[Patient satisfaction of women involved in the pilot program of large scale mammography in the Ariana area of Tunisia].

Objective: Evaluate the degree of satisfaction of women included in the large scale mammography program of breast cancer screening in the state of Ariana in Tunisia.

Material And Methods: [corrected] Within the women explored by mammography, we have contaced 112 patients who had a positif screening requiring histological checking. We have established a questionnaire concerning: the invitation, the clinical examination, the result announcement and the therapeutic management.

[Surgical treatment of breast lesions: preliminary results of the screening program of the Ariana area].

Objective: To report clinical, radiological and histological characteristics of the infraclinical breast lesions patients recruited via the large scale mammography breast cancer screening of l'Ariana state in Tunisia.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective study over a period of 2 years. The recruitment of patients made on the occasion of the program of breast cancer screening.

[Management of breast cancer detected by a mammography program in the Ariana area of Tunisia].

Objective: To report the epidemiological and anatomoclinical features of breast cancers referred to a department of gynecology from the screening program of l'Ariana state in Tunisia.

Material And Methods: A longitudinal retrospective Study was done over a period of 4 years (2004-2006 ) at the unit "A" gynecology department of the maternity of Tunis. We collected all the cases with histologically confirmed breast cancer diagnosed within the mammography screening program of l'Ariana state, referred to our unit for treatment.

[Retrospective results of ultrasonographically-guided biopsy the breast cancer screening program of the Ariana area of Tunisia].

Objective: To report the results of breast ultrasonographically-guided fine needle aspirations and needle biopsies within the breast cancer screening program of L'Ariana state in Tunisia.

Material And Methods: Our retrospective study include 143 patients, with mammographically detected lesions, which underwent a diagnostic percutanous ultrasonographically guided procedures. 57 patients underwent a fine needle aspiration, 25 underwent a needle biopsy and 61 patients underwent both procedures.

[Preliminary results and analysis of the feasibility of mammographic breast cancer screening in women younger than 50 years of the Ariana area in Tunisia].

Objective: To report the preliminary results of the feasibility of breast cancer mammographic screening among women younger than 50 years from the l'Ariana state of Tunisia.

Material And Methods: The National office of the Family and Population (ONFP) launched a protocol on feasibility of breast cancer mammographic screening targeting asymptomatic women aged 40-69 years, from the l'Ariana state in Tunisia. We practiced two oblique and face incidences at the mammography screening unit of the ONFP, whose equipment and control system of quality answered to the European Communitiy for breast cancer screening.