Clinical results of medium dose rate brachytherapy combined with external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced cervical carcinoma.

Purpose: To evaluate the overall and disease-free survival of patients with advanced cervical carcinoma (FIGO stages IIB-IIIB) treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and medium dose rate brachytherapy (MDR-BT) plus/minus surgery.

Patients And Methods: One hundred and seven patients received preoperative RT (group A) and 154 were treated with definitive RT (group B); 73 patients in both groups also received cisplatin as radiosensitizer. EBRT delivered as preoperative reached a total dose of 44-46 Gy/pelvis, whereas the definitive RT reached a total dose of 62-64 Gy with standard fractionation.

[Current therapeutic management in retinoblastoma with invasion of the optic nerve--a case report].

Introduction: Retinoblastoma is the most frequent primitive intraocular tumour in children. The extension of retinoblastoma at the optic nerve level gives a dark prognosis implying a complex treatment and a long period of supervision.

Observation: An eleven-months-old child, female, is taken in the hospital with the suspicion of retinoblastoma left eye.

[Carcinomas of the inner canthus--combined treatment].

It is described a therapeutical protocol which combines surgery and radiotherapy in a "particular" way for carcinomas of the medial palpebral canthus. This consist of a surgical excision of tumors without covering the denuded area after 2-3 weeks of external radiotherapy--Chaoul type.

[Controversies connected with the therapeutic approach in palpebral epitheliomas].

Objective: We try to clarify some controversies related to the palpebral epitheliomas, controversies related to the therapeutical applied attitude (surgery, radiotherapy or the association of the two therapeutical methods), to the indications and contraindications of their application.

Material And Method: It is a review study of the Military Hospital and Oncologic Institute Cluj-Napoca casuistry between 1984-1994, which comprises 244 patients with palpebral epitheliomas, histologically confirmed. This casuistry was followed taking into consideration the age, sex, histological type, anatomo clinical presentation, TNM clinical stage, the localisation of the tumor, the type of the applied treatment, complications, healing and the therapeutical failures.