FOUNDATION AND FUTURE PROJECTS OF A NEW EUROPEAN HYPERTHERMIC SOCIETY: SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI IPERTERMIA ONCOLOGICA (SIIO)

The Italian Society of Oncological Hyperthermia (Società Italiana di Ipertermia Oncologica) was founded in September 2023 to promote oncological hyperthermia in Italy to better cure and serve cancer patients and give correct data to the Italian Ministry of Health and Regional Health Departments to develop a real Health Technology Assessment in oncological hyperthermia, currently not existing. SIIO intends to operate in all areas of medical, biological and physical research and promote all activities of support for patients, to organize data base, protocols of assistance, and new phase II and III trials. More than three thousand patients were treated with hyperthermia every year in Italy, 86% in private clinics and 14% in public Hospitals, all patients are in the metastatic phase relapsing after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. SIIO wants to expand the therapeutic paradigm of hyperthermia through the increase the number of Centres and the training of new doctors, nurses and technicians dedicated to hyperthermia.