RESUMEN
In the Institute of Radiology in Belgrade, in 1960 to 1972 period, 115 patients with malignant tumors of eosophagus were treated only with radiation. Among them there were 89 men and 26 women. The tumors appeared most frequently in the seventh decade of life, and their localization did not have an essential influence on the course of the disease, respectively on the effects of medical treatment. Two of these patients survived 5 years, and 78 died in the course of the first year after radiation. Particularly we found improvement regarding the general condition and the better feeding possibilities (70 per cent of the cases). These patients spent their last days relatively well and in this we should see the significant of radiotherapy of these malignant tumors, because another choice of medical treatment and help does not exist for the present. From 1975 year we have been using the preoperative radiation in short courses in order to improve the surgical results.
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Neoplasias Esofágicas/radioterapia , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana EdadRESUMEN
Results are reported from the treatment of a group comprising 246 women with carcinoma of the uterine corpus. Of these, 126 patients were treated surgically and afterwards irradiated, whereas 120 were exposed to radiation methods only. The five-year survival rate without recurrence was 73,8% of the surgically treated cases and 37,7% of the patients who were only irradiated. It has to be noted, however, that the two groups are hardly comparable, since the second group mostly consisted of inoperable cases in advanced stages and in a bad general state. Postoperative radiotherapy proved very useful. The reexamination of this group revealed considerable diminution of recurrences and vaginal metastases. Only in three (2,4%) out of 126 patients irradiated after surgical treatment metastases to the vagina were found later on.