[Induction chemotherapy and radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck carcinoma]. / Wartosc chemioterapii indukcyjnej w leczeniu napromienianiem zaawansowanych nowotworów glowy i szyi.

The value of inductive chemotherapy preceding the radical irradiation of locally advanced neoplasms of head and neck has been estimated. The following have been applied: cisplatin, adriamycin, bleomycin, or cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, 5-fluorouracil, or cisplatin 5-fluorouracil. A reaction to treatment in the form of CR and PR has been achieved in 71.5% of the treated patients. Irradiation was started in two to four weeks after chemotherapy had been stopped. After combined treatment the proportion of 69.5% CR and PR was achieved. The average length of time of CR and PR was 8.7 months. Treatment was well tolerated.

[Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia (Castelman's disease) in an adult woman]. / Naczyniowo-grudkowy rozrost wezlów chlonnych (choroba Castlemana) u doroslej kobiety.

Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia Castleman's disease) is a rare disorder of unclear etiology and wide spectrum of systemic symptoms. This report describes a case of this disorder of hyalinovascular type in 45-years old woman. The lesions were localized in axillary lymph nodes. The disease was curable by surgical excision.

[Cancer of the larynx in patients under 40 years of age]. / Rak krtani u chorych do 40 lat zycia.

440 patients with the plano-epithelial laryngeal cancer were radically treated by radiotherapy in Oncologic Department ZOZ in Lublin during the years 1976-1985. Among them were 23 (5.2%) "young" patients, aged below 40. In this group 10 patients (43%) revealed the first grade of clinical stage of the disease, whereas in remaining material there were 25% of cases in the first grade. The therapeutic effects in "young" group were the same as in the rest of cases. The percentage of "young" cancer patients became greater during the time: in 1976-80-4.1%, in 1981-85-6.1%.