In the past, research in cancer immunology has produced informa tion important for other medical disciplines. It helped, for example, in formulating the laws of immunogenetics and in achieving a better understanding of the mechanism governing the fate of allotrans planted tissue. Cancer has often been considered a foreign body, and therefore many attempts have been made to cure it on the basis of the immunological principles applicable to parasitic, bacterial, or viral diseases. Vaccination has been investigated clinically for its po tential to prevent cancer 1], and clinical research into...

Reviews studies on the opioidergic control mechanisms in reproduction and stress physiology, and explores the clinical implications of this research. The contributors suggest that endorphins and other opioids are a link between reproductive functions and stress adaptations of the human organism.

die zu schweren perinatalen Kom plikationen fuhren konnen, lassen sich moglicherweise durch geeignete Gabe bestimmter Angiogenesefaktoren therapieren. Durch lokale Applikation von Angiogenesefaktoren ins Endometrium liesse sich eine hypervaskularisierte Zo ne mit besseren Implantationsbedingungen fur eine in vitro fertilisierte Eizelle schaffen."

1m Jahre 1885 wurde die Deutsche Gesellschaft fUr Gynakologie gegriindet, deren Mitglieder 1886 in Miinchen die erste wissenschaftliche Tagung veranstalteten. Wenn zur Tagung der Gesellschaft, die 100 Jahre spiiter stattfindet, ein Band mit zahlreichen Perspektiven einer Riickschau erscheint, dann stellt sieh die Frage nach Sinn und Notwendigkeit einer solchen Publikation. Ohne Frage wird die wissenschaftliche Fortentwicklung in ganz erheblichem MaBe von Personlichkeiten gepriigt und von besonderen, durch Personen, Zeit und Ort gepriigten Konstellationen beeinfluBt. Wir sehen nach der...

Minimal neoplasia may be defined as a small cancer that has progressed beyond its site of primary origin into the surrounding tissue, but that has not yet reached the stage of deeper invasion or metastasization. The basic principles of this minimal cancer are presented in chapters on molecular, biological and experimental aspects, and, in particular, on the clinical manifestations in various organs: preleukemia, incipient lymphoma, and minimal carcinomas of the uterine cervix, breast, thyroid, larynx, lung, prostate, stomach and colon. A separate chapter is devoted to cryptic gliomas. The...

The growth and function of many tissues are influenced by hormones. Therefore it is quite understandable that hormones play a role in the development and treatment of malignant tumors. Numerous publications address this topic; however, the results of many studies are controversial and have not been unequivocally accepted. For nearly 50 years the carcinogenic effect of steroid hormones has been under debate, and their therapeutic value a matter of discussion for equally as long. The present volume concentrates on substantiated data first obtained from the study of tumors developing from...