Posted AT 8:27 AM EDT on 26/07/06
Doctors find hot new idea: Feel the burn to fight cancer
It's a concept that's been used since the time of Hippocrates and beyond -- using heat to treat what ails us.Now U.S. researchers want to apply that age-old therapy to try to kill certain cancer cells, and they're using the experience of modern-day cycling superhero Lance Armstrong and others cured of advanced testicular cancer as the underpinning for their investigations.
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