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Klinikum Großhadern
University of Munich, Germany
April 9-12, 2008

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Engineering / Physics

Speaker Titles
Wust (D) Standards for non-invasive control, planning and performance of regional hyperthermia
Van Rhoon (NL) Innovation in Devices and Technology for Hyperthermia
Ter Haar (NL) High intensity focused ultrasound
Lagendijk (NL) The potential use of a 3T MRI for regional hyperthermia
Kuster (CH) Easy-to-use, real-time & reliable hyperthermia treatment planning: expectations & reality
Diederich (USA) 3D-Control of thermal therapy with catheter-based ultrasound
Das (USA) Fast optimization and control in electromagnetic thermal therapy using reduced order techniques
McDannold (USA) MRI-guided focused ultrasound for thermal ablation and drug delivery
Cendes (USA) Advances in computer modeling for thermal therapy and other medical applications
Kato (J) Focused deep heating with annular-shaped inductive aperture-type applicator
Kuroda (J) Target-tracking thermometry for focused ultrasound therapy of liver based on filtered venography and self-reference techniques
Ito (J) Microwave Interstitial and Intracavitary Hyperthermia

Clinic

Speaker Tentative Titles
Jordan (D) Thermotherapy using magnetic nanoparticles: Principles and clinical application
Franckena (NL) Long-term improvement in treatment outcome after radiotherapy and hyperthermia in locoregionally advanced cervix cancer: An update of the Dutch Deep Hyperthermia Trial
Jones (USA) An update of the Duke experience for thermally sensitive (TS) liposomes containing doxorubicin (ThermodoxTM;TDox) Iin combination with hyperthermia (HT) in breast cancer patients with chest wall (CW) recurrence
Colombo (I) Chemio-Hyperthermia for treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. An overview on basic science and clinical outcomes.'
Eggermont (NL) TNF-isolated limb perfusion program for extremity soft tissue sarcomas
Maluta (I) Impact of hyperthermia combined with radiochemotherapy in locally advanced pancreatic cancer
Tschoep (D) Gemcitabine (GEM) + cisplatin (CIS) combined with regional hyperthermia (RHT) in patients with GEM-pre-treated pancreatic cancer: Results of the ESHO phase II trial
Lindner (D) Heat inducible cytotoxicity of hexadecylphosphocholine (miltefosine) in thermosensitive liposomes
Hurwitz (USA) Hyperthermia for prostate cancer: Clinical results and future directions
Myerson (USA) Thermal dosimetry revisited
Kiel (USA) Hyperthermia and radiation therapy, with and without chemotherapy, for locally advanced or recurrent breast carcinoma
Huilgol (IND) Clinical hyperthermia: Opportunities and challenges in developing countries.
Issels (D) Risk of early progression in patients with high-risk soft tissue sarcomas: results of the phase III randomized prospective trial of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without regional hyperthermia (EORTC-ESHO Intergroup trial)
Sakurai (J) Clinical studies using Thermotron-RF8 for advanced lung, esophageal and rectal cancer -Gunma University experience-
Shao (PR China) Intracavitary hyperthermia combined with radiotherapy for the treatment of patients with stage Ib2 cervical cancer
Tanaka (J) The past and present status of hyperthermic oncology in Japan
Zhang (PR China) Clinical study of recombinant human p53 adenovirus combined with hyperthermia in advanced cancer ( a report of 32 cases )
Wessalowski (D) Clinical hyperthermia: Opportunities and challenges in developing countries.

Biology

Speaker Tentative Titles
Vaupel (G) Impact of tumor hypoxia on the efficacy of hyperthermia: Help or hindrance?
Horsman (DK) Vascular based approaches
Calderwood (USA) Role of scavenger receptors in Hsp70-based immunotherapy
Asea (USA) HSP25 Silencing
Repasky (USA) Complex effects of hyperthermia on the immune system and implications for cancer therapy
Van Eden (NL) Heat shock proteins induce T-cell regulation of chronic inflammation
Di Nicola (I) Vaccination of indolent non Hodgkin's lymphoma patients with autologous dendritic cells loaded with heat shocked and killed autologous tumor cells: a phase II study.
Dewhirst (USA) Role of HIF-1 in response of tumor to hyperthermia
Evans (USA) Thermal targeting of vascular endothelial gateways to tumors
Khleif (USA) Cancer vaccine, a promises or a reality
Kondo (J) Genes and genetic networks responsive to mild hyperthermia in human leukemia U937 cells
Multhoff (D) Hsp70 and HLA-E serve as activatory and inhibitory ligands for CD94 positive NK cells
Ohtsuka (J) Molecular chaperone activity of Hsp70 and Hsp40, and its medical application
Takahashi (J) The study of target genes deciding heat-sensitivity
Ohnishi (J) Localization of DSB-recognizing proteins in the nucleus after heat treatment

Program committee

ESHO Issels, Munich; Gerard Van Rhoon, Rotterdam and Valeria Milani, Munich
STM Mark Hurwitz, Boston (MA); Paul Stauffer, Durham (NC); Robert Griffin, Little Rock (AK); Dieter Haemmerich, Charleston (SC)
ASHO Takeo Onishi, Nara, Japan; Koichi Ito, Japan; Nagraj Huilgol, Mumbai, India

Important Note:

Preeminent speakers from the Asian Society of Hyperthermic Oncology will be named at a later date. The final Program and Abstract Book will be distributed onsite to registrants at the meeting.