Development and use of a computer system in a radiotherapy department: SISGRAD.

SISGRAD, the interactive computer system of the Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Center Radiotherapy Department, has been operational since January 1982. It completes the computerized dosimetry system installed several years earlier and is fully integrated with the institution's central network. SISGRAD is in charge of surveillance of the radiotherapy treatments given by the Center's three radiotherapy units (1400 patients per year); it is also used for administrative purposes in the Department and physically connects all of the Department's operating stations.

Pulmonary toxicity of a combination of low-dose doxorubicin and irradiation for inoperable lung cancer.

In 1980, 27 patients with inoperable lung cancer (26 non-oat cell, one oat cell) were treated by split-course irradiation (40 Gy/10 fractions) plus concomitant low-dose chemotherapy (doxorubicin 10 mg/m2). Twenty-four of the 27 patients received the entire treatment course. Fifteen of the 27 patients were administered various chemotherapy protocols after a period of one month.

[Conservative treatment of cancer of the breast. Apropos of 108 cases].

Between 1975 and 1980, 108 cancers of the breast (T1 and small T2) were treated by associated conservative surgery and radiotherapy. Axillary glands were curetted in 92 patients; 17% showed lymph node invasion. Radiotherapy was by telecobalt: 45 grays to the whole breast and 60 grays to the tumor bed.

Conservative treatment of breast cancer: a report on 108 patients.

Between 1975 and 1980, 108 breast cancers (T1 and small T2) were treated at the Centre Antoine-Lacassagne (Nice, France) by a combination of conservative surgery and irradiation. Ninety-two of these patients underwent axillary node dissection; 17% of them presented with nodal involvement. All irradiation was given by telecobalt: 45 Gy to the entire breast, 60 Gy to the site of the tumor.