Background: Although surgical resection is still the only curative maneuver in the treatment of colon cancer,
yet efforts have proved that systemic chemotherapy in the adjuvant setting improves the curative rate for those
patients with localized colon cancer. The combination of 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) and leucovorin (LV) was the
reference treatment. However the advantage of infusional 5-Fu/LV with oxaliplatin (FolFox-4) as adjuvant
treatment for high risk colon cancer patients may change the paradigm soon. In this study we presented our
treatment results for patients with colon cancer treated with FolFox- 4 regimen as adjuvant treatment at Kasr Al
Aini Hospital.
Patients and Methods: We enrolled 55 patients who had undergone curative resection for sage II and III colon
cancer to receive FolFox-4 regimen for six months. The primary end point was disease –free survival
Results: Fifty five patients were included in this study. At the time of analysis (median follow up 18 months)
9 patients (16%) had disease relapse or metastasis. At 2.5 years DFS rates and OAS rates were 75% and 80%,
respectively. The treatment was generally well tolerated with most common grade 1 treatment-related adverse
event being peripheral neuropathy and hematological toxicity.
Conclusion: It is now acceptable to consider combination chemotherapy with FolFox -4 as adjuvant treatment
for high risk colon cancer patients after curative surgery at Kasr El Ainy center of Radiation Oncology and
nuclear medicine

The structure, distribution and dimensions of skin strata and sweat glands have been investigated in Egyptian buffaloes and cattle. Samples from sixteen body regions were taken from three adult bulls of both species. Identical studies were also made on one buffalo calf and two buffalo embryos. Serial vertical and horizontal sections were cut from each body region using the ‘terpineol paraffin wax’ method. The following results were obtained.

Forty adult (15 months old) fat-tailed Egyptian rams and ewes of the Rahmani and Ossimi breeds were available at the Animal Breeding Research Farm, Giza, Egypt (30° N.). Body temperature and respiration rates were measured twice weekly throughout the year 1953–4. On days of observations, four readings were taken at 10 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Skin temperature was measured once weekly at noon for nine body regions, using a precision bridge thermometer. The effects of docking and pregnancy were also studied.

The body weights of 7 to 9 month-old White Leghorn males were observed by Lamoreux (1943) to be significantly greater when light was restricted to less than 9 hours per day. Siegel et al. (1961) reported significantly heavier body weights and better feed conversion in White Leghorn pullets at 8 weeks of age when restricting light to 6 hours per day compared to 14 hours of light per day. In a study with broiler chickens, Moore (1957) found that faster growth was obtained up to 3 or 4 weeks of age with continuous light although feed efficiency was slightly better with less light throughout the growing period. A series of experiments reported by Shutze et al. (1960) indicated that birds exposed to continuous light were superior in body weight gain to those on the other light regimes with the exception of one experiment in which chick growth response to 2 . . .