This project proposes the development and the understanding of a therapy

that enables on the one hand stabilization of the spine and on the other hand

the hyperthermia of the spinal metastatic tumors. Traditional bone cement

does not contain any magnetic materials inside and thus does not interact

with the magnetic field. This cement loaded with magnetic nanoparticles,

can be clinically administered in a minimally invasive way as it is being

done in vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty. The magnetic nanoparticles can

then be activated through an externally generated magnetic field so that

they heat the bone cement and thus the surrounding biological tissue.