[Exposome and prostate cancer: Experience in a remote hospital in French Guiana].

Introduction: West Guiana is characterized by a precarious, poor, dispersed population, exposed to infectious and chemical factors. Prostate cancer is the leading cancer in terms of incidence in men. We examined its characteristics, management and main exposomes in this context.

[Implementation of geriatric oncology in a remote hospital in French Guiana].

Introduction: The aim was to analyze the implementation of the Onco-Geriatrics model in a remote ultramarine territory: West-French Guiana. The population is socially precarious in terms of income, social coverage and administrative status, and most often speaks a non-French language and has a non-Western culture.

Methods: Narrative description of the implementation and retrospective study of anonymized data from the database of older patients managed for cancer between September 2014 and December 2020.

[Prevalence of HIV in Mayotte].

Mayotte is a little French island, located in the Indian ocean, between Madagascar and Mozambic. Officially, the population goes up to 150,000 inhabitants, but in fact, it probably comes up to about 200,000 people, because of a very numerous illegal immigration, especially coming from Anjouan, the nearest Comorian island. Up to now there are no data about HIV in Mayotte.

[Thrombosis of the ending internal carotid artery complicating giant aneurysm].

A 30-year old man suddenly developed left hemiplegia. CT scan and cerebral angiography showed complete thrombosis of a right internal carotid giant aneurysm. Anterograde propagation of the thrombus in the parent artery led to ipsilateral hemispheric infarction, an exceptional presenting symptom of such vascular malformation.

[Zona in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in Bangui (Central Africa)].

In Bangui (Central African Republic) where HIV1 prevalence was 7.8% in 1987, 61 cases of herpes zoster have been studied: 17 "during" AIDS and 44 "isolated" cases. During AIDS, herpes zoster has no prognosis value.