Union Internationale Contre Le Cancer Research Articles

Radioactive Tantalum in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Bladder

Experience gained in the treatment of carcinoma of the urinary bladder with radioactive Tantalum is reported. The tumours were classified on the lines laid down by the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (1963). The Tantalum needles used and their application are described briefly. Emphasis is placed on the advantages of the method over other forms of interstitial radiation. A review of earlier studies is followed by a report on the results of treatment in 62 patients under observation for up to nine years. The tumours were exclusively malignant carcinomata, 13 differentiated and 49 anaplastic transitional epithelial carcinomata, of which one third were at stage P3. The three-and five-year survival rates were 40 and 31 per cent, respectively. Radiation reactions were few and recorded only during the early stages of the period of treatment. Comparison of the results of this treatment with those of resection without interstitial radiation is attempted. The conclusion is drawn that there is little evidence...

Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC)

Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 33, Issue 6, December 1964, Pages 1081–1082, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/33.6.1081 Published: 01 December 1964

INTERNATIONAL Union against Cancer. Clinical stage classification. Malignant tumours of the breast. 1960-1964.

International Union Against Cancer. Clinical Stage Classification. Malignant Tumours of the Breast 1960–1964Published Online:28 Jan 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-32-384-824SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractThe Committee on Clinical Stage Classification and Applied Statistics of the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer has recommended a five-year clinical trial of the T.N.M. method of staging breast cancer. The following paragraphs are taken from their memorandum, in order to explain the system. Full copies of U.I.C.C. report may be obtained from Prof. agr. P.F. Denoix, Institut Gustave Roussey, Villejuif, Seine, France.1.1 The International Union against Cancer has, since 1950, devoted special attention to the problem of clinical stage classification of malignant tumours.1.2 Initially, consideration of this problem was undertaken by the Committee on Tumour Nomenclature and Statistics, under the chairmanship of Dr. Isabella H. Perry (1950–1954). This Committee adopted, as a basis for its work on clinical stage classification, the general definitions of local extension of malignant tumours suggested by the W.H.O. Sub-committee on the Registration of Cases of Cancer as well as their Statistical Presentation.*1.3 In July 1953, in Copenhagen, the Committee on Tumour Nomenclature and Statistics held a joint meeting with the Committee on Stage-grouping in Cancer and Presentation of the Results of Treatment of Cancer of the International Congress of Radiology at which an agreement was reached on a general technique for staging and on a provisional draft for the clinical staging of cancer of the breast, cervix uteri and larynx. The Joint Committee invited the International Union against Cancer to continue this work with the object of:(a) Drafting a precise classification for cancer of the breast, cervix uteri and larynx;(b) extending the general technique to cancer of certain other sites. Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byTNM-Klassifikation beim Mammakarzinom15 August 2010 | Der Pathologe, Vol. 31, No. 5 Volume 32, Issue 384December 1959Pages: 769-828 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineJanuary 28,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Fourth International Cancer Research Congress

THE Fourth International Cancer Research Congress will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., during September 2-7, 1947. The Union Internationale contre le Cancer having accepted the invitation of the American Association for Cancer Research, the Congress will be held under the joint auspices of these two organisations, with Dr. E. V. Cowdry, professor of anatomy, Washington University School of Medicine, and director of research of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, as president of the Congress. Of the three Congresses that have been held previously, the first was in Madrid, in 1933 ; the second in Brussels, in 1936 ; the third in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A., in 1939. The State Department in Washington having approved of the International Cancer Research Congress, official invitations will shortly be sent to foreign governments. Dr. M. G. Seelig, Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, St. Louis 3, Mo., is chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Congress.

Anniversary of the Discovery of Radium

THE fortieth anniversary of the discovery of radium is the occasion for the issue in France of a special postage stamp in honour of the discoverers, Pierre and Marie Curie. Their lives and characters have been well revealed by their daughter Eve Curie, who wrote that her mother did not know how to be famous, while Einstein declared that Mme. Curie alone of famous people was unspoiled by prosperity. Her other daughter, Irene, has carried forward the illustrious scientific work of her parents by her discovery, with her husband, Prof. Joliot, of 'artificial' radioactivity. The stamp, printed in blue, is excellent in design and carries faithful portraits, as may be seen by the accompanying reproduction. It carries a surtax of half a franc for the benefit of the “Union Internationale contre le Cancer”. On its merits, this stamp should have a wide appeal, enhanced by the desire to aid in the fight against a baffling disease.