Under-treatment of elderly patients with ovarian cancer: a population based study.

Background: Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women in France, and mainly affects the elderly. The primary objective of this study was to compare treatment of ovarian cancer according to age.

Methods: All patients with invasive cancer (n=1151) diagnosed between 1997 and 2011 in the Herault Department of southern France were included.

Aminoglycosides use in patients over 75 years old.

Objective: to describe aminoglycoside use and nephrotoxicity in patients older than 75 years.

Design: retrospective multicenter study.

Setting: hospital department, rehabilitation, long-term care center.

Have French recommendations had an impact on the treatment and survival of middle and lower rectal cancer patients?

Objective: Compare the survival of middle and lower rectal cancer (MLRC) patients before and after the 1994 issue of rectal cancer (RC) consensus conference recommendations.

Methods: Cases of MLRC noted in the Hérault department of France in 1992 (n=58) and 2000 (n=93) yielded exhaustive epidemiological, clinical-pathological and treatment data that were used to compare MLRC patient management and survival in these two periods.

Results: Significantly more lymph nodes (≥ 8) were harvested in 2000 (≥ 8, 47%) than in 1992.

Primitive liver cancers: epidemiology and geographical study in France.

Objectives: The objectives of this study are, first, to describe the incidence of primary liver cancer (PLC) and, second, to highlight its epidemiological characteristics from a geographical point of view.

Methods: The nine French administrative areas, which are covered by population-based cancer registries, diagnosed a total of 1100 new cases of PLC (of which 898 occurred in males), between 1997 and 1998; 91.5% of these were identified as hepatocellular carcinoma, and 6.