The Lexical Association Technique: A randomized controlled trial with breast cancer patients.

Low self-esteem is a vulnerability factor for depressive disorders, and the prevention of psychological disorders is essential in cancer patients. The enhancement of self-esteem in breast cancer patients may therefore be an appropriate clinical target. Previous studies have shown the efficacy of the Lexical Association Technique to enhance self-esteem in healthy subjects.

[Retrospective analysis of 108 ductal carcinomas in situ of the breast treated by radiosurgery association].

Purpose: To evaluate survival and prognostic factors of 108 patients with clinically or mammographically detected ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), treated from 1980 to 1996 by complete local excision followed by external irradiation.

Patients And Methods: The median age was 51 (range 37-80). All the patients underwent surgery consisting of a wide resection of the mammary gland harbouring the tumour.

Concomitant chemoradiotherapy in pyriform sinus carcinoma.

Objectives: To test the effectiveness of concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with pyriform sinus carcinoma and to demonstrate the feasibility of an organ preservation approach.

Design: Clinical trial phase 2.

Setting: University Hospital Center, St-Etienne, France.

Fast growing cervical carcinomas. A retrospective analysis of 20 IB-IIB FIGO.

Introduction: Fast growing cervix carcinomas have a pejorative outcome: they may occur quickly after cervical smears qualified as normal - within an interval from 12 to 18 months in women less than 50 years old, and involveing the endocervix. This retrospective analysis is aimed at assessing 5-year outcomes.

Materials And Methods: Twenty cases of fast-growing cancer of the uterine cervix classified according to the FIGO clinical staging system as IB (n=14), IIA (3), and IIB (3), have been reviewed and compared to a cohort of 160 cases not having this feature.

Pathological prognostic factors in a series of 137 stage I TNM/UICC endometrial carcinomas.

Purpose: We report on the long-term results of combination surgery-radiotherapy in cT1 carcinoma of the endometrium according to prognostic factors.

Patients And Methods: From 1974 to 1993, 130 women suffering from cT1Nx-O Mo endometrial carcinoma, underwent surgical resection. The median age was 62 years.