Establishing of the first private autologous cord blood bank in Georgia at the German-Georgian Specialized Oncological Clinic.

German-Georgian Specialized Oncological Clinic is a private clinic located in Tbilisi, Georgia. Close collaboration with German clinics and research laboratories has enabled the clinic to study cord blood hematopoietic stem cells. These studies created a scientific basis for establishing a cord blood bank. A municipal grant from the city of Tbilisi allowed the clinic to establish a program for the support of families with oncohematological patients. The program collected and stored cord blood for families with oncohematological histories. This grant has also enabled the establishment of an autologous cord blood bank and created opportunity for cord blood banking in Georgia. Work on a national legal basis of cord blood banking together with the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia is another important activity of the German-Georgian Oncological Clinic.

[Surgical tactics in invasive cancer of the colon]. / Khirurgicheskaia taktika pri rasprostranennom rake obodochnoi kishki.

The authors analyse the results of surgical treatment and the findings of morphological studies in 181 patients with cancer of the colon. Extended radical operative interventions were conducted in spreading of the tumor to adjacent organs and tissues in 95 (67.5%) of 140 patients. Postoperative mortality was 12.6%. Growth of the tumor into the adjacent anatomical structures was confirmed in 64.5% of cases. The prognosis of the disease was found to be determined to a greater measure by the histological structure of the tumor and metastasis to the regional lymph nodes rather than by localized spread of the tumor in patients treated by radical operation. Amendments to the formulations of stages III and IV of the clinical classification of cancer of the colon are suggested.

[Surgical treatment of cancer of the colon involving adjacent organs and tissue]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie raka obodochnoi kishki, rasprostranivshegosia na sosednie organy i tkani.

The authors generalize the experience with diagnostics and surgical treatment of 113 patients with colon carcinoma involving the adjacent organs and tissues. Extended radical operations were made on 70 patients (62.5%). The nearest results of the surgical treatment of such patients have shown that extended radical operations consisting in a removal of the colon segment with tumor as a single block with the involved adjacent anatomical structures are followed by inconsiderably higher lethality (12.8%) as compared with noncomplicated carcinoma of the colon.