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AUTHOR
G. Caramia
Adriamycin and Daunomycin in the Treatment of Vesical and Prostatic Neoplasias. Preliminary Results
Our preHrninary experience with adriamycin in tumors of the bladder and prostate is of 25 treatments performed in 21 patients. The discrepancy between the numbers of patients and treatments is due to the fact that some patients were again submitted to various therapeutic cycles upon subsequent admissions. The treatments administered to the same patient at different times are considered individually, with regard either to a different schedule and way of administration of the drug, or to the interposition of other therapeutic means in the intervals between treatments. In addition, 13 patients were treated with daunomycin, as shown in Table 1.
Uric acid, phosphate and oxalate stones: treatment and prophylaxis.
Medical treatment for the most commonly encountered types of renal stones is described. Nowadays treatment for uric acid stones is well-defined: alkalinizing urine is easy with drugs that are sufficiently active and well enough managed. Relapse is avoided in a high percentage of patients. Medical treatment of phosphate or calcium stones is a more open question as results are far from satisfactory compared with intra- and extra-corporeal approaches which are often minimally invasive and well accepted by both patient and urologist. Relapses are not easy to control because prophylactic measures such as changes in lifestyle and diet are never activated or because they are adopted for a brief pe…