[Role of screening as an index of predictability in the early diagnosis of nonpalpable lesions of the breast].

The Authors, on the basis of their personal experience and supported by more significative data from the international literature, underline the validity of the screening in detecting non palpable lesions of the breast. They conclude by asserting that mortality for breast cancer may be further reduced if more and more women undergo screening programmes.

[Prognostic factors in gastric cancer. A clinical contribution].

The Authors, after pointing out how incidence of gastric cancer has been reducing last decades, dwell upon environmental and genetic factors that may be linked to the occurrence of such neoplasia. After reporting the data of a retrospective study, they consider the survival rates related to the clinical stage and site of the tumor as well as the therapeutic treatment adopted. They conclude that, even though today gastric cancer is a neoplasia with a still unfavourable prognosis, an early diagnosis and a proper therapeutic procedure may give sufficient guarantees of success.

[Clinico-therapeutic considerations on primary gastric lymphoma].

The Authors report four cases of primary gastric lymphomas. They stress the anatomopathological, clinical and therapeutic problems related to this disease because, at present, they are still discussed.