Intraoperative and external radiotherapy in resected gastric cancer: updated report of a phase II trial.
From September 1984 to August 1991, 48 evaluable patients with resected gastric cancer and apparent disease confined to locoregional area were treated with intraoperative electron beam boost to the celiac axis and peripancreatic nodal areas (15 Gy) and external irradiation (40 to 46 Gy in 4 to 5 weeks) including the gastric bed and upper abdominal nodal draining regions. At the time of evaluation for IORT, the disease was primary in 38 cases, recurrent but resectable in four (anastomosis), and unresectable in four (nodal). Post operative complications were reversible. Acute tolerance to the complete treatment program was acceptable. Late complications included life-threatening events: Six episodes of gastro intestinal bleeding (three of them had anDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel stands in front of an F-35 joint strike fighter as he talks to reporters inside a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. (Marcus Weisgerber/Staff)

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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FLA. — The Pentagon is not expected to announce Thursday whether the F-35 joint strike fighter will fly to the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK, a defense official said.

US officials were still reviewing the cause of a June 23 engine fire that broke out on an Air Force jet on takeoff. This led to the grounding of all F-35 aircraft.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is visiting Eglin today where he received updates on the multiservice, multinational F-35 program. He also met with pilots and maintainers from the 33rd Fighter Wing, which trains F-35 pilots