Cluster survey for vaccination coverage in Sohag Governorate, October 1989.

This cluster survey for vaccination coverage in Sohag Governorate was carried out for the six vaccine preventable diseases in children below 2 years and tetanus toxoid for pregnant mothers. It reveals that vaccination coverage in Sohag is still far below the universal child immunization goal of 80% coverage by the year 1990. Fully vaccinated children were 17.

Ten years' experience with a multimodality treatment of advanced stages of rectal cancer.

Patients with inoperable rectal cancer have a remote chance of 5-year survival. In an attempt to improve this poor prognosis a combined radiochemotherapeutic regimen in a split form followed by long term chemotherapy maintenance was used in their management. From January 1971 until December 1980, three categories of patients were so treated.

Carcinoma of the urinary bladder T3NxMo treated by preoperative irradiation followed by simple cystectomy.

One hundred eighty-three patients with bladder cancer category T3NxMo (the diameter of the primary exceeding 5 cm), were treated by preoperative 40 Gy and simple cystectomy. Using only pretreatment information, the group with the best prognosis was characterized by a T3A-growth with a normal intravenous pyelography, with about a 75% cure rate. Before cystectomy, after irradiation the combination of a clinically assessed radiation-downstaged growth (T40GY less than 3) with normal urography, predicted the best chance of cure at about 80%.