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Background: Adequate local control rates > 90% and acceptable functional results are the paramount goals in the treatment of soft-tissue sarcoma. Purpose of this paper is to evaluate response, long-term control, functional outcome and toxicity following neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (RCT) in advanced and recurrent soft tissue sarcoma.Patients and Methods: Between 1992 and 1998, a total of 23 patients in whom primary curative limb and function sparing surgery seemed impossible entered the study. Sixteen patients had primary and 7 patients recurrent sarcoma. The stages according to AJCC/UICC 1997 were as follows: rIA (2), rIIA (5) IIA (4), IIB (2), III (7), IV (3). RCT consisted of an accelerated split-course radiation (1.5 to 1.6 Gy twice daily, median total dose 60 Gy, range 60 to 64 Gy, break of 1 week after 30 Gy) with concomitant chemotherapy using adriamycin (50 mg/m2/d on days 2 and 30) and ifosfamide (1.5 g/m2/d on days 1 to 5, 29 to 33). Median follow-up was 26 months (range 2 to 92 months).Results: Twenty-two patients underwent surgery with a curative (R0) resection being achieved in 20/22 (91%) patients and gross residual (R2) tumor or unclear tumor margins (RX) in 1 patient, respectively. Effective tumor-downstaging was documented in 4/22 (18%) patients (ypT0: 3 patients, ypT1: 1 patient). Long-term local tumor control after R0/RX resection remained 100%. Without prognostic impact on tumor response and local control have been the variables primary vs. recurrent tumor, grading, stage and gender. Delayed wound healing was only noted in 1/22 (5%) patients. Four patients developed distant metastases. Overall-, NED- and distant-metastases-free survival rates were 83%, 64% and 68%, respectively, at 3 years. Grade 3/4 neutropenia (WHO) was seen after 21/46 (46%) cycles of chemotherapy with 1 patient dying of septicemia. The functional results were good to excellent in 18/22 (82%) patients.Conclusion: Accelerated split-course radiation with 60 to 64 Gy and concurrent chemotherapy using adriamycin/ifosfamide is a safe and effective treatment for soft tissue sarcoma. This regimen may be considered in all cases with recurrent and advanced disease not amenable to primary curative or limb sparing surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: There is a greater controversy regarding the indication of radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics in patients with suspected lymph node metastases in locally advanced prostate cancer (T2b-4 N0) on the one hand and in patients with pathologically proven lymph node metastases in locoregional advanced prostate cancer (Tx pN+) on the other hand following definitive radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy. This paper investigates the possible indications for radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics in the light of data from the literature.Patients and Methods: Because data from several retrospective studies concerning radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics indicated a better outcome, the RTOG conducted 2 prospective randomised studies (RTOG 75-06, 77-06) to address these questions. However, the results of these studies showed no better survival or cause specific survival for patients treated for the paraaortal or pelvic lymphatics and therefore, radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics was no more advocated. A reanalysis showed several problems of the study design and it was concluded that the studies couldn't prove the question of elective radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics. In RTOG 77-06 patients with T1b/T2 tumors were investigated. Therefore, there is no prospective study investigating the elective radiotherapy in patients with T3-tumors, who are at high risk of pelvic lymph node metastases.Results: Today there is no indication for treating the paraaortal lymphatics in patients with locoregional advanced prostate cancer. Many radiotherapists perform the elective radiotherapy of pelvic lymphatics when the risk of metastases is above 15 to 20% because retrospective data indicate a better outcome. On the other hand, many others don't treat them because RTOG 75-06 and 77-06 didn't demonstrate a better outcome. Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy with low morbidity seems to be helpful as in pN0 patients radiotherapy is not necessary. Where performing laparoscopic pelvine lymphadenectomy is impossible the probability of the frequency of lymph node metastases can be estimated using the clinical tumor stage, the Gleason-score and the pretherapeutic PSA. In case of proven metastases (pN+) some retrospective data indicate that patients with micrometastasis could profit from aggressive treatment. In case of proven metastases and extirpation by lymphadenectomy it seems that patients with hormonal therapy and radiotherapy have a longer tumor-free interval. However, there are no data from randomized trials.Conclusions: Every radiotherapist has to make his own decision for radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics as there is no standard treatment. Two randomised studies are open and recruiting patients. These are one study of the ARO, investigating patients with histologically proven lymph node metastases and one study of the RTOG (RTOG 9413), investigating patients with an estimated risk of lymph node metastases > 15%. In case of radiotherapy of the pelvic lymphatics a dose of 45 Gy for suspected metastases and 50.4 Gy for proven metastases is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses crop production in Saxony, Germany, from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Using crop production rates as an indicator of rural economic growth, the authors present a quantitatively based, longitudinal study of rural conditions in Germany. Issues addressed include agricultural yields, land use patterns, and the processes of agricultural reforms and industrialization that shaped the economy in Saxony in the mid-nineteenth century. Crops surveyed include grains and potatoes.

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Based on longitudinal data in the dimensions of state, economy and society it is analyzed to what extent European societies have certain features in common which distinguish them from the United States. For most social indicators the range of variation within the European Union is bigger than the gap between Europe and the U.S. Differences between countries with different institutional arrangements persist. In terms of employment and growth dynamics Scandinavian nations, which have similarly extended welfare states as Continental European countries, have performed similarly well as the Anglo-Saxon countries. Hence there are not only different social models in Europe, but also different pathways to success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]