[Multidisciplinary meetings in oncology do not impact the physician-patient relationship].

Context: The setting of multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) by the French Cancer Plan has introduced new decisional elements in the patient-physician relationship in oncology.

Methods: To assess the potential impact of MDM on this relationship, a study was conducted at the Tours Hospital: 145 questionnaires were collected from patients whose files have been discussed in MDM, 40 questionnaires were collected from physicians attending these meetings and an analysis of 324 files was performed.

Results: Patients recognize the decisional process of MDM as reassuring for 80% of them.

[Decision process in oncology: the importance of multidisciplinary meeting].

Multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) in oncology has been institutionalised in France by the Cancer Plan. This study aims to determine the place of MDM in the decision process. From November 2004 to July 2005, we observed 29 meetings at the Tours Hospital and 324 case presentations, 80 in orthopaedics, 151 in gastroenterology and 93 in chest medicine.

[Perception of cancer by general practitioners. Development over 15 years].

Fifteen years after two surveys among general practitioners in the Southwest of France, concerning their attitudes towards cancer patients, a new survey was made using the same questions. In the spring of 1991, 731 general practitioners in Gironde were asked by a written questionnaire sent by mail: 261 answers (36%) forming a fair sample, were analyzed. Though incidence of cancer in physician's practice is low, these patients represent an important burden.

[Impact of induction chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer].

Two hundred and six women with a breast cancer T2 ou T3, N0, N1, M0 were randomized. One hundred and one had mastectomy and 78 with at least one poor prognosis factor received adjuvant chemotherapy. One hundred and five received first chemotherapy and 64 out of the 105 were proposed breast conservation.