[Intra-arterial chemotherapy in locally advanced or recurrent breast neoplasms].

Intraarterial chemotherapy is studied as an alternative procedure for the neoadjuvant treatment of locally advanced and recurrent breast cancer. Our study was aimed at investigating the feasibility, the toxicity and the local response rate of an intraarterial chemotherapy regimen including 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin and mitomycin. These drugs were administered angiographically into the subclavian and internal mammary arteries ipsilateral to the lesion.

Early colorectal cancer--follow-up after endoscopic polypectomy.

Approximately 90% of correctly indicated endoscopic polypectomies for early colorectal cancer, whether invasive or not, are curative, provided strict criteria are adopted in the pathological evaluation of the resected specimen. Unrestricted time surveillance is mandatory since benign (more frequent) or malignant relapses appear in 30-40% of the patients.