Department of Medical oncology/ Neurology/
Institute of Oncology
Zaloška 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel.: +386 1 5879 457
Fax.: +386 1 5879 406

Dr. Ros finished medical study on the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, in 1982. In 1990, she passed master degree on prognostic factors, disease free interval and survival in malignant melanoma patients. In 1995, she finished training in neurology . I She is the only neurologist in the National cancer center, covering the population of two million inhabitants. In the last years we pay more intention to paraneoplastic neurological disorders and gathering more experiences in this special topic. We send material for testing for onconeural antibodies to prof. Graus laboratory in Barcelona. On our regular clinical neuropathologic conferences we have presented a few patients with PNS, the last one is prepairing for publication.

Scientific Team
Maja Trost, MD, MSc, neurologist, Viktor Svigelj, MD, MSc, neurologist,
Bernard Meglic, MD, MSc, neurologist, Uros Rot, MD, MSc, neurologist,
Prof. Mara Popovic, MD, PhD, neuropathologist.

Research facilities
We have no laboratory for testing onconeural antibodies yet. We send material for such testing to Barcelona.

Areas of interest:
According to rarity of such cases, we are interested in prevalence and type of PNS in our country .

Selected references:

Ros T, Flisar D. Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and chorea - two cases with extrapyramidal paraneoplastic disorders. J Neuro-oncol 1998, 39, 2:185.

Ros T. Extrapyramidal paraneoplastic disorders. In: Final programme and abstracts: Joint Meeting of the Italian, Austrian and Slovenian Basal Ganglia Clubs, March 9-21,1998 - Tarvisio (UD) - Italy, s.n., 21-22.

Ros T, Pirtosek Z, Flisar D. Progressive eccephalomyelitis with rigidity and chorea - three cases with extrapyramidal paraneoplastic disorders. Mov Disord 1998, 13, Suppl.2; 159.

Meglic B, Graus F, Grad A. Anti-Yo associated paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration in a man with gastric adenocarcinoma. J Neurol Sciences 2001,185:135 - 8.

Ros T. Patient with anti - Hu antibodies, cerebellar syndrome and SCLC. Neuro - oncol 2000, 2, Supll 1, S6.

Dolenc-Groselj L, Meglic B, Popovic M. Report of a patient with two primary lung carcinomas and neurological manifestations: metastases and paraneoplastic syndrome. Zdrav Vest 2000; 69:25-9.