Hyperthermia and the Therapy of Malignant Tumors formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642829574 The Editors take great pleasure 9783642434266 The Editors take great pleasure in thanking once more the members of the Scientific Committee and of the International Scientific Advisory Board in creating an excellent scientific programme for this congress The topical areas include active areas of the application of biostatistics to modern cancer research: survival analysis only in the 1960s and 1970s were systematic investigations started which showed radiosensitisation and chemosensitisation by hyperthermia in cells and tissues including tumours Tumour therapy depends essentially on being able to destroy the clonogenic activity of tumour cells while keeping the damage to the normal tissue low