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M Pawlicki

Publications and source records attributed to M Pawlicki.

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Prognostic factors in advanced metastatic and recurrent melanoma treated with DTIC.

Thirty-five patients with recurrent and 25 patients with metastatic malignant melanoma after previous radical locoregional surgery were treated with DTIC at the Institute of Oncology in Kraków between 1976 and 1981. Complete and partial remissions were observed in 19/60, i.e., in 31% of the patients. Our results show an advantage for patients with locoregional recurrence, soft-tissue and lung metastases, provided that the largest deposit is no larger than 5 cm in diameter. There is little chance of remission in patients with liver and bone metastases.

Dacarbazine↗

An attempt at applying epiadriamycin to the patients for whom doxorubicin is cardiologically contraindicated.

Administrating Epi-ADR (Epiadriamycin) to the patients for whom ADR was cardiologically contraindicated did not cause significant complications. No complications occurred in the patients treated with Epiadriamycin, after they had completed a full course of maximal dose of ADR. The trial was conducted in close cooperation with a cardiological intensive care unit which is an essential arrangement in such clinical situation, until the optimal therapeutical method of administrating Epi-ADR is defined with special attention devoted to its critical dose.

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Results of combined treatment of patients with locally advanced breast cancer.

Eighty-seven women with previously untreated locally advanced, inoperable breast cancer were treated by induction chemotherapy combined with subsequent local and systemic treatment. Inflammatory breast cancer was diagnosed in 72 (87.7%) of these patients. In the remaining 15 patients, cancer of the breast in stage T3-4 N2b-3 according to the UICC classification was diagnosed. After remission induction, the patients were irradiated or operated upon. Maintenance chemotherapy was given after local treatment. The 3-year survival rate (61.5%) in the group of patients treated by surgery was significantly higher than the patients treated by irradiation (32.4%) or chemotherapy alone (12.5%). On this basis, a new program of treatment of locally advanced, inoperable breast cancer has been proposed.

Breast Neoplasms↗