An innovative new medical device which uses microwave heating has shown promising potential for treating precancers and cancers caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). The results – led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and published in Lancet eBioMedicine – used 3D ‘living skin’ in laboratory models of HPV-infected tissues and found that microwave treatment resulted in precise, localised cell death in these tissues without damaging the surrounding areas. The study – which demonstrated cancer cell death induced by hyperthermia, – also showed that the treatment reversed molecular properties of precancer and cancer tissues, such
‘Microwave’ medical treatment shows promise for patients with HPV as seen on The Hippocratic Post.