[First year results of "APAAC infos services"].

Context: In Ivory Coast, the APAAC association "Let us help persons living with cancer or affected by cancer", in French "Aidons les Personnes Atteintes ou Affectées par le Cancer" (APAAC), set up the first ivorian call center to support persons living with or affected by cancer and to inform population about cancer.

Purposes Of The Study: To show the feasibility of such a service in a developing country and to present the first results.

Methodology: This helpline is, since January 28th, 2010, directly accessible to the population by a fixed phone number.

[Difficulties with using morphine in cancer pain management: Ivorian experience].

Unlabelled: Pain is the most frequent functional aspect found with cancers. Pain leads to incapacity in 69% of cases. However, pain is insufficiently handled, especially in developing countries.

[Implementation of palliative care in Ivory Coast].

Ivory Coast adhered to the strategy of the primary cares of health whose leading principles served basis to the definition of the National politics of sanitary development, exposed in the National plan of sanitary development 1996-2005. The improvement of the quality of the cares is the main objective of this plan. The attack of this objective cannot make itself without the hold in account of the palliative cares that are a component of the cares for the patients affected by chronic and incurable affections, since the diagnosis until the death and even after the death.

[Hormonal status and overexpression of HER2 in breast cancer, Cancerology department of Treichville UHC. Preliminary results].

Main Objective: determine the profile of the hormonal receptors and HER2 in order to optimize the patient's treatment by hormonotherapy and to propose targeted therapeutic to the few patients can procure themselves, when the indication is put.

Secondary Objectives: show the feasibility of these exams in sub-Saharan Africa and also the necessity to improve the technical tray permitting to do these exams in routine thus.

Patients And Methods: Preliminary results of a prospective, descriptive study, on 10 months, achieved to the Cancerology service of Treichville CHU in Abidjan (Ivory Coast).

[Chemotherapy in advanced rectal cancers].

Aim Of The Study: The aim of this retrospective study was to specify the therapeutic strategy in the management of locally advanced rectal cancers in our practice in front of lack of radiotherapy.

Patients And Methods: This study had concerned 52 patients suffering from locally advanced rectal cancers, with mean age of 44 years old (range: 22-68). Evaluation for down staging was based on clinical, CT scan and intraoperative features.