[The classification of postmastectomy edema of the upper extremity by a volumetric method].

An installation was developed to precisely evaluate size of the extremity by measuring volume of displaced liquid. A classification of postmastectomy edema of the arm was suggested.

[Pathomorphosis of cancer of the breast during thermoradiotherapy].

Local UHF-hyperthermia in combined therapy of breast cancer patients as compared to preoperative radiotherapy used alone, resulted in more noticeable therapeutic changes in a tumor. This fact was established during a study of tumor pathomorphosis in 206 patients with stage II breast cancer. A degree of therapeutic tumor pathomorphosis showed good correlation with the frequency and duration of a recurrence-free period of disease.

[Long-term results of the radical treatment of patients with breast cancer using sterno-axillary mastectomy].

2,023 patients with breast tumors of medial and central localization (aged up to 60 years) received radical treatment at the Institute and oncological dispensaries of the Republic in 1967-1981 (extensive mastectomy after Urban-Kholdin-680; mastectomy after Halsted-1,343). Extensive mastectomy appeared to considerably improve 5-year survival results in patients with T1-3NO, 1MO tumors.