Volume, staging and grading of gastro-intestinal carcinoma--a population-based study.

All cases of the Regional Cancer Registry, North Baden who developed a gastro-intestinal cancer during the period 1975-1980 were re-examined according to the following parameters: tumor volume, pT stage, pN stage, grading. In the period considered, 8424 cases out of 14,061 cases with histologically proven gastrointestinal cancer could be grouped according to the pT stage. Most of the cases were operated at the pT2 or pT3 stage.

[Population based data in North Baden on malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract].

Population-based data of malignomas of the gastro-intestinal tract were evaluated from the regional cancer registry North-Baden for the period of 1971-1980. The age standardized incidence of oesophagus carcinomas shows a steady level of 4.5/100,000 (males) and 0.

[Unusual course of morbus Hodgkin during remission of acute lymphatic leukemia].

6 years after the beginning of acute lymphatic leukemia and 3 years after the end of its therapy M. Hodgkin stage Ia was diagnosed in a then 18-years-old girl. From the same location--left neck--enlarged lymph nodes had been removed already during the maintenance therapy of leukemia.