The experts surmise that heat therapy may be used to fight combat other types of cancer.
Johns Hopkins Medical School 's Professor Robert Getzenberg and colleagues cited pieces of evidence that hinted that testicular cancer cells may also have this sensitivity to heat.
They coined the phenomenon as the 'Lance Armstrong effect'.
It follows then that when cancer cells migrate to other organs they may be vulnerable to higher temperatures thus being more responsive to chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
According to BBC, studies involving men who have the state in which the testes does not descend and remain in the body shows that the nuclear matrix, the protein scaffolding in the control centre of the cell, becomes 'wrecked' and is heat sensitive.
The research team is now conducting experiments using various methods of weakening the nuclear matrix in cancer cells by heat.
"We tried to put our heads together about what we know about the differences between testicular and other cancers. There is an amazing difference in treatment success and we wanted to come up with a simple idea that has a biological basis," Getzenberg said.
Professor Getzenberg added that heat, or hyperthermia, is a venerable treatment for cancer but it must be focused to cancer cells specifically to take effect.
