Publications by authors named "Marjorie Boussac"
Purpose: Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) have an increased risk of developing late chronic diseases, which can be influenced by the cancer type and its treatment. These chronic diseases can be severe and disabling, typically emerging years to decades after treatment. These deficits negatively impact quality of life, intelligence quotient, and memory.
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- A study examined how well long-term childhood cancer survivors at high risk for cardiomyopathy followed cardiac screening guidelines, involving nearly 1,000 patients.
- Only 32% of participants had an echocardiogram in the last five years, with lower adherence among males, older survivors, and those with specific cancer types like Neuroblastoma and CNS tumors.
- Attending long-term follow-up visits significantly increased the likelihood of completing echocardiograms, highlighting the need for better strategies to encourage more survivors to participate in recommended cardiac surveillance.
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination by 2030, as targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO), requires that 90% of people with chronic infection be diagnosed and 80% treated. We estimated the cascade of care (CoC) for chronic HCV infection in mainland France in 2011 and 2016, before and after the introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs).
Methods: The numbers of people (1) with chronic HCV infection, (2) aware of their infection, (3) receiving care for HCV and (4) on antiviral treatment, were estimated for 2011 and 2016.
Background: Registries, a cornerstone of contemporary medicine, frequently suffer from incomplete documentation and losses to follow-up. By linking data to a single-payer national claims database, national registries may be enriched and the quality enhanced.
Aims: To explore the value of data from the French Système National des Données de Santé (SNDS) as a resource to enhance the quality of registries when combined with data from electronic case report forms, and to assess the power to minimize data gaps and losses to follow-up.
French uterine cancer recordings in death certificates include 60% of "uterine cancer, Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)"; this hampers the estimation of mortalities from cervix and corpus uteri cancers. The aims of this work were to study the reliability of uterine cancer recordings in death certificates using a case matching with cancer registries and estimate age-specific proportions of deaths from cervix and corpus uteri cancers among all uterine cancer deaths by a statistical approach that uses incidence and survival data. Deaths from uterine cancer between 1989 and 2001 were extracted from the French National database of causes of death and case-to-case matched to women diagnosed with uterine cancer between 1989 and 1997 in 8 cancer registries.
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