[Preliminary results of the Russia (St.Petersburg)/WHO program for the evaluation of the effectiveness of breast self-examination]. / Promezhutochnye rezul'taty programmy Rocciia (Sankt-Peterburg)/VOZ po otsenke éffektivnosti samoobsledovaniia molochnykh zhelez.

Although an absolute difference of 10% (65,4 vs. 54,9%) in 5- and 9-year survival in breast cancer patients was recorded between the self-examination and control groups a large-scale randomized population-controlled study of 122,471 females has failed to provide significant differences (Log-rank - 0,774, p > 0.05). No significant decrease in mortality was observed in the self-examination group as compared with the untrained controls. As a result of providing more information to the population on risk factors. twice as many of the trained females consulted oncologists. Also, the number of early detection of breast tumor (T1-2NOMO) in both groups was 1,5-2,5 times that recorded elsewhere. Since 3,55 per 1,000 patients with breast tumors per year, aged 50-59, died of cardio-vascular disease, i.e. 3,1 times the expected 1,16 per 1,000, more attention should be focused on timely diagnosis and treatment of concomitant cardio-vascular pathology.

[Perspectives of providing preventive oncology screening at large industrial plants]. / Perspektivy provedeniia profilakticheskikh onkologicheskikh osmotrov na krupnykh promyshlennykh predpriiatiiakh.

The introduction of an automated ramified system of questionnaire-based surveys developed at the Institute and tested at large plants and factories of the city has both noticeably improved the standards of cancer-control screening campaigns and has cut their costs. The study was concerned with evaluation of the effectiveness of identification of cancer pathology of two major localizations--gastrointestinal tract (21,779) and mammary gland (32,334).