al., 2001)*. Hyperthermia therapy is based on the fact that tumor cells are more sensitive to temperature increase than normal tissue cells. It involves tumor heating to temperatures between 41- 42°C inducing almost reversible damage to cells and tissues. For thermal ablation therapy higher temperatures are applied ranging from 50°C to 70°C, leading to destruction of pathologically degenerated cells and irreversible damage resulting in

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