[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.

[Cervical metastatic lymphnodes in laryngeal cancer patients following radiotherapy].

Analysis of the radiotherapy's failures in a form of metastatic lymph nodes was performed in the group of 373 laryngeal cancer patients. The authors point out that irradiation of large metastatic lymph nodes do not produce satisfying results. In the cases with supraglottic involvement there is a need of elective total neck irradiation.

[Cancer of the larynx in patients under 40 years of age].

440 patients with the plano-epithelial laryngeal cancer were radically treated by radiotherapy in Oncologic Department ZOZ in Lublin during the years 1976-1985. Among them were 23 (5.2%) "young" patients, aged below 40.

[Evaluation of post-irradiation reaction in patients after radiotherapy of laryngeal cancer].

The early and late local reactions after radiotherapy were evaluated by means of International Classification, in 345 laryngeal cancer patients. The positive correlation was found between the grade of reaction and radiation dose as so irradiated volume. The same tolerance was found in patients treated by X-therapy and cobalt teletherapy ++.

[Evaluation of radiotherapy failure in laryngeal cancer patients in several Polish medical centers during the years 1980-1982].

Analysis of the treatment failure was performed in the group of 634 laryngeal cancer patients treated by radiotherapy. It has been demonstrated that extensiveness of neoplasm and supraglottic region were disadvantageous as prognostic factors in radiotherapy patients.