ABSTRACT
Authors, after a short dissertation about evolution, trough out the years, of the diagnosis and the therapy of the mammary carcinoma, specify the leading role of primary prevention. Self palpation and the mammography reduce of about 30% the mortality. Modern pharmacology and radiotherapy allow a surgical preservative approach, produce better esthetic and functional results. Preservative therapy (QUART) also warrants a good quality of life, and allows the excellent control of primary disease.
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Breast Neoplasms , Age Factors , Aged , Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Breast Neoplasms/therapy , Combined Modality Therapy , Female , Humans , Mammography , Middle Aged , Quality of Life , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The authors, in the present study try to test the prophylactic effect of human IgG on surgical patients affected by colorectal cancer and undergoing chemotherapy in order to prevent microbial infections, supporting immunological host defences.
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Bacterial Infections/prevention & control , Colorectal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Immunoglobulins, Intravenous/therapeutic use , Postoperative Complications/prevention & control , Adult , Aged , Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects , Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use , Bacterial Infections/etiology , Colorectal Neoplasms/surgery , Combined Modality Therapy , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Postoperative Complications/etiologyABSTRACT
The authors show a case of retroperitoneal lipoma, histologically ascertained; they state its origin and the clinical features, and analyse the different diagnostical methods, particularly dwelling upon urography, TC and selective arteriography. They, at last, point out such pathology, although benign, is burdened by a high risk of relapses and by the possibility to turn into malignant. As a conclusion, they assert the importance of the radicalness of the intervention, joined to bioptic drawings in different parts of the tumor extirpated, with the purpose to identify, as precociously as possible, an eventual malignant degeneration of the same lipoma.
