Translocation: A Common Tumor Driver of Distinct Human Neoplasms.

Cancer is among the leading causes of mortality in developed countries due to limited available therapeutic modalities and high rate of morbidity. Although malignancies might show individual genetic landscapes, recurring aberrations in the neoplastic genome have been identified in the wide range of transformed cells. These include translocations of frequently affected loci of the human genetic material like the Ewing sarcoma breakpoint region 1 () of chromosome 22 that results in malignancies with mesodermal origin.

A European survey on the insights of patients living with metastatic colorectal cancer: the patient journey before, during and after diagnosis - an Eastern European perspective.

Background: Despite being highly preventable and treatable if diagnosed early, colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second leading cause of cancer-related death in Europe. Limited information is available from the patient perspective on the persisting unmet needs of the journey of the patient with CRC.

Objective: To capture European metastatic CRC (mCRC) patients' insights during the patient journey (prediagnosis; diagnosis; postdiagnosis) through a patient survey.

[Experience with cabazitaxel therapy for patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer in Hungary].

Our aim was to assess the efficacy and adverse effects of cabazitaxel (CBZ), a chemotherapeutic agent that can be administered to patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) after docetaxel (DOC) therapy. We retrospectively analyzed data of CBZ received by mCRPC patients in 12 Hungarian oncological centers between 01/2016 and 06/2017. CBZ (25 or 20 mg/m2 q3w) was administered after DOC.

[First Hungarian experience with pazopanib therapy for patients with metastatic renal cancer].

Pazopanib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is one of the new registered first-line therapeutic options in the treatment of metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma. Our aim was to evaluate the efficiency and toxicity of first-line pazopanib therapy administered for patients with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma with good- and medium prognosis according to MSKCC criteria. Between January and May, 2011, 24 patients have been treated with pazopanib in 8 oncology centers in Hungary, out of them 21 patients' data were analyzed.

[The treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer].

The last several years have seen extraordinary progress in the management of patients with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Although metastatic prostate cancer remains an incurable disease, substantial advances have been made in therapeutic options. Development of novel agents that modulate the androgen receptor pathway, growth factor signalling pathways, and immune function and bone targeting pathways has been the focus of therapeutic strategies because of its significance in the biology of prostate cancer progression.

[Pharmacologic therapy for neuroendocrine tumours].

Neuroendocrine tumours are heterogeneous and rare malignancies arising from endocrine cells located in various anatomical locations. Neuroendocrine tumours can be functional and may produce a wide variety of mediators, however, the majority of neuroendocrine tumours do not produce biologically active hormones (non-functioning tumours). On the basis of their pathological and biological characteristics they can be well differentiated as low malignant and poorly differentiated highly malignant tumours.

[The possibility of the use of MRI images in the three-dimensional external radiotherapy treatment planning].

Purpose: To review the application of MRI images in the radiation treatment planning,to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of MR imaging with respect to treatment planning, and to investigate the geometric distortion.

Methods: Humanoid therapy phantom was used for MRI and CT scanning, and distances between markers inside and on the surface of the phantom were measured in order to quantify the geometric distortion. The procedure of MRI/CT image fusion, which makes it possible to use the data of both imaging modalities for treatment planning, was described.

[Radiotherapy of MALT-lymphoma of the stomach].

Introduction: The stomach is the most common extranodal site of the low-grade MALT lymphoma. This lymphoma usually appears in elderly patients, with typically indolent signs. At the time of the diagnosis, the lymphoma is usually localized in the stomach and/or the adjacent lymph nodes.

[Diagnostic possibilities of positron emission tomography in oncologic pulmonology].

The authors present the possibilities of applying positron emission tomography (PET) in oncopulmonology. In addition to reviewing the literature, they share their own experience obtained during the diagnostic work-up and follow-up of twenty-three patients. The basic indications and the relevant properties of the most frequently used radiopharmaceuticals are discussed.

Successful treatment of a T1 cancer of the pancreatic head with high dose rate brachytherapy and external radiotherapy.

In this report, a unique case of a localized (T1N0M0) adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas is presented, which was successfully treated with interstitial high dose rate brachytherapy combined with percutan irradiation after biopsy. A total dose of 18 Gy was delivered with brachytherapy (6 Gy per fraction on three consecutive days) to the tumor via after-loading catheter. Brachytherapy was followed by external radiotherapy, delivering an additional dose of 46 Gy (18 MV-x) with four-field technique using conventional fractionation (2 Gy/day).