Chronicle of the ISC—International Society of Cryosurgery

Congress	Year	Venue	President	Congress Chairman
1^st	1972	Vienna	Gottlob, R.	Haschek, H.
2^nd	1974	Turin	Haschek, H.	Sesia, G.
3^rd	1977	Valencia	Haschek, H.	Cases, A.T
4^th	1980	Sanremo	Ablin, R.	Garibaldi, B.
5^th	1983	Manila	Sesia, G.	Tanchoco, S
6^th	1986	Athens	Sumida, S.	Dimopoulos, C.
7^th	1989	Beijing	Fontana, G.	Liu, Y-C.
8^th	1992	Buenos Aires	Turjansky, E.	Stolar, E.
9^th	1995	Paris	Stolar, E.	Homasson, P.
10^th	1998	Orlando	Homasson, P.	Onik, G. Prof. G.
11^th	2001	Lisbon	Goncalves, J.	Maiwand, O.
12^th	2003	London	Maiwand, O.	Maiwand, O.
13^th	2005	Iraklion	Maiwand, O.	Zoras, O
14^th	2007	Beijing	Lugnani, F.	Zhao, Fengrui
15^th	2009	St. Petersburg	Lugnani, F.	Prokorov, G.
16^th	2011	Vienna	Sumida, S.	Korpan, N.
17^th	2013	Bali	Korpan, N.	Sutedja, B.
18^th	2015	Kanazawa	Xu, K.	Tsuchiya, H.
19^th	2017	Kaunas	Isoda, H.	Benetis, R.
20^th	2019	Haifa	Watanabe,M.	Har-Shai Y
21^th	2021	Online	Yueyong Xiao	Yueyong Xiao
50^th Anniversary	2022	Online	Yaron Har-Shai	Prof.Dr.Korpan,Prof.Dr.Har-Shai,Prof.Dr.Xiao

The historical changes of disease specificity of presented papers at each congress since 1972 to 2019 is as follows;

Congress No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Year and site of Congress Disease specificity	1972- Vienna	1974- Turin	1977- Valencia	1980- Sanremo	1983- Manila	1986- Athens	1989- Beijing	1992-Bue nos Aires	1995- Paris	1998- Orlando	Total no. of papers presented
Dermatology	4		2	14	5	6	12	48	2	30	207
General surg.	0		0	10	4	1	7	5	0	13	159
Prostate, vesicular	11		13	30	10	7	10	7	0	4	127
Thoraco-bronchial	0		0	3	0	2	4	5	19	4	117
Cryobiology, basic	1		2	11	0	2	12	1	4	15	79
Experiment, veter.	13		4	11	0	1	5	0	9	1	73
Technology-MRI	4		2	6	6	1	4	0	1	10	68
Cryoimmunology	0		6	11	14	2	5	1	5	6	73
Preservation	0		2	0	8	6	23	10	0	4	66
Hemorrhoid, rectal	0		10	20	3	3	4	7	0	2	60
Gynecology	3		5	6	5	1	1	6	0	1	42
ENT, Oral	1		4	9	0	3	0	5	2	0	37
Radio. Laser, US	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	22	30
Neuralgia, Neurology	2		1	6	2	2	2	1	0	0	31
Renal-Bladder	4		0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	34
History	0		0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	27
Orthopedic	0		0	0	4	0	2	0	0	1	44
Postop.Cryosauna	0		0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	21
Ophthalmology	6		2	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	18
Cardiovas.	1		0	0	2	2	3	0	1	0	15
Breast	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
+Chemotherapy	0		0	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	10
Total number of papers	50		53	140	69	41	104	99	43	120	1365

Congress No.	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	50^th anniversary
Year and site of Congress Disease specificity	2001- Lisbon	2003- London	2005- Crete	2007- Beijing	2009- St.Ptbg	2011- Vienna	2013- Bali	2015- Kanazawa	2017- Kaunas	2019- Haifa	2022- Vienna	Total no. of papers presented
Dermatology	9	3	14	4	22	9	11	6	6	7	1	215
General surg.	10	15	6	37	1	18	15	11	6	9	1	169
Prostate, vesicular	10	1	5	4	10	0	2	0	3	3	0	130
Thoraco-bronchial	16	10	17	34	6	4	7	3	2	6	2	125
Cryobiology, basic	4	3	4	2	1	0	1	1	0	5	1	85
Experiment, veter.	4	7	3	16	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	73
Technology-MRI	3	2	0	7	6	6	1	0	1	0	2	70
Cryoimmunology	4	1	0	13	1	0	2	2	4	1	1	75
Preservation	1	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	1	0	1	67
Hemorrhoid, rectal	2	1	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	60
Gynecology	0	1	1	6	4	0	1	1	0	2	2	46
ENT, Oral	2	0	1	3	2	3	4	0	0	3	0	40
Radio. Laser, US	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	30
Neuralgia, Neurology	1	0	0	2	6	0	5	0	2	0	1	32
Renal-Bladder	1	4	1	2	4	3	7	0	4	4	0	37
History	2	1	1	2	6	5	4	1	2	3	2	32
Orthopedic	4	1	2	0	6	0	6	13	5	7	1	52
Postop.Cryosauna	0	0	0	3	8	1	2	0	0	0	1	22
Ophthalmology	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
Cardiovas.	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	15
Breast	2	1	1	6	2	1	4	2	1	4	0	25
+Chemotherapy	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	10
Total number of papers	78	54	59	144	92	62	76	41	40	59	19	1438

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