[Treatment of patients with lung cancer who had suffered acute myocardial infarction]. / Lechenie bol'nykh rakom legkogo, perenesshikh ostryi infarkt miokarda.

The study was concerned with a comparison of 64 cases of lung cancer with concomitant postinfarctional cardiosclerosis, treated by surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, with similar patients who had not suffered from myocardial infarction. It was found that infarction patients may be given one component of combined treatment or a combination of two (radical surgery followed by a course of postoperative radiation treatment in a dose of 5,000 rad), if required. The long-term results of treatment of patients of both groups were similar.

[Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients with concurrent cardiovascular system diseases]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie raka legkogo u bol'nykh s soputstvuiushchimi zabolevaniiami serdechno-sosudistoi sistemy.

The data are reported on 1000 patients operated upon for lung cancer, in 290 of them concomitant cardiovascular lesions have been revealed. The postoperative mortality was found to be higher in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis, hypertension of stage II--III at the age under 59, while in chronic coronary insufficiency, arrhythmia and impaired conductivity the mortality rate was not increased. In patients over 60 the postoperative mortality was higher than in young patients, however, a concomitant cardiovascular pathology rendered no appreciable effect. A 5-year survival in concomitant cardiovascular pathology was 25% versus 33.3% in control patients, that is attributed by the authors to a large number of "compromise" saving operations in patients with concomitant cardiovascular lesions.

[Prognosis of the development of postoperative complications in cancer of the colon and rectum]. / Prognozirovanie razvitiia posleoperatsionnnykh oslozhnenii u bol'nykh rakom obodochnoi i priamoi kishki.

Method of correlation and regression analysis in a computor was used which enabled the authors to make a formula of the relationship between the development of complications after radical operations for carcinoma of the colon and rectum (583 patients). The authors have made a classification of the degrees of complication risk which is sufficiently simple for practical use.

[Factors of anxiety and the course of the postoperative period of patients with cancer of the stomach and rectum (author's transl)]. / Angstfaktor und Verlauf der postoperativen Periode bei Magen- und Mastdarmkrebskranken.

A clinicopsychological examination of 175 patients of the stomach and rectum operated radically in 1975--1976 in the N. N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology was carried out. The relationship between the anxiety level after MMPI, stage of disease and the character of the course of the postoperative period were studied. Results are showing that the manifestation of anxiety and the level of it after MMPI is one of indices of the state of patients and to some extent the reason for developing complications after surgery. Apparently that this group of patients with a manifested factor of anxiety (about 55%) needs a special psychotherapeutic approach before operation and a special attention and care after it.

[Role of nonspecific accompanying pulmonary pathology in altering the external respiratory function in lung cancer]. / Rol' nespetsificheskoi soputstvuiushchei legochnoi patologii v izmenenii funktsii vneshnego dykhaniia pri rake legkogo.

In 110 lung cancer patients the authors have determined the rate of separate distension of the lung and chest (DL--C), and in 60 of them radiopneumography with Xe133 was employed. All patients were subdivided into 3 groups: I--those suffering chronic concomitant lung affections, II--those with acute pulmonary diseases in the anamnesis, III--those showing no signs of concomitant pathology. It was found that the previous diseases (pneumonia, acute bronchitis) render no significant effect on the external respiration function (as evidenced by radiopneumographic findings). Whereas concomitant pathology (chronic bronchitis, chronic pneumonia, etc.) would aggravate the function considerably, that is especially pronounced in central tumor localization. In patients of the group I and II DL--C was found to be markely reduced, that may be due to asymptomatic pleurofibrosis in the group II. To estimate the possibilities of surgical treatment for lung cancer, a detailed complex diagnosis of concomitant nonspecific pulmonary pathology seems to be absolutely necessary.

[Postoperative pneumonia in oncological patients]. / Posleoperatsionnye pnevmonii u onkologicheskikh bol'nykh

The authors have analysed the incidence of postoperative pneumonias in patients with malignant tumors of different localization, who were operated in the N. N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology of the USSR Ministry of Health during the period of 1969--1973.