Cancer is a problem in Indonesia and its mortality rate is increasing. According to the Cancer Registration Council, in Indonesian women breast cancer is ranked second after cervix cancer. A medicinal plant which is called Jeruju (Acanthus ilicifolius) has been thought by traditional healers in Pasuruan and Probolinggo as effective for the treatment of breast cancer. A study has been done to in…
Many kinds of surgery had been done at ENT Dep. University of Indonesia/RS Cipto Mangunkusumo-Jakarta. Surgery of malignant tumors with their good result are recorded. Beside surgery, other modalities of therapy, pre operative-post operative irradiation and chemotherapy had also been given. The probability of the occurence of infection by fungal must give more attention Infiltration of fungal i…
Twenty eight newborn mice (Mus musculus) consist of 14 males and 14 females have been treated with benzo(a) pyrene (BP) which were dissolved in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) solution. The lung tumour induction has been done by intraperitoneally injection of the solution at the first day of age using doses of 0.2 umol BO/0.025 cc DMSO, 8th day of age using doses of 0.4 umol BP/0.025 cc DMSO, and 15th…
The incidence of lung malignancies gradually increase. Mostly lung cancers detected in a late stage as a result of extensive spreading locally and or distant metastases. It will be easy to detect when lesions reach a sufficient size to ulcerate into a bronchus. Cytology sputum could give high acuracy diagnoses, in early stage so the aim of this study was to determine the effectivity of cytology…