[The local immunity status of breast cancer patients depending on the level of estrogen receptors in the tumor].

Studies of local immunity in breast cancer patients were performed in relation to its dependence on tumor levels of estrogen receptors. They demonstrated that progression of breast cancer depends much on the presence of estrogen receptors which occur in 33% of premenopausal and in 68.3% of postmenopausal women; local humoral immunity depends on hormonal presentation of the tumor.

[Phagotherapy of postoperative suppurative-inflammatory complications in patients with neoplasms].

The authors assess the efficacy of phage therapy ofsuppurative and inflammatory complications in oncological patients. A clinical and laboratory analysis has involved 131 patients whose etiotropic therapy consisted of bacteriophages (65 patients) and antibiotics (66). Medicinal phages, manufactured by the Tbilisi Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, have been administered according to 3 schemes: (1) parallel with antibiotics, (2) after long ineffective antibiotic therapy, (3) phages alone starting from the onset of the purulent complication.