Consensus on treatment of endometrium carcinoma with brachytherapy.

Radiotherapy (RT) is commonly used as adjuvant treatment following hysterectomy and double oophorectomy in endometrial carcinoma. Prophylactic vaginal brachytherapy (BT) is the most common treatment in BT units. The PORTEC and GOG 99 studies have attempted to clarify the indications of BT and postoperative external RT, changing treatment standards.

[Neoadjuvant treatment with cisplatin, 5-FU and folinic acid in advanced head and neck cancer].

From May to February 1992, 32 patients diagnosed as advanced cancer of the head and neck were included in a program of neoadjuvant treatment with cisplatin, 5-FU, and folinic acid, followed by radiotherapy (45 at 70 Gy) and/or surgery. Twenty patients were considered fully evaluable; their global response rate was 75% (7 complete responses and 8 partial responses). Five patients had no appreciable response or progression.

[Semantic information. Internal language. Thinking].

Semantic information has reached an objective condition after a lengthy history of semantic inquiries that instrumental neurophysiological devices--such as event-related potentials, electroencephalographic spectral analysis, regional brain circulation, PET scan, deep brain electrodes, and other--have made easier. In turn, internal language, as screened according to Vigotsky's perspective, is considered a product of semantic information circulation understood as neurosemae interconnection. Finally, in normal adults, thinking processes are assumed to be made up by both sensoperceptive information (proprioceptive information included) and semantic information.