Physical activity reduces breast cancer risk: a case-control study in Tunisia.

Purpose: This study examined the relationship between lifetime history of physical activity and breast cancer risk.

Methods: The case-control study was conducted on 400 women with histological confirmed breast cancer operated during the 2006-2009 period at Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia, and 400 cancer-free controls, aged 25-75 years. The physical activity was assessed using a structured questionnaire on each activity: type, duration, frequency, and intensity.

[Reasons of diagnostic delay of breast cancer in Tunisian women (160 patients in the central region of Tunisia)].

Background: The diagnosis of breast cancer is, in Tunisia, still done at a late stage.

Aim: To identify the principal obstacles against early diagnosis of breast cancer for patients consulting at advanced locally stage or with metastasis.

Methods: We have asked 160 patients with breast cancer showing local T3 or T4 evolution or metastasis at the time of diagnosis, about reasons for the late diagnosis of their breast cancer.

Clinical and Pathological Response to Neoadjuvant Anthracycline Based Chemotherapy in women with breast cancer.

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been used as a primary treatment for locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer, and recently extended to operable breast cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of different histologic factors in breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant anthracycline chemotherapy in Tunisian women.

Methods: A total of 109 stage II and III breast cancer patients who received neoadjuvant anthracycline chemotherapy were enrolled in this study.

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WITHDRAWN: Effect of obesity at the pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy among premenopausal Tunisian women with breast cancer.

In this article, we evaluated BMI and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) in premenopausal Tunisian women with operable breast cancer. From May 2006 to July 2009, 800 patients were diagnosed and received NC from CHU Farhat Hached (Sousse, Tunisia). Patients were categorized as obese (BMI >/=30 kg/m(2)), overweight (25 View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Postirradiation osteosarcoma of the maxilla: a case report and current review of literature.

Background. Radiation-induced sarcomas are well-known potential late sequelae of radiation therapy. They are of rare occurrence in jaw bones and are even rarer in the maxilla.

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Primary osteosarcoma of the kidney is very rare. Its exact histogenesis remains unclear. It has a tendency to recur locally and metastasize, and the prognosis is very poor.

[Breast cancer in elderly women in Tunisia. Retrospective study of 106 patients older than 65 years].

To report the epidemiological profile, anatomo - clinic, prognostic and therapeutic of breast cancers in aged woman from the region of the Center of Tunisia. Our retrospective study concern 106 patients with mammary cancers treated between January 1990 and December 1997 at the Farhat Hached Hospital in Sousse (Tunisia). The mean age was 71 years (extremes 65-91), 66% of the patients had an age more than 75 years, the mean age at the menopause was of 50 years.

[Quality of life in patients with colo-rectal cancers at a Tunisian hospital center. A case control study of a population unhurt by cancer].

Unlabelled: The aim of our study is to value the quality of life (QOL) in patients with colo-rectal cancers in the region of tunisian center and to compare it to the QOL in a healthy population unhurt of cancer.

Methods: Our population is made by 80 patients treated for coloractal cancers. The population witness includes 80 healthy individuals unhurt of cancers.

[Epithelial advanced ovarian carcinoma in the central region of Tunisia: therapeutic results and prognostic factors on 104 patients].

Between 1994 and 2004, 104 patients with epithelial advanced ovarian cancer were treated in the central region of Tunisia (81 stage III and 23 stage IV). Average age of patients was 54 years. Primary surgery was optimal (residue < 2 cm) in 40 cases (38,5 % of patients).

[Knowledge, attitude and behavior about the inherited predisposition to cancer. A survery of a population without any history of cancer in central Tunisia].

The genetic bases of inherited predisposition to cancer are now established. The aim of our study is to value the knowledge, attitude and behavior of the general population about the inherited predisposition to cancer. Our study involved a population of 200 individuals.

[Perianal ulceration revealing Langerhans cell histiocytosis].

Langerhansian histiocytosis is a rare and heterogenous disease. Skin localisation is common but the lesion usually have typical aspect and topography. Peri anal localisation is rare.

[Diagnosis and treatment of primary germ cell tumors of the mediastinum. Report of six cases].

Primary germ cell tumours of the mediastinum are rare. We report a retrospective study of six cases. Sex ratio was 2/1.

[Non-metastatic thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus complicating Burkitt's lymphoma. A case report].

We report a case of non-metastatic superior sagittal sinus thrombosis complicating a Burkitt's lymphoma of the small bowel, and review similar cases of this cerebrovascular disorder associated with lymphoma.

[Quality of life in oncology].

The measure of the quality of life in cancerology appears more and more as a fundamental criteria in the evaluation of therapeutic results. The study of the quality of life obeys three types of aims: descriptive, correlational and explanatory, and therapeutic. For evaluation, scales for quality of life were introduced, these scales use a quotation technique with the help of questionnaires or linear analog self assessment.