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ICMF Forum The multitude of microenvironmental factors, their enormous activity spectrum and the complexity of their intermolecular cross talk requires active interdisciplinary interactions between researchers engaged in this research domain. In an effort to promote such interactions, we organized, in 1995, The First International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment. The conference that was held in Israel on the shore of the Sea of Galilee was highly successful both from the scientific as well as the social aspects. It became clear to many of the participants that microenvironmental factors could play unconsidered but important roles in existing cancer treatment modalities and that new modalities aiming to target tumor-enhancing microenvironmental factors should be developed. The 1995 conference was the impetus to establish the International Cancer Microenvironment Forum (ICMF). The forum was founded by an international group of about twenty cancer researches from 10 countries. The list of these ICMF charter members is given below. ICMF became recently the International Cancer Microenvironment Society (ICMS). The society aims to become a driving force in the development of cancer therapies that would target microenvironmental factors thereby shifting the balance of tumor-microenvironment interactions towards tumor and metastasis suppression. We trust that this aim will be achieved by promoting international cooperation and by stimulating basic, translational and applied research in themes linked to cancer microenvironment.