Trends in the incidence of digestive cancers in France between 1980 and 2005 and projections for the year 2010.

The aim of this study was to present estimates of national trends in the incidence of the most frequent digestive cancers over the period 1980-2005 and to provide projections up to 2010. World age-standardised estimates of national incidence were modelled using data from the French cancer registries and the incidence/mortality ratios observed in the area covered by the contributing registries, using an age-period-cohort model. The incidence of oesophageal cancers in men strongly decreased over time from 15.

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.

Puffy hand syndrome due to drug addiction: a case-control study of the pathogenesis.

Aim: We studied the pathogenesis of puffy hand syndrome of intravenous drug use. We hypothesized that injections of high-dose sublingual buprenorphine, instead of the recommended sublingual administration, could play an important role in lymphatic obstruction and destruction.

Design And Participants: We set up a case-control study in substitution centres, recruiting intravenous drug addicts with and without puffy hands, respectively.