The role systematic lymphadenectomy plays in determining the survival outcome for advanced ovarian cancer patients: a meta-analysis.

Background: This study aims to evaluate the role systematic lymphadenectomy (SL) p l a y s in advanced ovarian cancer (OC) patients. A meta-analysis was done to compare the progression-free survival (PFS) rates and overall survival (OS) rates between SL and unsystematic lymphadenectomy (USL).

Methods: An extensive literature search from the dates of January 1, 1994, to today was performed.

[External beam radiation in treatment of subfoveal vascularized pigment epithelium detachment in age-related macular degeneration. Long-term results of a pilot study].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the evaluation of long-term external beam radiation treatment in patients with subfoveal occult choroidal neovessels complicated with pigment epithelium detachment in age-related macular degeneration.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study of ten patients with a mean age of 75 years and a mean follow-up of 18.7 months.

[Comparative study of beta irradiation (106Ru/106Rh) and gamma irradiation (125I) on the rabbit eye].

We compared beta irradiation (106Ru/106Rh) to gamma irradiation (125I) on the normal rabbit eye, using ophthalmic plaques to deliver doses similar to those recommended in man for choroidal melanoma treatment. A detailed dosimetry was performed and the animals were followed up by clinical and histological examinations during 1 year. The mean total doses were either comparable, or larger with iodine-125, but the globes treated with ruthenium-106 exhibited more damaging effects: total destruction of the chorioretina on the plaque site, abnormalities of the retinal vessels and of the close nerve fiber layers, cavernous atrophy of the optic nerve.

[Long-term results of cobalt 60 curietherapy for uveal melanoma].

Purpose: To analyze 65 patients with uveal melanomas treated with cobalt plaque therapy with regards to mortality, visual results and complications.

Patients And Methods: Most of the melanomas were large (T3: 52.5%), with a mean largest dimension of the base of 11 mm, and a mean thickness of 6 mm.

[Radiotherapy of stage T1-T2 M0 prostatic adenocarcinoma. Analysis of the carcinologic results of a multicenter study of 610 patients. Groupe Radiothérapie de la Commission de Coopération Médicale Intercentres (CCMI)].

Purpose: Retrospective analysis of the results of radiotherapy in localized prostatic adenocarcinoma. Complications were excluded.

Patients And Methods: Six-hundred-and-ten T1-T2 adenocarcinomas of the prostate were treated with continuous courses of external beam radiation therapy in 19 participating Institutes between January 1983 and January 1988.