Introduction: Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcomas have a wide range of histologic entities but they are frequently studied as a single disease. Being liposarcomas the most frequent histologic type, we’ve carried a retrospective analysis from a cohort of patients treated at a referral center to assess prognostic factors associated with demographic and therapeutic characteristics.Methods: A retrospective analysi...
This article contains three axes: the determination for a dignified life; 33 years of national and international organization; and creativity in the service of the academic construction of knowledge. Such an organization is historic, and, in the search for broadening the feminist, anti-racist and anti-homophobic platform, black women made numerous criticisms regarding the invisibility of their political action ...
Melanoma cutâneo maligno (MM) pode ser considerado uma doença crónica, porque a incidência está a aumentar e a mortalidade a diminuir. A Perfusão Isolada dos Membros (PIM) é uma técnica/terapêutica invasiva que permite aos doentes com MM disseminado/volumoso/irressecável nas extremidades evitarem amputação e regredirem estádio da doença. O interesse da comunidade clínica/científica na Qualidade de Vida (QdV) em...
O sarcoma é uma neoplasia dos tecidos moles com incidência significativa nos membros, evoluindo rapidamente para metastização regional/sistémica. A Perfusão Regional Hipertérmica (PRH) é aplicada como tratamento paliativo/adjuvante. Avaliar o tipo de resposta clínica, taxa de amputação e sobrevivência nos doentes com diagnóstico de sarcoma das extremidades submetidos a PRH, em função do tipo histológico e excis...
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The article analyses the importance of the role of the State for the implementation of public policies of affirmative action, especially for black students to enter public higher education. It argues that affirmative action is one of the alternatives to reduce or minimize the inequality in this field between black and white students and/or students from public schools and private schools, in particular by means...
The article “Black Women: A Trajectory of Creativity, Determination and Organization” seeks to make a brief account, focusing on the process of black women’s organization in dialogue with the following: the inclusion of gender and race in public policies; the holding of International Conferences — in particular, the World Conference on Women and the 3rd World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xe...
This paper is based on the debate proposed by Mary Hawkesworth in “The semiotics of a Premature Burial: Feminism in a Post-Feminist Age”. It is guided by a Latin-American and Caribbean view of the transformations of feminism and of women’s achievements in critical moments of that articulation, recollecting outstanding periods such as the renovation of feminist ideals; the autonomy of the black women’s movement ...