Cancer education in Ukraine.

The main features of the system of 'higher medical education' in Ukraine are presented. The principles of undergraduate, specialist training, and postgraduate education on oncology are described in detail and discussed in terms of European standards of cancer education. It is underlined that the cancer education in the system of higher and postgraduate education should be continuous, multidisciplinary, and of high quality.

[Circulatory changes in acute myocardial ischemia in dogs with experimental diabetes mellitus].

On alloxane-diabetic dogs under chloralose anaesthesia without opening the chest catheterization, extracorporal perfusion and resistography of coronary arteries, catheterization and continuous drainage of coronary sinus, catheterization of major vessels and heart chambers were performed. Acute myocardial ischemia was induced by the 60 s cessation of left circumflex coronary artery extracorporal perfusion. The magnitude and peculiarity of the systemic circulation reactions during acute myocardial ischemia in dogs with moderate and mild hyperglycemia (less than 12 mmol/l), didn't differ from those in control group.

[The effect of insulin on cardiac activity and on the coronary and systemic circulations].

The studies were performed on healthy closed-chest chloralose-anaesthetized dogs using catheterization, extracorporal perfusion and resistography of coronary arteries and catheterization and continuous drainage of the coronary sinus. Insulin (0.1 and 1.

[Changes in the function and energy metabolism of the myocardium in experimental diabetes mellitus in dogs].

Coronary arteries, coronary sinus, heart cavities, and great vessels were catheterized in anesthetized dogs with alloxan diabetes. Cardiac contractility, coronary and systemic circulation, myocardial energy metabolism and acid-base balance were studied. It was shown that the alterations of the cardiac function occurred in experimental dogs with severe diabetes mellitus.