Global radiotherapy demands and corresponding radiotherapy-professional workforce requirements in 2022 and predicted to 2050: a population-based study.

Background: Addressing the challenge of cancer control requires a comprehensive, integrated, and global health-system response. We aimed to estimate global radiotherapy demands and requirements for radiotherapy professionals from 2022 to 2050.

Methods: We conducted a population-based study using data from the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) 2022 and predicted global radiotherapy demands and workforce requirements in 2050.

Radiotherapy in the management of rare gastrointestinal cancers: A systematic review.

The aim of this analysis is to assess radiotherapy's role and technical aspects in an array of rare gastrointestinal (GI) cancers for adult patients. Collection data pertaining to radiotherapy and digestive rare cancers were sourced from Medline, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library. Preoperative chemoradiotherapy improved outcomes for patients with esophageal undifferentiated carcinoma compared with esophageal salivary gland types of carcinomas.

[Breast metastasis from vulvar carcinoma: case report and review of literature].

The breast metastases resulting of vulvar carcinoma are very rare, and represent exceptionally the first manifestation of the disease. We report the case of a 42 year-old patient who underwent a treatment because of vulvar epidermoid carcinoma, right away metastatic at the level of the inguinal ganglia. The treatment consisted in a total vulvectomy with bilateral ganglial curretage, followed by external radiotherapy about the perineum and the inguinal ganglia.

[Small-cell carcinoma of the vulva].

Small-cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive malignancy; this tumor is lethal due to the propensity to metastasize early in the course of the disease. It occurs most frequently in the lung. Small-cell cancer also rarely may occur in the female genital tract, usually in the cervix.

[Clear cell carcinoma of the parotid gland].

Objectives: Clear cell carcinomas of the parotid gland are hardly reported only fifty cases are known. They are characterized by a proliferation of acinic epithelial cells and of clear myo epithelial cells. What makes them remarkable is a slow process of evolution.

[Rhabdomyosarcoma of the salivary glands. Report of 3 cases].

Rhabdomyosarcoma of the salivary glands is rare. Tumours develop mostly in children and young patients but can be diagnosed in older people. We report three new cases in women 7, 14 and 75 years old.

[Salivary duct carcinoma of the parotid gland: report of two cases and literature review].

Salivary duct carcinomas are scarce tumour developed mainly in the male in the 6th or 7th decades of their life. Authors report two new cases developed 43 and 60 years-old in females. Because this tumour was localised, a radical treatment associating surgery and radiotherapy was performed.

[Vaginal leiomyosarcoma. Apropos of 2 cases and review of the literature].

The leiomyosarcoma of the vagina is extremely rare. This paper reports two observations treated at the Ibn Rochd oncology center of Casablanca. The first patient was 32 years old, and presented a tumor of 15 cm to the detriment of the posterior wall of the vagina.

[Adenocarcinoma of the cervix uteri: a retrospective study of 83 cases].

Unlabelled: The frequency of the adenocarcinoma of cervix uteri is increasing.

Aim Of The Study: To define the characteristics of the entity.

Patients And Methods: Between 1986 and 1992, 83 adenocarcinoma of cervix uteri, were treated at the Ibn Rochd Oncology Centre in Casablanca.

[Association of fallopian tube cancer and polymyositis. Apropos of 1 case].

A 51-year-old woman consulted for pelvic pain, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea. Physical examination revealed a renitent and mobile mass in the pelvis. A right lateral uterine mass with hydroxalpinx was found at ultrasonography.

[Nephroblastoma in adults. Three case reports].

The authors report three nephroblastoma's cases occurred in adult and treated at Ibn Rochd Oncology Center at Casablanca. The average of age was 24 years (19-29 years) and the delay of diagnosis was five months (3-8 months). The most frequent clinical sign was a lumbar fossa mass.

[Clear-cell carcinoma of the larynx: review of the literature apropos of a case].

Clear cell carcinoma of the larynx is exceptional. Only six cases are described in the literature. We report a new case occurring in a 58-year-old man.

