Blood and neoplastic diseases. Solid tumours.

Blood and neoplastic diseases. Management of solid tumours-surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.

The traditional mainstays of cancer treatment have been surgery and radiotherapy and more recently chemotherapy. Immunotherapy offers hope, but is at present largely experimental. Until recently these disciplines were often found in isolation from each other and some patients were given treatments which were inappropriate for their disease. An important introduction into the investigation and m...

Blood and neoplastic diseases. Treatment of the lymphomas.

The term lymphoma is used to describe those primary malignant diseases of lymphoreticular tissue which usually arise in lymph nodes, the diagnosis being made by microscopic examination of biopsy material. The precise histological type is important and a simple classification on which treatment is based is shown in table I. Several diseases have been omitted, such as macroglobu-linaemia, because...

Neoplastic diseases and rheumatic syndromes

Coexistence of rheumatic and neoplastic diseases may take different forms. Rheumatic paraneoplastic syndromes, including systemic sclerosis, scleroderma-like changes and Raynaud’s phenomenon are induced by substances secreted by neoplastic cells and immunological disturbances connected are associated with malignancy. They may precede the clinical manifestation of neoplasm, occur simultaneously ...

Avian Neoplastic Diseases

Diseases of the Large Intestine — Neoplastic diseases —

Neoplastic lesions of the large intestine are increasing in Japan in conjunction with the changes in the dietary life of the population. Exact diagnosis of the diseases of the large intestine are still being debated. However, recent advances in diagnostic imaging provide improved diagnosis of neoplastic lesions of the large intestine without undue stress on the patient. In this paper, recent di...