[Impact of special treatment methods on life quality and lifespan of patients with widespread forms of ovarian cancer]. / Vliianie spetsial'nykh metodov lecheniia na kachestvo i prodolzhitel'nost' zhizni bol'nykh rasprostranennymi formami raka iaichnikov.

The experience of the treatment of 138 patients with widespread forms of ovarian cancer within the period of 1998 to 2002 is described. The efficacies of the palliative treatment methods in improvement of the life quality and increase of the lifespan of the patients were compared. The results showed that combination of the chemotherapy with the subsequent citoreductive surgical interventions was advantageous. Such a treatment provided not only increase of the average lifespan of the patients from 13 to 23 months but also improvement of the life quality in 77.8% of the cases.

[Disinfection chambers: Classification and terminology]. / Klassifikatsiia dezinfektsionnykh kamer, terminy

To draw up a scientifically-grounded classification of and terminology for the chamber-type disinfection equipment a classificational scheme of notions has been worked out, the most essential characteristics were laid at its basis, such as operational conditions, the shape of the working chamber, the method of charging and disinfection, as well as heating the chamber.

[Organizational and methodological issues in the development of palliative care for oncological patients]. / Organizatsionno-metodologicheskie voprosy pazvitiia palliativnoi pomoshchi onkologicheskim bol'nym.

The share of patients, who apply to oncology facilities with advanced pathologies, shapes up a new situation for oncologists: the sphere of palliative care of both managerial and methodological types must be promoted. Thus, 451299 patients with malignant neoplasms, including those with wide-spread forms (i.e. stages III-IV: 59.1%), were registered in Russia in 2001. One hundred and thirty structural subunits of palliative care were set up in Russia's regions for today; another 58 are being established: however, none of them could be referred to as a perfect one because the role and functions have not yet been defined for palliative care, while all subject-related publications are isolated and scanty. The functioning of hospices and palliative-care subunits is not as a rule coordinated with the oncology service or with oncology experts. This problem should be resolved through setting up the palliative-care regional systems with the role and functions of palliative care being specified for them on the basis of the existing oncology institutes, hospitals and other patient-care facilities. This would maintain the continuity of medical care rendered to oncology patients at all disease stages.

[Toxic properties of regenerated water containing methyl alcohol]. / Sanitarno-gigienicheskoe issledovanie toksicheskikh svoistv regenerirovannoi vody, soderzhashchei metilovyi spirt

The experiments carried out on white male rats have shown no significant changes in the animals that may have resulted from their 30-day consumption of reclaimed water which contained up to 34 mg/l methanol and was produced by sorption purification of the atmospheric condensate during a prolonged manned experiment.