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Recurrent Melanoma Cancer Success of Combined Treatment: Radiation, Chemotherapy, Hyperthermia 888-580-5900 www.ThermalOncology.com

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Recurrent Melanoma CancerSuccess of Combined Treatment:

Radiation, Chemotherapy, Hyperthermia888-580-5900

www.ThermalOncology.com

Brief Recent Medical History

Diagnosis: Feb, 2011

Treatments:

Surgery: Feb, 2012

Ipilimumab: Feb, 2012

Avastin: Oct, 2012

PD-1: Dec, 2012

Hyperthermia & Radiation Therapy: May, 2013

Right Eye Conjunctial Melanoma, Metastasis to the Right Eyelid

Recurred in March 2012

Non-Responder, Colitis, Diarrhea

Non-Responder

Non-Responder (or late responder), Nephritis Nearly complete response, No adverse reaction

10/29/20135/14/2013

10/29/20135/6/2013

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2/11/2014

Nearly Complete Response (7 months post treatment)

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Hyperthermia Improves Response Rates When Used As A Combined Therapy

Clinical Trial Results

¹ Valdagni et al., 1993

² Overgaard et al., 1995

³ Issels et al., 2010

⁴Colombo et al., 2010

⁵Van der Zee., 2000

⁶Vernon et al., 1996

⁷Hurwitz et al., 2011

⁸Kakehi et al., 1990

⁹Jones et al., 2005

¹ Vernon et al., 1996⁰

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1/8/2014There are not enough words to share to express how happy I am that my father is a patient at Beverly Hills Thermal Medicine! My father George Herman developed a very rare and resistant form of melanoma cancer in the eye. His tumor grew aggressively through 3 rounds of chemo and an entire round of radiation.

One of the doctors said to me during the process, "We're hopeful, but not encouraging. I can see how much you love your dad. I suggest you tell him and spend as much time with him as you can. He probably has between 6 months and maybe 3 years on the outside."

I was crushed to hear this.

At the time, my dad was gaunt, pale, weak, lost a lot of weight, and looked very sick. He was always cold, even when it was 90 degrees.

Michael J. H. (Patient’s Son)Burbank, CA

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The tumor grew and grew. Ultimately, it looked like a baseball growing out of his face. I hated that tumor. It represented everything about Western Medicine I always despised. But then cam along Drs. Cyrus and O'Day who changed my father's treatment and said it could take 6 months to a year for the tumor to respond to the treatment.

Well. 3 1/2 months later, the tumor I had been visualizing in meditation to disappear shrunk day by day and in only 3 weeks, disappeared!

The eye has been declared "Cancer-Free!"

My dad's vitality is back and his energy and color is back to normal.

Yes, he's still blind, but he's here and I thank and bless Drs. O'Day and Syrus every day.

the staff at Beverly Hills Cancer Ctr is also top notch and as a team they all work very hard to make their patients healthy.

Michael J. H. (Patient’s Son)Burbank, CAhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/beverly-hills-thermal-medicine-beverly-hills-2

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Whitney Herman Schwartz:(Patient’s daughter)

My father went to Beverly Hills Thermal Medicine for a tumor on his eye. It was big and ugly. After several treatments with Dr. Cyrus, his tumor has gone away. Please, if you know someone suffering from a tumor, I recommend Beverly Hills Thermal Medicine, using Breakthrough advancements in cancer treatments.

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Tami Herman Olshan:(Patient’s Daughter)

The Center for Thermal Oncology - Dr. Cyrus Rafie, you are the best! We can not believe how your treatment has helped my dad. Thank you!

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About Cyrus Rafie:

ThermalOncology.com

Cyrus Rafie, the Medical Physicist at the Center for Thermal Oncology, is one the most experienced user of hyperthermia worldwide with more than 25 years of experience in hyperthermia research and treatment delivery. He is a published expert and speaker in this field. Cyrus Rafie has been involved in hyperthermia treatments of more than 2,500 patients, totaling more than 10,000 treatment sessions. The patients were treated utilizing a variety of hyperthermia technologies such as ultrasound, microwave and localized current field, as well as using different techniques (deep, superficial, interstitial). Cyrus Rafie can be reached at The Center for Thermal Oncology, (888) 580-5900, or www.ThermalOncology.com

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About Beverly Hills Thermal Medicine:

http://bhthermalmedicine.com/contact/take-a-virtual-tour

Beverly Hills Thermal Medicine is an advanced comprehensive cancer treatment center specializing in hyperthermia treatment. Hyperthermia (also known as “thermal therapy”) is a means of using heat to treat cancer. It is used primarily with radiation therapy. Our physicians also pair it with chemotherapy and sometimes a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. The heat is administered by a hyperthermia machine, which uses ultrasound (sound waves), microwaves or another form of energy to create heat within the tumor.

Heat generated by hyperthermia helps to sensitize cancer cells to radiation therapy, thereby making your radiation treatments significantly more effective than if given alone. The two therapies work together to fight the growing cancer cells. Heat also prevents the cancer cells from repairing the cancer-damaging effects of radiation.