[Multimodality treatment outcome of invasive thymomas].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to analyze the progression of invasive thymomas associated with myasthenia gravis, after the resection and the progression of unresectable invasive thymomas with a combined chemoradiotherapy. The study was performed on two groups of patients: 8 patients with invasive thymomas and myasthenia gravis operated at the 3rd Surgical Clinic between 1986-1999; 4 patients with unresectable invasive thymomas treated at the Radiology-Oncology Clinic by combined chemoradiotherapy, between 1993-1998. The results are presented for each group of patients, separately.

[A practical study of the absorbed doses at the level of the organs at risk during the radiotherapy of bronchopulmonary cancer].

The radiotherapy of lung cancer with curative total doses (56-60 Gy), is limited by the presence of critical organs (esophagus, spinal cord). The use of computed TPS (Therapy Planning System) allows to the radiotherapist to calculate the values and to obtain dose distribution to the organs at risk, in the limit of biological tolerance levels. In our work, we present the calculation of the absorbed doses of Co60, at the spinal cord, at a patient with a cancer of the right lung, during irradiation.

[The use of hyperfractionated radiotherapy in soft-tissue sarcomas].

In classical irradiation, the local control can be negatively influenced by the accelerated clonogenic tumoral repopulation. A modality of control of this phenomenon can be accelerated hyperfractionated irradiation. The aim of this paper is the study of the effect of this type of irradiation in soft tissue sarcomas on patients of the Radiological-Oncological Clinic Iaşi.

[The antiemetic action of tropisetron (Navoban) in the cytostatic treatment of neoplastic diseases].

The most frequent side effects of chemotherapy are nausea and vomiting. This issue is a clinical analysis of the protective effect of a 5HT3 antagonist (Navoban-R; Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Basel, Switzerland) against chemotherapy--induced emesis (especially with the most emetic cytostatics--cisplatin and dacarbazine).

[The psychosocial aspects of female patients with genital cancer].

Revealing a diagnosis as cancer, usually generates various emotional and psychosocial response in the patients: anxiety, negation of reality, passivity and generalized state of shock and anguish; long term projects and personal responsibilities are annihilated, the image of death grows enormously. Genital cancer women patients also exhibits sexual problems which can seriously complicate the psychic representation of disease and impair family life. Our study comprised 20 women patients who were hospitalized, with genital cancer diagnosis (ovarian cancer, neoplasms of the cervix and of the endometrium); by anamnesis and further discussions we tried to establish the main elements which generated different psychologic reactions.