[Pulmonary metastases: classification and the need for staging?] / Legochnye metastazy: klassifikatsiia i neobkhodimost' stadirovaniia?

AIM: To analyze pulmonary metastases classifications which are used in Russian and foreign literature at present time. MATERIAL AND METHODS: It is proposed the variant of pulmonary metastases staging depending on quantitative and regional prevalence of the process. RESULTS: The development of pulmonary metastases classification is advisable to determine homogeneous subgroups of patients with metastatic lesion for prospective randomized trials in order to obtain objective results about the results of surgical or other local treatment of patients with intrapulmonary metastases.

[Possibilities of local hyperthermia in treatment for edematous breast cancer patients].

The paper presents an analysis of literature on the results of treatment of edematous breast cancer as well as own data on the use of local hyperthermia for this pathology. Local hy- perthermia in combination with chemotherapy (thermochemo- therapy) was applied in 14 patients with secondary edematous breast cancer. Age of patients ranged from 37 to 72 years (mean 53 years). The study results indicate promising applica- tions of thermochemotherapy in edematous breast cancer: for operable patients as neoadjuvant, for inoperable patients as palliative method of treatment.