Bücher der Reihe Recent Results in Cancer Research

The diagnosis of cancer in the inaccessible regions of the gastrointestinal tract is difficult at best.

In the present book, the etiological role which this metabolite plays in carcinoid of the gastrointestinal tract, and in so-called carcinoid syndrome is being reviewed on the basis of voluminous literature accu mulated during recent years. 31 Historical Background 31 Histopathology of Carcinoid 33 Cardiac Lesions 35 Distribution of Carcinoids .

Over the years, the management of lymphomatous disease has followed a general trend from the purely empirical and intuitive use of medications to radiation, to surgery, and to chemotherapy with alkylating agents and anti-metabolites. Therefore the pathology is reviewed and these diseases classified before reviewing therapy of the lymphomas.

The introduction of new methods for studying the plasma state, renal handling, and kinetics of calcium and inorganic phosphate has rendered possible a more efficient and appropriate approach to the problems of bone-tissue metabolism and more ade quate investigation of the pathogenesis of its miscellaneous abnormalities.

One of the chief concerns of the medical staff of the Institut Gustave-Roussy is to find the right indications for treating every cancer site, and particularly cancer of the breast.

With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can continue to ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments.

Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma is a rare thyroid tumororiginating from neural crest cells, the C-cell that impliesseveral special features, secretion of differentneuroendocrine markers, association with other endocrinetumors and familial appearance.

The contributions in this book were originally presented at the workshop "Research and Clinical Application of Isolated Liver Perfusion for Hepatic Tumors" held on 28 February to 1 March 1997 in Hanover, Germany.

Clinical trials with Lipiodol l3ll were started in 1961 by my associate, S. This mono graph describes the extensive clinical evaluation and the radiological results obtained in a large group of patients with malignant lymphomas. the choice of radionuclide, the specific clinical indications and the proper evaluation of the therapeutic effects.

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Interest in the general field of tumor immunology has grown phenomenally in recent years. Weare thus very fortunate when an investigator with long and wide experience in the field of tumor immunology takes the time to share his perspectives of a portion of that field.

A viral etiology could explain many of the dis parate findings with such a puzzling disease as lymphogranulomatosis, which shows both all the signs of malignancy, such as the characteristic Reed-Sternberg and Hodgkin cells and chromosome abnormalities, and those of an inflammatory disease, i.e.

Grundmann It may seem strange for somebody to hold a symposium on cancer regis tration and then submit a paper under the heading "The Pros and Cons of Cancer Registration." Indeed, this younger generation is much too sceptical whenever confronted with anything done by the older generation - and science is pursued primarily by the "establishment."

Symposium on "Cerebral Gliomas" held at Chicago, May 18-19, 1974

Gesellschaft zur Bekampfung der Krebskrankheiten, Nordrhein- Westfalen e.V. and European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer. 5. Symposium in Dusseldorf, November 8, 9, 1973

Bone Tumors - A Challenge for Cooperation E. For quite a long time the osteoclastic giant cells, observed in almost any kind of bone tumor, have so much fascinated the histologist's eye that he was apt to pro claim the diagnosis "brown giant cell tumor" for almost any osteoclas tic tumor regardless of its benignity or malignancy.

Not only is there the human element, but there is also the fact that survival of the successfully treated child is measured in scores of years rather than the ordinary five to ten year survival rates cited for the adult.

Proceedings of the National Conference on Braest Cancer in Montreal, October 31 - November 1, 1975, organized by the Institute d'hematologie-oncologie de Montreal

EORTC-Symposium, held in Paris on June 26/27, 1975

Analyses of multiple primary malignancies serve as a guide to the probable anatomic location of a subsequent primary and help define characteristics of the individual at high risk for multiple primary cancer. Studies of multiple primaries provide an efficient means for quantifying potentially harmful effects of current therapeutic modalities.

Sponsored by the Swiss League against Cancer

Seventh International Symposium of the Gesellschaft zur Bekampfung der Krebskrankheiten Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V., Dusseldorf, October 24/25, 1975. Sponsored by the Swiss League against Cancer

The cloning of hemopoietic cells in semisolid medium began some 12 years ago, and when colonies of T = and B = lymphocytes were grown by several groups last year, the last major subclasses of hemopoietic cells had been successfully cultured in vitro.

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