The causes, with considerably influence the advancement of cancer process have been investigated in patients with lymphatic system tumours admitted to the Department of Chemotherapy at the Center of Oncology in Cracow. It has been revealed, that the delay in the treatment was mainly due to false first diagnosis as well as the negligence of the symptoms by the patients themselves and also to consulting medically unrecognized "healers" before undertaking proper, specialized treatment. It has been observed, that more than every fourth patient took advice of "non-doctors", i.e. bioenergy-therapists, incompetent healers, herbalists and so forth. These factors by influencing further delay in the treatment, diminish its chances.

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[Evaluation of health status of patients treated in their childhood for Wilms' tumor].

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[Selected aspects of diagnosis and treatment of prostatic cancer].

Prostatic cancer is one of the most frequent malignant tumours in men. The chronic course of the disease and the opportunity of selecting of one of many available treatment methods make possible adjustment of the management to the individual problems of the patient. This leads, however, to various difficulties connected with the selection of optimal management in various clinical situations. The purpose of the paper was presentation of selected problems in the diagnosis and treatment of prostatic cancer in the light of own clinical experience, in the first place.

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[Results of chemotherapy of cancer of the stomach].

45 patients with advanced gastric cancer received palliation chemotherapy in the period from October 1975 until December 1985. Remission have been obtained in 9 patients including complete remission in 3 (6.6%) and partial in 6 (8.1%). Mean survival for the whole group has been 11.6 months, in patient with remission 16.4 months and in patients not responding to treatment 5.6 months.

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[Assessment of causes for delayed treatment in patients with malignant neoplasms ].

Investigation of the causes of delay in the treatment of patients with malignant neoplasms indicates that medium time of delay caused by patient has been 7 months, and caused by physician 9 months. Investigations indicate also that time of waiting for admission to the Oncology Center has been averaging 3 weeks. It has been found that every 9-th patient has been under non medical care for average period of 7 months.

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