Organizational aspects of breast cancer screening in Sarajevo region.

Purpose: To analyze basic parameters of success and organizational aspects of screening for breast cancer implemented in the Sarajevo Canton area during the period 2000- 2006 and, based on the acquired experience, to suggest the most adequate model of screening in order to create a continuing and efficient constituent part of the population healthcare system.

Patients And Methods: Out of 30,134 women of the target age group 45-55 years, an invitation was delivered to 27,473 of them. 16,085 (53.

Randomized phase II study of induction chemotherapy with gemcitabine plus cisplatin followed by sequential radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Purpose: This randomized phase II trial was conducted to compare the overall response rate (ORR) of gemcitabine plus cisplatin combination followed by sequential radiotherapy (RT) (arm A) versus RT alone (arm B) in chemonaive patients with stage IIIA or IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Secondary objectives were to evaluate time to progressive disease (TTPD), overall survival, and treatment tolerability in both arms.

Patients And Methods: Eligible patients were required to have stage IIIA or stage IIIB NSCLC, no previous chemotherapy, ECOG performance status of 0-2, bidimensionally measurable disease, and age 18 to 75 years.

[Post-radiation fibrosis of the lung].

The lung fibrosis after irradiation of lung cancer is described in this paper, as well as pathologic physiology, clinical signs and symptoms, and radiographic changes. Carefully treatment planning using CT scans, simulator and computer planning system is the only way to prevent excessive irradiation of the lung and correspondent lung fibrosis.

[Combined modalities in the treatment of limited small cell lung cancer].

A combined modalities approach--radiotherapy plus chemotherapy to the treatment of limited small cell lung cancer are presented. There are three strategies for the treatment: sequential, concurrent and alternative therapy. Concurrent and alternative appear to be preferred.

[95 years' of radiology in Sarajevo].

The development of the radiology in Sarajevo from its beginning in "Zemaljska bolnica", 3-4 years after Rontgen's epochal finding of X-rays, till now has been reviewed in this paper. Equal and parallel development of the diagnostic radiology, as well as radiotherapy is given chronologically, regarding the stuff, equipment and premises. This is referred to the period before and after The Second World War till 1973, when--after stagnation--radiology started developing relatively quickly.