[Acute radiation reaction and its healing time after skin cancer radiotherapy in elderly patients].

In group of 106 patients over 70 with skin cancer radiation-induced reaction and its healing time were evaluated. Mean age was 78.3 years.

[Activity of isocitrate dehydrogenase in breast cancer].

The activity of isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) was studied in the tissue of breast cancer and in the blood serum of the women suffering from this neoplasm. The comparative material was the physiological tissue of mammae and blood serum of the healthy women. The activity of ICDH in neoplasm tissue was more higher than in physiological tissue.

[Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia (Castelman's disease) in an adult woman].

Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia Castleman's disease) is a rare disorder of unclear etiology and wide spectrum of systemic symptoms. This report describes a case of this disorder of hyalinovascular type in 45-years old woman. The lesions were localized in axillary lymph nodes.

[The value of inductive chemotherapy in radiation treatment of advanced neoplasms of the head and neck].

The value of inductive chemotherapy preceding the radical irradiation of locally advanced neoplasms of the head and neck has been estimated. The following have been applied: cisplatin, adriamycin, bleomycin. A reaction to treatment in the form of CR and PR has been achieved in 80% of the treated patients.

[Comparison of two irradiation methods for laryngeal carcinoma in the second degree of clinical progression].

Two methods of irradiation of larynx carcinoma have been compared: conventional dose fractionation and hyperfractionation. The first consisted in irradiating once a day a dose of 2.2 GY to the complete dose of 70 Gy to 77 Gy, and the other in applying two fractions daily, 1.