[Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and mucinous-like tumor associated antigen (MAC). Statistic correlation in advanced breast carcinoma]

In this study we have determined the plasmatic values of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and mucinous like tumor associated antigen (MCA) in 20 women with metastatic breast cancer. CEA and MCA were determined by enzyme immunoassay technique. The results were analyzed by test r for the statement of statistical correlation. Since r was inferior to p 5% (r = 0.3255; p = 0.4438) the 2 parameters are not correlated and their biological expression must be considered independent.

[Prognostic significance of hypereosinophilia in surgically treated breast carcinoma. Our experience]

Several Authors have published that hypereosinophilia is often related to solid carcinoma and mostly to mucin secreting epithelium carcinoma. Such hypereosinophilia has been considered a negative prognostic symptom. In this trial we have studied our out-patients affected by breast cancer who showed hypereosinophilia during their post-surgical follow-up or therapy. Such hypereosinophilia was not related to any symptom of progression of neoplasia. We thus suppose that hypereosinophilia associated with breast cancer is probably not related to the development of neoplastic tissue.

[Systemic adjuvant chemotherapy of bladder carcinoma with 5 fluorouracil and cyclophosphamide]

Patients with bladder cancer in pT2 and pT3 infiltrating stages have a 5 year survival rate less than 50% after primary surgical and/or radiant therapy. Aim of the present study was to evaluate if adjuvant chemotherapy could improve survival in these subjects. For this purpose, 16 patients underwent treatment with 5-Fluorouracil and cyclophosphamide (min. three, max six courses). The obtained results have shown a 5 year actuarial survival rate of about 48%. Our experience has not shown therefore any improvement compared with primary treatment alone.

[Platelet aggregation during adjuvant chemotherapy with CMF]

We have studied platelet aggregation in fourteen pre- and post-menopausal women treated with cyclic adjuvant CMF chemotherapy for mammary cancer with positive axillary nodes, previously operated. Aim of the investigation is to evaluate the effect of chemotherapy on platelet aggregation. The obtained results demonstrate that CMF therapy does not modify platelet aggregation in both pre- and post-menopausal patients.

[Influence of smoking on healing in patients with NSAID-induced peptic ulcer]

The influence of smoking on the cure of patients with peptic disease under non-steroidal antiphlogistic drugs. Observation over a 2-month period of 35 patients with peptic ulcer or erosive duodenitis related to the use of non-steroidal antiphlogistic drugs shows a significant delay in endoscopic cure in smokers, whether or not they have stopped smoking.