[Inflammation and cancer : a complex two-way relationship].

The relationships between inflammation and cancer are known since the original work by Virchow in the 19th century and have been largely confirmed after-wards. An interesting question is what might be the primum movens. Numerous clinical observations have shown that a chronic inflammatory state, as that observed with some infections, toxic agents or dysimmune diseases, may be associated with the development of cancer later on.

[Inflammation during COVID-19].

Infection due to SARS-CoV-2 is associated with clinical features of diverse severity. Severe disease includes biological criteria of both inflammation and coagulation activation, and high circulating levels of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The most critical patients present with acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiple organ failure, resembling bacterial sepsis.

WITHDRAWN: A single center experience in resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma : the limitations of the surgery-first approach. Critical review of the literature and proposals for practice update.

The article has been withdrawn at the request of the authors and editor because of incorrect authorship, which is considered a form of unethical publication. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.

A single center experience in resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma : the limitations of the surgery-first approach. Critical review of the literature and proposals for practice update.

Background And Study Aims: The current standard of care for resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is surgery-first followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. We review our single center experience in a PDAC cohort managed by the surgery-first strategy. We then compare our data to those of Belgian and international literature.

[Malignant phyllodes tumour : a case report].

A 28 year old woman has suffered over the previous month from a post-traumatic swelling sensation of the left breast. Ultrasonography demonstrates a 9 cm, sharply-cut, rounded, hypo-echogenic lesion. Surgery is performed, with the hypothesis of an haematoma.

[CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THE ACCURACY AND LIMITATIONS OF FROZEN SECTION IN THYROID PATHOLOGY: AN EVIDENCE-BASED ASSESSMENT].

Palpable thyroid nodules are present clinically in 4-7% of the population and their prevalence increases to 50%-67% when using high-resolution neck ultrasonography. By contrast, thyroid carcinoma (TC) represents only 5-20% of these nodules, which underlines the need for an appropriate approach to avoid unnecessary surgery. Frozen section (PS) has been used for more than 40 years in thyroid surgery to establish the diagnosis of malignancy.

Belgian consensus guidelines for follow-up of women with cervical cytological abnormalities.

In medical care cervical cancer screening is important because it enables the detection of precancer and cancer at an early stage. By adequate treatment after a screening-detected lesion it helps to reduce the mortality related to cervical cancer. Worldwide, many millions of women have smears taken at a more or less regular base and of these, approximately 7% are abnormal, and follow-up is thus required.

[Vaccination perspective against human papillomavirus and consequences for the screening of uterine cervical neoplasm].

The link between cervical cancer and some types of human papillomavirus (HPV) has generated, in recent years, a great interest for the development of anti-HPV vaccines. The purpose of this article is to review the current perspectives for anti-HPV prophylactic vaccination and to describe the potential implications for the cervical cytology screening programs.

[Immunologic response to (pre)neoplastic cervical lesions associated with human papillomavirus].

Etiopathogenic and epidemiological studies have demonstrated that viruses are etiologically linked to approximately 20% of all human malignancies worldwide. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the best characterized viruses associated with human cancer diseases, especially in the uterine cervix. Although the role of HPV is well established in the cellular transformation and maintenance of the malignant phenotype of keratinocytes, the viral infection by itself is not sufficient for cancer development.

A patient who survived total colonic ulcerative colitis surinfected by cytomegalovirus complicated by toxic megacolon and disseminated intravascular coagulation.

The authors report the case of a patient aged 60-year-old who survived ulcerative colitis complicated by toxic megacolon and disseminated intravascular coagulation. This patient was not known for this ulcerative colitis and was first hospitalised for a suspicion of diverticulitis. The admission symptoms were fever, abdominal pain and bloody diarrhoea.