Neoplastic Diseases of the Blood

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...

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...

Avian Neoplastic Diseases

Regional chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases.

Recent developments have made regional chemotherapy a more rational endeavour. The important pharmacokinetic principles have been defined. The increase in regional exposure achieved is a direct function of a drug's total body clearance and is an inverse function of the permeability-area product (defining ease of egress) for third spaces or of the regional arterial blood flow for intraarterial i...

Cachexia, the metabolic component of neoplastic diseases.