Colorectal cancer was the subject of the Third Symposium on Clinical Oncology organized by the Royal College of Radiolo- gists, London, in February 1981.
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].
The "e;Europe against Cancer"e; programme has, from its inception, emphasised the key role which general practitioners must play in the actions necessary to achieve its aim of reducing the incidence and the mortality from cancer in the European Community.
This volume is a compendium of the lectures, presentations, and workshops of the International Congress entitled "e;Facing the Pancreatic Dilemma"e; and of the 17th Meeting of the Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas, held in Verona on 16 -19 June 1993.
Major advances have been made in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis, the disease that still affects more than 50 percent of the population in the highly industrialized countries.
Introducing this monograph by expressing our heartfeIt thanks to all those who have contributed to its success may seem no more than a rhetorical exercise.
Studies on the colon not only serve medical interest or clinical purposes, but are also a highly interesting subject of comparative physiology, from which we can learn much about the basic principles in physiology.
Based on the results of the latest congress of the EuropeanAssociation for the Study of the Liver (EASL), this volumemakes excellent reading since it explores in detail therole of free radical reactions in liver diseases.
Die rasche Entwicklung der Erkenntnisse über peptische Magen-Darm-Erkrankungen macht für den gastroenterologisch interessierten Arzt eine stetige Weiterbildung erforderlich.
Pioneering work on hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus, and the discovery of hepatitis B-like virus in animals during the 1970's has been followed, over the past ten years, by an explosion of interest in how these viruses replicate, maintain chronic infections, and cause liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma.
