[Setting up supportive care in oncology: reflexions and suggestions.].

A group of 19 health professionals implicated in supportive care wanted to suggest some reflexions for organization, setting and evaluation of the supportive care in institutions and health territories. The suggested organization must be applicable to any cancer patient and the place of the care whatever the age, the stage of the disease; in the future, must be applicable to any patient with serious chronic illness. This organization must allow to optimize the accompaniment and the care of the patients and their close relations by 1) precise and regular analysis of their needs; 2) the respect of the continuity of the health care; 3) the setting of collaborative practice and transversality in the care.

High serum vascular endothelial growth factor correlates with disease activity of spondylarthropathies.

Angiogenesis is involved in chronic inflammatory joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a crucial role in angiogenesis. The spondylarthropathies (SpA) are characterized by enthesitis and synovitis, in which blood vessels participate.

[Acute allergic colitis caused by ACTH].

The case of a woman suffering from urticaria of the colon is reported. The original endoscopic images were described and its allergic (corticotrophin) origin was documented through clinical arguments and in vivo and in vitro tests. The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.