The path to Family Medicine in Tunisia. Strategic analysis.

Background: Health system reforms in many countries have shown that the delivery of integrated primary health care services according to family medicine is the most efficient approach to achieve universal health coverage. In Tunisia, the issue is therefore the capacity of our health system to integrate a care approach based on family practice.

Aim: To assess the preparedness to implement family medicine in our country Methodology: this is a qualitative study carried out over a period of 9 months during the year 2017.

Postoperative recurrence of primary lung cancer: anatomo-clinical and therapeutic study.

Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Even after radical resection, the rate of recurrence of non-small cell lung cancer remains high.

Aim: To identify the profile of patients operated for lung cancer and to study the prognostic factors of tumor recurrence.

Pulmonary Sarcomatoid carcinoma: a surgical diagnosis and prognostic factors.

Introduction: Pulmonary Sarcomatoid Carcinoma (PSC) is a rare group of tumors accounting for about 0.4% of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). Five subtypes were described: pleomorphic carcinoma, spindle cell carcinoma, carcinosarcoma, giant cell carcinoma and pulmonary blastoma.

Brain metastases of non-small cell lung cancer: prognostic factors and management.

Background: The prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with brain metastasis (BM) is dark. The aim of our study was to analyze the prognostic factors after the onset of BM and to evaluate the current management of BM.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study that included 100 patients diagnosed with primary NSCLC with BM.