Physical exercise, use of Plantago ovata and aspirin, and reduced risk of colon cancer.

To evaluate certain risk and protective factors for colon cancer in our population, we conducted a paired case-control study where cases were all people diagnosed with colon cancer who were registered at the Cancer Data Exchange Systems of the Community of Madrid between January 1995 and December 1996, and controls were randomly taken from electoral lists. The study population consisted of 424 persons. Using SPSS for Windows, variables were adjusted by multiple logistic regression.

Surgery for abdominal metastases of cutaneous melanoma.

The objective of this study was to support our hypothesis that surgical resection of abdominal metastases of melanoma, regardless of symptomatology, could provide prolonged palliation and improved survival. We performed a retrospective chart review at M.D.

Sarcoma metastatic to the brain: results of surgical treatment.

We report on 21 patients surgically treated for intraparenchymal brain metastasis from sarcoma, including six osteosarcomas, four leiomyosarcomas, three malignant fibrous histiocytomas, two alveolar soft-part sarcomas, two Ewing's bone sarcomas, one extraskeletal osteosarcoma, one extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma, and two unclassified sarcomas. Median survival after craniotomy was 11.8 months.