With its international team of authors, the book presents the state of the art in the field of high-dose therapy of malignant and non-malignant diseases; the scientific papers presented in this volume centre on haematological malignancies; they are notable among the various current attempts to improve the therapy of cancer; novel treatment strategies are described, in which immunological techniques, the introduction of new pharmaceuticals, of biological factors and genetic engineering emerge as promising tools; the volume is a comprehensive account of the Workshop held in April 2001 in Bad Saarow/Berlin, Germany, the 5th of its kind in the past decade;