I mentioned in another post that I had gone to St.Louis last week to attend my
daughter's sr. thesis presentation--which was fabulous.  Two hours after I
purchased my ticket I came upon an article/website that talked of an
international radiation conference on a relatively new or not widely used
technique--hyperthermia and cancer treatment-sponsored by Washington U. School
of Medicine in St. Louis.  Anyway, they were having their international
conference at a hotel in St. Louis starting the day after I got there.  
Interestingly (to me anyway), there were some sessions on brachytherapy (sp?).
I didn't know that was even connected with hyperthermia.
I had bought insurance with my 'cheap' ticket  but hadn't thought that had gone
through--which might have allowed me to change the date on the ticket.  I would
have foregone the ticket and stayed a few days but had to get back for meeting
for work.  I later learned I could have had an extra day--oh well.  But, I did
get a chance to stop by the hotel--my daughter's boyfriend took me.  I went up
and got some materials--and names, email addresses--of possible contacts.   I
had hoped to get the syllabus book -- and was willing to buy it--but it turned
out that they had alot of non-reserved registrants that day (before conference
started) and were concerned about not having enough.
Just posting this to share about this not widely recognized area of
treatment-another area to check out that may be of interest to some.
Apparently use of hyperthermia along with radiation further reduces the risk of
local recurrence.