[Means of improving the organization of surgical care of lung cancer patients]. / Puti uluchsheniia organizatsii khirurgicheskoi pomoshchi bol'nym rakom legkogo.

The paper discusses improvement in diagnosis and surgical treatment of lung cancer starting from detection of alterations in the lungs to establishing indications for surgery. A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures aimed at improving the results of surgical treatment of the disease is suggested.

[Evaluation of the effectiveness of prophylactic examination for the early detection of breast cancer]. / Otsenka éffektivnosti profilakticheskikh osmotrov v vyiavlenii rannikh form raka molochnoi zhelezy.

The report deals with an experience in taking a complex of measures aimed at early diagnosis of breast cancer. The study group included 5,000 healthy females examined at a large out-patient hospital. A group at risk was found to amount to 12%. Breast cancer was detected in 17 (2.8%) members of the risk group, stage I tumor being identified in 9 cases (52.9%). Self-examination procedures as part of a complex of measures of active identification of breast tumors are discussed.

[Organization of the health care of patients with breast cancer]. / Organizatsiia pomoshchi bol'nym opukholiami molochnykh zhelez.

The paper discusses the 5-year experience of operation of cancer control service provided at a hospital department with a capacity of 50 beds as well as the results of two out-patient mammological screenings conducted by the Dispensary staff. Coordination of this work yielded a unified approach to the diagnosis and treatment of precancer and cancer of the breast. It also ensured continuity in application of procedures of therapy and prophylactic medical examination in the entire cancer control service of the Region. As a result, early diagnoses of breast cancer have become more reliable and treatment of precancerous lesions has improved.

[Experience in organizing the registration of oncological patients]. / Opyt organizatsii ucheta onkologicheskikh bol'nykh.

The inaccuracy of cancer registries at oncological dispensaries is due to the incomplete and delayed supply of statistical data on cancer patients and deaths from neoplasms by the district oncological service authorities, treated cancer patients and consultations given--by general clinical hospitals and diagnoses of cancer established post-mortem or shortly before death--by the local authorities of general medical services. As a result of the efforts made by the staff of the Cancer Control Department of the Sverdlovsk Regional Oncological Dispensary to obviate this difficulty, cancer registry coverage rose from 59.8% in 1960 to 100% in 1980.