Providing Patients with Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer Access to Brachytherapy: Experience from a Referral Network for Women Treated in Overseas France.

Image-guided adaptive brachytherapy (IGABT) is part of the standard of care for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC). Access to IGABT is limited in many regions, thus leading to treatment care disparities. We report the experience of a referral network for women with LACC between radiotherapy facilities in Overseas France and Gustave Roussy.

[The oncology residency program in French overseas].

Once his specialty has been chosen, and according to his ranking, the new resident in oncology decides on the subdivision in which he wishes to be among the 28 existing subdivisions. Two concern overseas departments and territories: the Antilles-Guyana subdivision and the Indian Ocean subdivision. The oncology residency has its own particularities because of the demographic characteristics and epidemiology of cancers in these areas, but also because of a particular organization of care and university teaching.

[Radiotherapy volume delineation based on (F)-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for locally advanced or inoperable oesophageal cancer].

Purpose: To study the impact on radiotherapy planning of an automatically segmented target volume delineation based on (F)-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose (FDG)-hybrid positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) compared to a manually delineation based on computed tomography (CT) in oesophageal carcinoma patients.

Methods And Materials: Fifty-eight patients diagnosed with oesophageal cancer between September 2009 and November 2014 were included. The majority had squamous cell carcinoma (84.