Publications by authors named "Guigues B"

Thrombotic risk among combined oral contraceptives (COC) users has recently been debated following a court action initiated by a patient. Recent epidemiological data, as well as accumulating biological data underlying these data, have led French Health authorities to modify COC prescription and reimbursement modalities. A short synthesis is proposed by a multidisciplinary group of experts from four French societies (CGOF, FNCGM, GHT, and SFMV).

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Therapeutic monitoring of 120 hours continuous 5-fluorouracil associated with cisplatin. For 31 patients treated by continuous 5-fluorouracil with cisplatin, a therapeutic monitoring of 5-fluorouracil is performed, based on the 48 first hours area under the curve (AUC) and the total AUC. The 5-fluorouracile taylorization allows to reduce some toxicity's while preserving an efficiency (objective responses 42%).

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