Cancer incidence in Martinique: a model of epidemiological transition.

In this paper, we present data from the Martinique Cancer Registry for the period 1981-2000 and interpret cancer incidence trends in the light of risk factor patterns. In Martinique, cancer data are available from 1981. The sources of information are represented by insurance records, medical evacuations, hospitals and laboratory files.

[Case-control study of the genes of receptors of the androgens of vitamin-D and of 5-alphareductase in a population of Afro-Caribbean population with prostate cancer].

Objective: The proliferation of prostate cells appears to be influenced by two steroidal hormones: testosterone and vitamin D, whose action appears to mediated by their respective receptors. The genes coding for these two receptors and the gene coding for 5-alpha-reductase (enzyme involved in testosterone metabolism) have been identified as candidate genes for prostate cancer predisposition. Previous epidemiological and genetic susceptibility studies have reported controversial results concerning the role of these genes on prostate cancer incidence in various populations.