Adjuvant chemotherapy for completely resected IIA-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer: compliance to guidelines, safety and efficacy in real-life practice.

Background: Since randomised clinical trials demonstrated a survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) following curative-intent lung surgery, AC has been implemented as a standard therapeutic strategy for patients with a completely resected IIA-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Regarding the moderate benefit of AC and the lack of literature on AC use in real-life practice, we aimed to evaluate compliance to guidelines, AC safety and efficacy in a less selected population.

Methods: Between January 2009 and December 2014, we retrospectively analysed 210 patients with theoretical indication of AC following curative-intent lung surgery for a completely resected IIA-IIIA NSCLC.

[Dry sausage mould hypersensitivity pneumonitis: three cases].

Introduction: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) can occur as a consequence of inhaling a wide range of different antigens. The clinical diagnosis is based on five main criteria as proposed by the GERM'O'P.

Case Reports: We present in this report three cases of occupational hypersenstitivity pneumonitis caused by inhalation of dry sausage mould.

Cryotherapy in early superficial bronchogenic carcinoma.

Background: Treatment of early superficial bronchogenic carcinoma (ESBC) is under debate, and no consensus has been achieved. Different therapeutic methods have been proposed, including surgical resection and endoscopic methods.

Study Objective: To assess the efficacy of cryotherapy in patients with ESBC.

[Mediastinal adenopathies metastatic from a basocellular skin carcinoma].

Skin basocellular carcinoma is very frequent, and does not usually cause distant metastasis. However, a few cases of distal lymph node, pulmonary, bone metastasis have been described in the literature. In the present case, we report a basocellular mediastinal lymph node metastasis.