Lower Risk of Cancer in the Areas Inhabited by the German Minority in the Region of Opole, Poland.

Background: The lower risk of cancer in the areas inhabited by the German minority in the region of Opole, Poland, at the turn of the 1980's and 1990's has been already reported. A reanalysis of the present-day data was conducted.

Patients And Methods: All the cancer cases (at all sites combined) registered within the years 2008-2012 with data collected by the Regional Cancer Registry in Opole were analyzed in this study.

Acute toxicity of robotic ultrahypofractionated radiotherapy CyberKnifeTM in prostate cancer patients.

Our purpose was to evaluate the toxicity of CyberKnifeTM based fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) in prostate cancer patients. One-hunred-thirty-two men with low (62) and intermediate (70) prostate cancer were enrolled in our prospective study. Mean age was 69.

Partial-Body Irradiation in Patients with Prostate Cancer Treated with IMRT Has Little Effect on the Composition of Serum Proteome.

Partial body irradiation during cancer radiotherapy (RT) induces a response of irradiated tissues that could be observed at the level of serum proteome. Here we aimed to characterize the response to RT in group of patients treated because of prostate cancer. Five consecutive blood samples were collected before, during, and after the end of RT in a group of 126 patients who received definitive treatment with a maximum dose of 76 Gy.

Interrelation between population density and cancer incidence in the province of Opole, Poland.

Aim Of The Study: In this study, we present the results of the interrelation between population density and cancer incidence in the Province of Opole, Poland.

Material And Methods: The material included demographic data from the Statistical Office in Opole and oncology information obtained from the Cancer Registry in Opole - both research series encompass the five-year plan (years 2006-2010). A geostatistic analysis was performed using a spatial model (called the conditional autoregressive model).

Unemployment and lung cancer incidence in the Province of Opole. Brief report.

In this geostatistical analysis we present the results of interrelation between unemployment rate and lung cancer incidence ratios in the Province of Opole, Poland. In the study, unemployment statistics and population data were analyzed together with the registered (histopathologically confirmed) lung cancer cases (C34, ICD10) in sex-stratified working age population (18-65 years). The data were collected in the years 2006-2008 in the Statistical Office in Opole and Opole Cancer Registry, Poland.