[Experience in the treatment of pancreatic cancer].

Survival was followed in 143 cases of morphologically verified cancer of the pancreas and major duodenal papilla after surgical, radiation, cytostatic and combined treatment. Survival rates after radiation and complex chemoradiation treatment were shown to be close to those after radical surgery within the first two years of follow-up. However, only radically-operated patients survived at longer stages.

[Early detection and results of therapy of malignant tumours of the rectum and sigmoid colon (author's transl)].

An analysis of statistical data indicates 0 growth of incidence and high percentage of advanced cases of rectum and colon cancer. The mean duration of preoperative history of rectum cancer comprises 8,9 months. The main causes of late diagnosis included the patients' unawareness of the symptoms of the lesion, and the defects of examinations performed in out-patient clinics.