Bücher der Reihe Recent Results in Cancer Research

Proceedings of an International Symposium, 17-18 March 1983, Zurich University Hospital

Nielsen Image Quality in Mammography: Physical and Technical Limitations . Muir Clinical Considerations in Selection of Dedicated Mammography Units . Sickles Computed Tomography Scanning, Transillumination, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast . Haus Recent Trends in Screen-Film Mammography: Technical Factors and Radiation Dose .

The decisive step in this development was the intensive investigation of one local ization by Papanicolaou: The application of cytology for screening in the field of gynecologic oncology made it an acknowledged technique.

Introduction and Definitions 1 Chapter 2. Biological Basis: Tumour Associated Antigens, the Immune Machinery and Its Behaviour Concerning Cancer Cells 5 2. The Immune Machinery 19 2. Humoral Mediated Immunity and Cell Mediated Immunity 19 2. The Immune Machinery and Cancer Cells 33 2. In vivo Evidence for Tumour Immunity 33 2.

CNRS International Colloquium, Held in Paris on June 22-24, 1977

Although pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious forms of cancers, the lack of clinical symptoms often limits curative treatment options. This book gives insight into the current understanding of the management of pancreatic cancer and considers recent findings in cancer research.

Different cancer types can result from a multiplicity of genetic and environmental factors. In recent years a number of genes have been identified as strong determinants for particular forms of cancer (particularly colon and breast cancer).

The discussion of some diseases is only occasionally enlivened by the emergence of new worthwhile facts.

Although skin cancer is the most common form of cancer and presents a consis tent problem in recognition, in treatment, and in prevention, it usually does not receive as much attention as other more deadly forms of cancer.

The writing of this monograph was stimulated on the one hand by experience gained in the study of "cancer families", and on the other, by the frequent perplexed and bewildered comments made by numerous physicians who have expressed amaze ment that we could think that "cancer is hereditary".

Over the past 50 years many in vitro and in vivo drug response assay systems have been developed to determine the potential - tivity of chemotherapy agents.

Scientific and Ethical Discipline in Clinical Trials on Acute Leukemia G. Although scientific technology was readily accepted and applied, scientific methodology has been accepted much more slowly and is very rarely properly applied.

The Vancouver conference was sponsored by the Cancer Control Agency of British Columbia, and was financially supported by Health and Welfare Canada (6610-1429-50), the Northern Califor nia Cancer Program (NCCP), Miles Laboratories (Canada), Bristol Myers Laboratories (Canada), and Plough Canada Inc.

Minimal neoplasia may be defined as a small cancer that has progressed beyond its site of primary origin into the surrounding tissue, but that has not yet reached the stage of deeper invasion or metastasization.

Physicians and biologists here present their experimental work in the field of hyperthermia, paying particular regard to its relevance in clinical situations. The main topics discussed are the effects of such treatment on normal tissues, animal tumors, malignant cell lines and human tumors.

It was especially appropriate for the Department of Surgery in Heidelberg, in close coopera tion with the Comprehensive Cancer Center Heidelberg/ Mannheim, to prepare a review of our present knowledge of surgical oncology as it is in the tradition of attempting to combine different therapeutic approaches to cancer therapy.

The ultimate "consumer" of the data presented at conferences on the primary treatment of operable breast cancer is the patient, and when, as in this disease, the benefits of therapy are relatively mod est, the availability and interpretation of the data from trials be comes an issue of primary importance.

e., representations of natural and man-made features on the surface of the earth, thematic maps concentrate on displaying the geographical occurrence and varia tion of a single phenomenon - the "theme" of the map.

In the field of Hodgkin's lymphoma, many new data have been collected during the last decade both on the cell of origin of this disease and on more effective therapies to cure the majority of pa tients even in the advanced stages. Most of the recent progress stems from the establishment of permanent cell lines of Hand RS cells in culture.

The present volume concentrates on substantiated data first obtained from the study of tumors developing from hormone regulated or hormone-producing tissue, e.g., the thyroid, adrenal glands, prostate, and the female genital tract. Further improvements can be expected in the localization of hormones in tumor tissue by specific antibodies.

Pathobiology of Human Germ Cell Neoplasia is a state-of-the-art compendium on a very recent branch of tumor biology. Original data for this volume was supplied by experts in the fields of pathology, developmental biology, genetics, molecular biology and other related fields.

The various tumor types, including carcinoma of the prostate, transitional cell carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, and testicular germ cell tumors, differ widely in terms of biological features, in cidence and appearance, diagnostic work-up and manage ment.

The incidence of lung cancer has reached epidemic proportions throughout the civilized world. One indication of the dimensions of this problem is that in the United States lung cancer has become the leading cause of cancer death in women as well as men.

EORTC Symposium, held in Paris on June 24/25, 1976. Sponsored by the Swiss League against Cancer

San Francisco (USA), May 21-22, 1979. Annual Program Review Symposium / US Japan Joint Agreement on Cancer Research