[Are there limits to conservative treatment of breast cancer?].

For nearly 40 years, a multidisciplinary team working in a private clinic has used a conservative approach to breast cancer for small tumours, i.e. T1-T2.

[Long-term results of radio-surgical treatment of operable carcinoma of the cervix uteri].

Four hundred and fifteen women, treated in our institution from 1961 to 1987 for operable carcinoma of the cervix stage I or II, had a radical hysterectomy with pelvic node dissection. Radiotherapy was associated with this surgery in most cases: 90% of the patients received endocavitary radiation, and 30% external radiotherapy, either pre- or post-operatively, in the case of bad prognostic factors. Median follow up was 7 years; overall survival was 77% at 10 years; the rate of local failure is low (36 cases/415 = 8.

The second ten years: long-term risks of breast conservation in early breast cancer.

A retrospective cooperative study was undertaken to analyze the fate of 300 clinical Stage I and II breast cancer patients who were alive and apparently cured with both breasts preserved, 10 years following primary limited surgery with irradiation. All patients had been treated by tumor excision, with or without axillary dissection, followed by megavoltage radiation therapy. Follow-up ranged from 10.

Conservation treatment of early breast cancer: long term results and complications.

Results of radiation therapy following breast-conserving surgery were analyzed for 410 patients with clinical Stage I-II mammary carcinoma having a minimum and median follow-up time of 5 years and 11 years, respectively. Crude survival rates were 82.2% at 5 years, 62.

[Value of radiotherapy in the treatment of prostatic cancers in the initial stages. Apropos of 111 cases].

The authors report on their experience with high energy radiation therapy in early-stage (I/II) carcinomas of the prostate. Among 191 cases of biopsy-proved carcinomas of the prostate, there were 111 stage I and II tumors, including 83 T1, T2 intracapsular tumors. 78 of the 111 patients received curative radiation therapy.

[Proposal for a surgical evaluation index card for ovarian cancers].

The authors propose a computer card for registering the main information required in the management of ovarian cancers. The data include a detailed description of the lesions noted at operation, the surgical procedure, and postoperative lesions. They concern both the initial laparotomy and any second-look operations.

[Results of radiotherapy of 406 carcinomas of the cervix (T2 distal and T3). Comparison between classical irradiation in one phase and split-course irradiation (author's transl)].

Between 1963 and 1971, a total of 406 inoperable cases of cervical cancer were treated by high-dose radiotherapy at the Centre René-Huguenin. Most of the patients (243) were irradiated by continuous therapy. In the other group (163) there was a 3-week interval in the middle of the treatment.

[Time factor in local radiotherapy (author's transl)].

This study was aimed at determining the influence of time factor in local radiotherapy in patients with spindle cell neoplasms of the skin or basal cell carcinomas of the face, treatable in a single plane. These neoplasma were treated using identical doses (6,000 rads distributed over the envelope isodose), but divided at random into two groups corresponsing to two different spreads (60 +/- 12 hours and 156 +/- 12 hours). The biological effects observed (rate of disappearance of the lesion, intensity of skin reaction, duration of skin reaction) showed no difference between the two types of treatment.