[Quality assurance, audit and quality control of radiotherapy at radiology departments in Hungary].

The first quality assurance, audit and control system in the Hungarian "'health" care industry" is described for the medical specialty of radiotherapy. The prerequisites of the elaboration of the programme were an exact knowledge of the current Hungarian infrastructural and staffing conditions, and the radiotherapeutic activities. The recommendations cover the 5 medical universities including the national institute (the Debrecen, Pécs, Semmelweis, Szent-Györgyk Albert Medical Universities, and Haynal Imre University of Health Sciences) and the 5 regional oncological centres in hospitals (Jósa András, Markusovszky, Petz Aladár, Szentpéteri kapu and Uzsoki Hospitals).

Adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of the breast.

The authors reviewed the adjuvant chemotherapeutical treatment after operation of the breast cancer. At their department 6 cycles CMF doses were given to the node positive premenopausal patients. In order to analyse the results a control group was set up.

[Adjuvant endocrine therapy--Zitazonium--in breast cancer].

The authors deal with the problems of adjuvant therapy of breast cancer. They administrated Zitazonium in those postmenopausal women who had had positive axillary lymph nodes. In the course of analyzing the results, they calculated survival and tumor free survival with "life-table" method, while they used log-rank probe and Mantel-Haenzel X2 probe for showing significance between the diagrams.