Prospective assessment of quality of life of female cancer patients.

Objective: The aims of this study were to compare the quality of life (QOL) of women with different cancer sites; to identify predictors of QOL; and to examine the agreement between patient self-reported QOL and QOL ratings provided by clinicians and significant others.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted including 248 patients with gynecologic and breast cancer. QOL data were collected at six time points before, during, and after treatment, using the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the Spitzer QL index (QL-I).

[Cerebral infarct and hemorrhage in patients with sickle cell disease].

Two sickle cell patients with cerebral accidents, infarct and bleeding, are presented. Up to 15% of all sickle cell patients suffer cerebral events, 75% of which are infarcts, 25% intracranial hemorrhages. Infarcts occur predominantly in children with a clustering around age 7, while bleeding predominates in adult life.

[A case of strabismus concomitans convergens alternans acutus].

In the present paper the authors report on a case of acute concomitant squint in a 14-year-old girl. A study of the patient's history revealed only psychosomatic factors as possible causes.