[Changes in radiotherapy indication for early-stage operated endometrial cancer. Revised staging, predictive factors. Conclusions from our own results].

Optimal postoperative radiotherapy indications for early-stage operated endometrial cancers have drastically changed with the new imaging generation (magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography/computed tomography) and more detailed pathomorphology. The depth and growth of tumor invasion, presence or absence of the lymph node metastases, grading and lymphovascular invasion are the most important factors to predict the progression and to influence the prognosis. In 2016, on the basis of these, the European Gynecologist Oncology and Radiotherapy Society published a report in which they proposed unanimously indications for postoperative radio- and/or radiochemotherapy.

[The need for a paradigm shift in radiotherapy].

The status and indications of radiotherapy have significantly changed in the past decade because novel techniques, radiobiological research and major advances in informatics have made better local control possible. Using supplemented marking of the target volume with computer tomography based other image-making methods adapted made it possible to define the tumor and intact surrounding tissues more precisely. With novel radiotherapy techniques the dosage of the homogenity and the covering in the target volume can be raised optimally, especially with intensity modulated arc radiotherapy (volumetric modulated arc therapy) without causing radiation injury or damage to intact surrounding tissues.

[Potentiation of 5-fluorouracil efficacy. Molecular mechanisms playing a role in the cytotoxic action of 5-fluorouracil and 5-ethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EUdR) combination].

Unlabelled: Pharmacologic modulation of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) metabolism provides a possibility for the enhancement of its clinical efficacy.

Aim: The purpose of the present work was to study the effect of 5-ethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EUdR), a potent 5-FU modulator, on different molecular mechanisms, influenced by 5-FU itself, and to obtain further data about the mode of action of the combination.

Materials And Methods: SW620 cell line was used for the experiments.

Prognostic significance of the thymidylate biosynthetic enzymes in human colorectal tumors.

The aim of the present study was to determine the relative intratumoral activity of two pyrimidine biosynthetic enzymes, i.e. thymidylate synthase (TS) and thymidine kinase (TK), in human colorectal cancers to compare their possible relationship with demographic and pathologic characteristics of the patients and their tumors, and moreover to evaluate their predictive significance regarding 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) sensitivity and the overall survival of patients, respectively.