Contents

Invited article
	Cancer survival rates, quality of life & cure: concepts & calculations with special reference to the life table (actuarial) method for calculating survival rates R. F. Mould	197
Original articles
	Postoperative complications and risk of recurrence after skin sparing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with autologous tissues: 9-year experience S. Mazur, M. Nagadowska, R. Chmielewski, J. Piechocki, T. Majewski, K. Czerniawski, Z. Mentrak, L. Sieńko, E. Towpik	211
	Total mesorectal excision (TME) enhances the effectiveness of the abdominosacral resection of the rectum (ASAR) in low-rectal cancer patients M. Bębenek, M. Rząca	216
	Early complications of induction therapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated according to the ALL IC-BFM 2002 regimen O. Zając-Spychała, K. Derwich, A. Grajewska, K. Stefankiewicz, A. Sobkowiak, M. Pastusiak, J. Wachowiak	221
Case report
	Solid and papillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPNP) – a rare pancreatic neoplasm detected by fine needle aspiration biopsy – a case report W. Kibil, J. Kulig, R. Pach	226
Historia medicinae
	Le Petit Parisien of 10 January 1904 and the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics R. F. Mould, B. Asselain	229