Japan's Gold Plan emphasizes home care and the consumer.

Japan's population is increasingly weighted to the elderly. The health care system to date has relied on long institutional stays for their care, but a new plan--the Golden Plan--focuses on the importance of care at home, and care that the elderly desire.

[Cryosurgery of precancerous conditions of the oral cavity and pharynx].

In ENT Clinic, II Faculty of Medical Academy in Warszawa 108 patients with precancerous lesions were treated by cryosurgery during the years 1975-84. In 43 patients the lesions were in oral and in pharyngeal cavities, 33 out of 43 have had before the cryosurgery some form of therapy, conservative or radical without lasting effects. In all treated cryosurgically patients the positive results were obtained, which were consecutively verified during 3 to 9 years of observations.