Non-adherence to treatment with cytoreductive and/or antithrombotic drugs is frequent and associated with an increased risk of complications in patients with polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia (OUEST study).

The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence, causes and impact of non-adherence to oral and subcutaneous chronic treatments for patients with polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia. Patients receiving cytoreductive drugs for polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia were recruited at our institution ( registry). They completed a one-shot questionnaire designed by investigators ( study).

[Palliative care, a medical discipline dealing with the end of life].

Insofar as they take into account, not only the physical needs of the dying, but also their psycho-affective ones, Palliative Care are, with time, becoming a full-fledged area of medical specialization, the one which deals with the last phase of life. In order to be really efficient, that medical activity requires to resort to numerous skills: those of doctors, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists..