On December 1, 1951, the Institutes of Surgical Anatomy and Operative Techniques were founded in Hungary. In the academic year 1951/1952, only lectures were held for the students, in an increased number of hours during the semester, there was no practical opportunity yet due to the structural organization of the institutes. The actual teaching of the subject only started in the academic year 1952/1953 for the fourth year (semester 8-9) in the form of 1 h of lecture and 2 h of practical training per week, for a total of 40 h per semester. In the second semester, the subject was closed by a final examination. Regarding the institute in Debrecen, the authors present the beginning of teaching the subject based on contemporary documents.
This publication was prepared on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Professor Mihály Boros as the head of the Institute for Surgical Research, Szeged, and summarises the educational and research achievements between 1998-2023, with the intention to show the importance of combining pre-clinical and clinical surgery, surgical training and experimental surgical research.
The incidence of colon cancer in Hungary shows a continuous increase. Improvements in the chances of survival are mostly dependent on early diagnosis and prevention. The state of the art multidisciplinary treatment of colon cancer also needs focused attention. Next to the ever evolving oncology, surgical resection still remains the indispensable foundation in the treatment of colon cancer. In our article we put an emphasis on the modern principles of surgery. We aim to overview current standards and future initiatives. The lecture that this article is based on was held at the third national event of the Oncologic Section of the Hungarian Surgical Society.
Melanoma surgery has changed significantly in recent years. The highly radical operations with many complications, in addition to which the complete and disease-free survival remained low, were gradually replaced by less radical operations. With the introduction of new systemic treatments (targeted and immuno-oncological) in adjuvant indications, certain surgeries, such as elective block dissections, have now been displaced from surgical treatments and the role of surgery has also been re-evaluated. The surgery for primary tumor removal, reexcision, sentinel lymph node biopsy and lymph region surgery, and surgical treatment of skin and distant metastases have changed. In this summary communication, the authors provide an overview of the currently accepted surgical therapy of melanoma malignum based on the international literature and their own practice.
Breast cancer shall continue to be a public health problem because of its constantly ascending incidence and its high mortality. In the last decades, several positive changes happened in the treatment of this disease, as breast cancer screening, and introducing more effective oncological and surgical therapeutical methods. Qualitative and methodological development of breast surgery, the centralisation and the daily practice of quality assurance principles together will play an important role in reduction of breast cancer mortality in the future.