{"title":"Pancreatic cancer.","authors":"F R Bentley, I Cohn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer of the pancreas remains a disease for which there is no satisfactory treatment. A specific population at risk and etiologic factors have not been clearly defined. The increased incidence in industralized countries over the past 30 to 40 years is not understood. Technological advances have permitted more frequent diagnosis at an early stage, but this has not influenced survival statistics. Clearly, there is a need for a reliable tumor marker that will allow diagnosis to be made even earlier. Radical surgery appears to have reached a plateau in terms of improving survival. Morbidity and mortality have decreased since pancreatoduodenectomy began to be widely used. This decrease is probably due to better pre- and postoperative surgical management than to major improvements in technique. More radical procedures have failed to demonstrate clearcut improvements in survival. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are in the early stages of systematic exploration in treating pancreatic cancer. Most reports deal only with palliating advanced, nonresectable disease. The utility of radiotherapy and chemotherapy as adjuncts to surgery have not been defined.</p>","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"47-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Costa, U Pastorino, C Andreoli, A Barbieri, E Marubini, U Veronesi
{"title":"Vitamin A and retinoids: a hypothesis of tumour chemoprevention.","authors":"A Costa, U Pastorino, C Andreoli, A Barbieri, E Marubini, U Veronesi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"271-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angiography, intraarterial embolization, and regional chemotherapy of tumors.","authors":"C P Karakousis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"113-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer.","authors":"J Yoel, D O Simkin, O González Aguilar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report covers the authors' experience during 19 years with patients at Buenos Aires Municipal School of Oral, Cervical, and Thyroid Surgery at Rawson Hospital; at the Municipal Hospital of Oncology; and in their private practice. During this period, 165 patients underwent surgery for thyroid cancer. An analysis is made of the surgical treatments chosen, the different histological types encountered, and the lymph node and radical neck dissections performed. The advantages and drawbacks of total thyroidectomy, as well as the survival rates, are commented upon.</p>","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"373-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Mettlin, C Karakousis, N Natarajan, C R Smart, G P Murphy
{"title":"Recent patterns of malignant melanoma patient care in the United States.","authors":"C Mettlin, C Karakousis, N Natarajan, C R Smart, G P Murphy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"215-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress in limb salvage for bone and soft-tissue sarcomas.","authors":"F R Eilber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"141-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advances in the treatment of testicular tumors.","authors":"R P Huben, J E Pontes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite impressive advances in the therapy of testis tumors, many controversies remain regarding the optimal therapy for each stage of disease. Primary cytoreductive chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for all advanced germ cell tumors, whether nonseminomatous or seminomatous. The distinction between seminomas and other germ cell tumors may be more historic than real. A unified staging system is desperately needed so that results of treatment modalities may be more easily compared, and the need for further multiinstitutional, randomized treatment protocols is also evident. With present treatment options, about 90% of all patients with germ cell tumors should be cured of their diseases, and aggressive efforts at early recognition and the development of newer therapies for relapsing patients are indicated. While further consideration of the long-term consequences of the various treatment modalities is necessary, any resultant modifications in treatment strategy cannot be at the expense of present cure rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"355-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17526765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bone replacement in surgery of bone tumors.","authors":"W Mnaymneh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75934,"journal":{"name":"International advances in surgical oncology","volume":"7 ","pages":"153-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17441905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}