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9 Conclusions

Now, nanoparticles enhanced hyperthermia is developing rather rapidly as a promising
alternative to conventional hyperthermia. With incomparable merits, they can be a
critical tool to enhance the thermal ablation effect. So far, many heating sources
are studied to different extent combing nanoparticles with suitable properties,
where magnetic particles enabled hyperthermia and PTT with GNPs developed more
mature or even stepped into clinical trials, and RF ablation with nanoparticles has
come into notice with emerging researches reported on CNT or gold nanomaterial
enhanced RF thermal destruction of tumor. Meanwhile, there are also quite a
few fundamental or practical challenges raised. But with all the efforts ever or
will be made from academics and industries, nanoparticles enhanced hyperthermia
is expected to have ever promising future until finally lend itself to the war with
human killer - cancer.

Acknowledgment This work is partially supported by the NSFC under grant No.81071255
and Tsinghua-Yue-Yuen Medical Sciences Fund.

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