A real-time system to report abnormal events involving staff in a nuclear medicine therapy unit.

A system for internal and voluntary reporting of abnormal events in a Nuclear Medicine Therapy Unit is described. This system is based on the Internet of Things and is composed of an application for mobile devices and a wireless network of detectors. The application is addressed to healthcare professionals and is intended to be a user-friendly tool to make the reporting procedure little laborious.

[Exclusive radiotherapy of stage Ib cervix carcinoma].

From January 1st 1970 to December 31 1987, 178 consecutive cervical cancer Ib patients were treated at the Istituto del Radio, University of Brescia, by means of radiotherapy alone. In spite of the negative selection of the patients (advanced age, poor general conditions, associated pathologies) the results were good: 5-year cumulative survival was 86.5%, with a total failure rate of 13.

[Recurrence of bronchial cancer after surgery. Radiologic data].

The post-surgical malignant recurrences of bronchogenic cancer may be classified as local, regional, locoregional. The present series is based on 115 patients observed in 1982-1987. In all of them a tumour recurrence was clinically and/or radiologically suspected: the histological findings or the follow-up confirmed such a diagnosis in 52 cases.

Bladder cancer prognostic indices: analysis of 286 patients treated with radical radiation therapy.

From 1974 through 1982, 286 patients with histologically proven bladder cancer (Tis 8, T1 62, T2 109, T3 86, T4 21 NXMO) were treated with external irradiation after transurethral resection. Irradiation was given with 260 degrees arc technique photon beam from a Cobalt Unit; the tumor doses ranged from 52.5 to 65 Gy in 21-50 days, with a TDF between 75 and 110.