Volker Budach

Volker Budach has led randomized clinical trials of regional hyperthermia combined with radiochemotherapy for head and neck cancers and soft tissue sarcomas, demonstrating improved local control rates with thermoradiochemotherapy. His clinical trial methodologies have addressed the unique challenges of hyperthermia quality assurance in multi-center randomized studies. He has influenced German and European clinical guidelines incorporating hyperthermia for specific cancer indications.