Table I.

Complete response (CR) rate in randomised trials involving irradiation with or without hyperthermia for chest wall recurrence/superficial breast cancer.

Study	Number of patients	Tumour type	Heat (%)	No heat (%)
Perez et al. [30]	236	Superficial tumours (primarily chest wall and neck nodes)	32	30
Jones et al. [31]	108	Superficial tumours (primarily chest wall and neck nodes; melanoma)	66 (no prior RT )	42
			68 (prior RT )	24
Vernon et al. [32]	306	Chest wall (some intact breast)	59	41
Kapp et al. [34]	70	Superficial tumours (primarily chest wall and neck nodes; melanoma)	52 (6 HT )	51 (2 HT )
Engin et al. [42]	41	Superficial tumours (primarily chest wall and neck nodes)	55 (8 HT )	59 (4 HT )

RT, radiotherapy; HT, hyperthermia.