Response to neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer: influence on long-term results.

Objective: Pre-operative treatment with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) seems to improve local control and overall survival in patients with rectal cancer. The aims of the study were to analyse the impact on overall, disease free and cancer related survival of tumour response to pre-operative CRT and to analyse the influence of the degree of response on long-terms results.

Patients And Methods: Patients with a locally advanced rectal cancer, treated by pre-operative CRT were studied.

[Survival and recurrence in the multidisciplinary approach of colorectal cancer].

Background And Objective: Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent causes of death in the general population. Our aim was to analyze our experience in the multidisciplinary approach of colorectal carcinoma during a three year period.

Patients And Method: Between January 1996 and December 1998, we studied prospectively 807 patients with colorectal cancer.

[Solitary chondroma of the nasal septum].

A case of chondrome arising from the nasal septum, in a 42-year-old woman, is described. In spite of its benignity the prognostic is doubtful owing to its possible transformation in chondrosarcoma. The fundamentals of this onerous change are both clinical and anatomopathological, and are briefly discussed in the paper.

[Abrikossoff's tumor].

Two cases of granular cell tumour in the tongue are presented One of them sitting in the free edge, the other one in the middle line. We consider clinic, histogenic characteristics and treatment as well Comments on the unusual presence of this tumor in the middle line of the tongue in a child.