Breast cancer in young women in southern Tunisia: Anatomical study and clinical prognostic factors: About a series of 83 patients.

Purpose: To define epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and prognostic factors influencing survival of breast cancer in young women younger than 35 in southern Tunisia.

Material And Methods: This is a retrospective study of 83 patients younger than 35 years and treated within tumors mammary committee of Sfax.

Results: The mean age was 31.

Impact of breast cancer stage, time from diagnosis and chemotherapy on plasma and cellular biomarkers of hypercoagulability.

Background: In breast cancer patients routine thromboprophylaxis is not recommended but individualized risk assessment is encouraged. The incorporation of hypercoagulability biomarkers could increase the sensitivity of risk assessment models (RAM) to identify patients at VTE risk. To this aim we investigated the impact of cancer-related characteristics on hypercoagulability biomarkers.

[Esthesioneuroblastoma].

Esthesioneuroblastoma is an uncommon malignancy originating from olfactive epithelium. Men are more frequently affected than women. Nasal symptoms are the most common revealing signs.

Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) around the Mediterranean area: standard of care.

Mediterranean area (MA) represents a zone of intermediate incidence (1-5/100,000) for NPC, the highest frequency being observed in North Africa (NA) where it is characterized by a bimodal age repartition due to a first adolescence peak. In MA and NA, NPC remain diagnosed at advanced stages which impact poorly on overall and disease-free survival. It's therapy in MA followed the progresses and standardisation of protocols, based on concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) alone or preceded by induction chemotherapy (ICT) in advanced (N2-3, T3-4) stages, while localized cases are managed irradiation alone.

Reappraisal of clinical outcome in adult medulloblastomas with emphasis on patterns of relapse.

Background: Clinical outcome and prognostic factors were assessed in adult medulloblastoma patients, with emphasis on patterns of relapse.

Patients And Methods: Records of 36 consecutive adult patients with medulloblastoma were reviewed. Patients were classified into 2 prognostic groups according to the extent of disease and quality of surgical excision based on the early postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.