[Integration of nutritional care into cancer treatment: need for improvement].

Progresses in cancer treatment transformed cancer into a chronic disease associated with growing nutritional problems. Poor nutritional status of cancer patients worsens morbidity, mortality, overall cost of care and decreases patients' quality of life, oncologic treatments tolerance and efficacy. These adverse effects lead to treatment modifications or interruptions, reducing the chances to control or cure cancer.

Percutaneous vertebroplasty in octogenarians: results and follow-up.

Objectives: To determine pain relief, performance status, morbidity, and mortality associated with percutaneous vertebroplasty for spinal pain in patients aged 80 years and older.

Design: Prospective, descriptive, third-party independent interview, clinical audit.

Setting: University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

Percutaneous vertebroplasty in metastatic disease: transpedicular access and treatment of lysed pedicles--initial experience.

For the treatment of lytic disease involving the pedicles of vertebrae in patients with metastatic disease, the authors performed percutaneous vertebroplasty by using an access route via the lysed pedicle. Fifty-one pedicles were treated in 32 consecutive patients. In all cases, a radiologically satisfactory filling of both the affected pedicle and the vertebral body was achieved.

Pulmonary blastoma: report of five cases and identification of clinical features suggestive of the disease.

Objective: Identification of clinical features suggestive of pulmonary blastoma (PB) through a retrospective comparison with cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) operated during the same period.

Methods: Between 1977 and 1999, five patients were operated for PB at Geneva University Hospital (four women and one man, aged 32-46 years--mean 36.8) versus 1913 consecutive patients (1558 men and 355 women, mean age 61.