PUGLISI M.

The authors report their experience of multimodal treatment (surgery, chemo and/or hormonotherapy, radiotherapy) of breast cancer in 59 patients more than 70 years old. Patients with primary operable breast cancer underwent surgical treatment, followed by chemo or hormonal therapy whenever axillary nodes proved positive, and by radiotherapy on...

Reoperative surgery for thyroid disease still plays a predominant role in the treatment of goiter recurrences. At the moment, neither useful biological nor clinical indicators exist to prevent such recurrences. The effectiveness of TSH-suppressive therapy is still debatable and some authors have proposed total thyroidectomy for this benign...