Disaster Medicine Education for Israeli Medical Response Teams to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis.

Introduction: Disaster Medicine (DM) requires skills, knowledge, and prior experience that are rarely put to test by health care providers. Pediatric DM presents unique challenges in terms of both knowledge and practice.

Methods: An anonymous survey consisting of demographic and five-point Likert scale questions was administered to physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel from Israel's major medical emergency teams who were deployed to respond to the refugee crisis in Ukraine.

Combined treatment modalities in Pancoast tumor: results of a monocentric retrospective study.

Background: A retrospective monocentric study of consecutive patients with superior sulcus tumor non-small cell lung cancer (SS-NSCLC), treated by induction concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT), article management.

Methods: From 1994 to 2005, 36 patients (15 T3, 21 T4 tumors, including N2-N3 node involvement) received induction CRT with cisplatin/vinorelbine/fluorouracil combined with 44 Gy radiotherapy (5 daily 2 Gy fractions/week). After CRT completion, RECIST evaluation and operability were assessed.

Early CYFRA 21-1 variation predicts tumor response to chemotherapy and survival in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients.

We have evaluated CYFRA 21-1 serum level variations as an indicator of tumor response and survival in 44 consecutive patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with induction chemotherapy (IC). Irrespective of the initial CYFRA 21-1 serum concentration, a more than 65% decrease in the serum level after the first chemotherapy course was significantly predictive of an objective tumor response (p = 0.0022).