[Pure choriocarcinoma of the testis: report of a case and review of the literature].

We report a case of a young man 31 years old treated at the Ibn Rochd Oncology Center for a pure choriocarcinoma of the right testis. The first examination note a skin metastasis without another localization. The beta HCG level was 328 mu/mL.

[Primitive seminoma of the mediastinum: a case report].

In this study, the case has been reported of a 36-year old male who was treated at the Ibn Rochd Oncology Center in Casablanca for a primary mediastinal seminoma revealed by a symptomatology including cough, dyspnea, laterocervical swelling, rachidial pain and gait disorder. The preliminary investigation showed significant mediastinal enlargement with a right pleuritis and vertebral metastases; tumor markers were normal. The diagnosis of seminoma was confirmed by pathological and immunohistochemical analysis of the cervical adenopathy.

[Colorectal cancer in patients younger than 40 years of age].

Between 1988 and 1994, 326 patients with colorectal cancers were treated at the Ibn Rochd Oncology Centre in Casablanca; 88 patients were less than 40 years old (27%). There were 79 males and nine females. A family history of colorectal cancer was noted in 5%.

[Papillary carcinoma from the thyroglossal duct cyst: review of the literature and report of a case].

Cancer of a thyroglossal duct cyst is very rare. Clinical presentation is identical that of a benign cyst, and the diagnosis is histopathological. We report the case of 36 year-old woman treated for papillary carcinoma of a thyroglossal duct cyst.

[Preoperative radiotherapy of rectal cancer. The Lyons experience, 1985-1996. Prognostic study apropos of 312 patients].

Aim Of Study: Preoperative radiotherapy is used increasingly in rectal cancer in Europe. This study is a retrospective analysis of a series of 312 patients with rectal adenocarcinoma treated by preoperative radiotherapy.

Material And Method: From 1985 to 1996, 312 patients were included in this study.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in children under 15 years of age: a retrospective review of 65 patients.

Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma constitutes comprises up to 5% of primary childhood cancers but literature lacks modern uniformly treated large series.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective review was performed of sixty-five previously untreated patients younger than 16 years of age diagnosed and treated at the Ibn Rochd Centre in Casablanca between 1988 and 1992. Forty-four percent of them were stage T3 to T4 and 66% stage N2 or N3.

[Liposarcoma of the larynx. Review of the literature apropos of a case].

Liposarcoma of the larynx is an uncommon tumor. Only 27 cases have been described in literature. We report a new case occurring in a 50-year-old patient.

[Chondrosarcoma in Ollier's disease. Apropos of 2 cases and review of the literature].

Ollier's disease is a rate affliction (not more than approximately 100 cases have been reported over a 30-year period) characterized by bone dysplasia in which evolution to degenerative neoplasia has been described. Diagnosis of chondrosarcoma is delicate in these cases. It is a kind of slowly evolving low grade malignant tumor.

[Combination of endoscopic resection and external radiotherapy in carcinoma of the bladder].

The authors present results that were obtained by combining endoscopic resection and external beam radiation therapy in a population of 55 patients presenting with bladder cancer. They also explain the difficulties they encountered in the management of bladder cancer at the Ibn Rochd Cancer Center (Casablanca, Morocco).

[Cancer of the uterine cervix in young women. A retrospective study of 337 cases].

A retrospective study of 337 cases of cervix cancers in women aged 35 years and under, treated between 1980-1990 at the Ibn Rochd Oncology Center in Casablanca, was analyzed in order to determine the main characteristics of this disease and the influence of age on prognosis. The incidence of these cases was stable throughout the 11 years study period with a mean of 7.4% of all cervix cancers.

[Malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma in choroid and nasopharyngeal sites].

We report the case of a 55 year-old man admitted in May 1993 for squamous cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx (T2N2M0). Initial polychemotherapy and radiotherapy were performed in nasopharynx and cervical nodes. After 8 months of complete remission, a choroidian tumoral process appeared.