Ipsilateral axillary recurrence after breast conservative surgery: The protective effect of whole breast radiotherapy.

Background And Purpose: Whole breast radiotherapy (WBRT) is one of the possible reasons for the low rate of axillary recurrence after breast-conserving surgery (BCS).

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively collected data from 4,129 consecutive patients with breast cancer ⩽2cm and negative sentinel lymph node who underwent BCS between 1997 and 2007. We compared the risk of axillary lymph node recurrence between patients treated by WBRT (n=2939) and patients who received partial breast irradiation (PBI; n=1,190) performed by a single dose of electron intraoperative radiotherapy.

Acute radiation dermatitis in breast cancer: topical therapy with vitamin E acetate in lipophilic gel base.

Background: Radiotherapy can cause adverse skin reactions over the course of their treatment. Currently, management is based on several tropical products although there is no gold-standard approach to prevention and management of radiation toxicity.

Method: We report our experience of vitamin E acetate in the treatment of radiation dermatitis in breast cancer patients who experienced grade 4 side effects (according to Radiation Therapy Oncology Group criteria).

[Chemotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy in patients with limited small cell lung carcinoma].

62 patients with a limited small cell lung cancer were randomly qualified into two groups. 32 patients of the first group were treated only with the chemotherapy regimen, consisted of three drugs (Carboplatine, Etoposide and Vincristine administered in 6 courses, on regular, 3-weeks basis). The second group of 30 patients had been treated with the identical chemotherapy schedule, but alternatively combined with a primary site irradiation in a total dose of 40Gy, applied in parts after the chemotherapy courses 2, 3, and 4.

Primary cancer of the fallopian tube. Report of 26 patients.

Background: Due to rarity of fallopian tube cancer most series on this tumor are small and many problems have remained unsolved. The aim of this report is to review our experience with this neoplasm and to compare it with previously published data.

Methods: Retrospective study of 26 patients with fallopian tube cancer treated in one institution between 1974 and 1994.

Sarcoma of the uterus. A clinical study of 42 patients.

Records of 42 patients with a diagnosis of uterine sarcoma treated between 1974 and 1995 at the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk have been reviewed. There were 15 cases of leiomyosarcoma, 14 cases of carcinosarcoma (malignant mixed mesodermal tumor) and 13 cases of endometrial stromal sarcoma. There were 24 FIGO stage I patients, 3 stage II patients, 7 stage III patients and 8 stage IV patients.