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B Adamczyk

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Gross body composition changes in patients with cancer of the uterine cervix treated with irradiation.

Gross body composition studies done on a group of 11 women with cervical cancer before and after completion of radiotherapy revealed moderate compositional changes. There was after irradiation a tendency towards weight loss, connected with some increase of relative total body water content and also its extracellular fraction. The weight loss was due to a decrease of body fat and cell mass, whereas extracellular spaces tended to increase. There was a tendency towards a drop in plasma sodium concentration and an increase of its total content in extracellular water. A significant drop of the potassium serum concentration was observed.

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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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IgG and IgA in saliva and blood serum in relation to smoking and respiratory symptoms.

The main purpose of the paper was to find a possible relationship between smoking and immunological disorders, which are to be the common ground for chronic respiratory diseases. Measurements of IgG and IgA in saliva and blood serum were performed in 87 persons during medical check-up before admission to work in a sulphur mine. Persons with cough and/or sputum production usually in the morning or during the day or at night were defined as positive symptoms. From the study, different immunoglobulin patterns have emerged in saliva and serum in relation to smoking. IgG content in saliva of smokers was lower and IgA higher than in non-smokers. Levels of both immunoglobulins in serum were lower among smokers. In persons with respiratory symptoms IgG content in saliva was markedly lower especially in smokers.

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