The Sixth International Congress of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, which took place from 2 to 6 September 1980 in the congressional chambers of the former Reichstag building in Berlin, had as its theme "e;Women in a Changing Society.
Predictive drug testing on human tumor cells in order to define the appropriate chemotherapy will remain imperative as long as the anticancer agents available are few in number and show only limited activity.
At first glance it appears that little has happened in our understanding of bronchogenic carcinoma, since five year survival rates have not changed appreciably over the past ten years.
The enormous expansion seen over the last decade in the mammo- graphic detection of breast cancer lesions, especially the use of screen- ing procedures for the early detection of clinically unsuspected tumors, has made it necessary to summarize the experience made by various centers in the world.
rope it was mainly the states of the northern and centrat European areas which succeeded in achieving the extermi- nation or at least the regression of brucellosis.
Lactogenic hormone activity was first observed in bovine pituitary extracts by Stricker and Griiter in 1928, working in Bouin's laboratory in Strasbourg.
Transplantation of syngeneic (donor is a monozygous twin) or allogeneic (donor is an HLA-identical sibling) marrow provides the opportunity for aggressive antileukemic therapy without regard to marrow toxicity.
Attempts to influence survival of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) by adjuvant chemotherapy are limited by the variability of survival in different prognostic groups [4] and the paucity of drugs that have shown activity in the advanced disease [10].
Progress in basic research has made it necessary to redetermine the possibility of classic endocrine therapy for the treatment of patients with breast cancer.
The subject of the apallic syndrome is one which has long been familiar to me, although I have not personally studied it as deeply as I would have wished.
