Therapeutic management and outcome of locoregional recurrence after curative colorectal cancer therapy-a single-center analysis.

Locoregional tumor recurrence after curative therapy for colorectal cancer is therapeutically challenging and associated with poor prognosis. Goal of this single-center study was to analyze patients with locoregional recurrence with regard to therapeutic strategies and outcome for colon and rectal cancer each. Charts of all patients surgically treated for colorectal cancer in the period from 2000 to 2011 (n = 1296) were examined; patients with locoregional recurrence (n = 86) were then further analyzed.

[Consensus diagnosis and therapy of soft tissue sarcoma].

Soft tissue sarcomas are heterogeneous tumours and relatively uncommon. There have been advances over the past years concerning pathology, clinical behaviour, diagnosis strategies and the treatment. To summarize these advances as well as making it public is one of the goals of the following consensus guidelines.

Cervical cancer associated with genital prolapse--a brief review of the literature and long-term results of successful treatment with radiochemotherapy and surgery in a very frail patient.

Background: A case of cervical cancer associated with irreducible procidentia successfully treated with external beam radiation and extracorporeal HDR-AL with concomitant chemotherapy followed by obliterative vaginal surgery is reported for the first time.

Case: A 73-year-old woman presented in frail condition suffering from a huge, irreducible uterovaginal procidentia combined with a squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix in FIGO Stage IIa. Successful treatment consisted of sequential application of combined radiotherapy with concurrent cisplatin chemotherapy followed by total vaginal hysterectomy and partial colpectomy with colpocleisis according to the Labhardt method.