Publications by authors named "R Le Fur"
Introduction: Compliance with the recommendation that all tuberculosis (TB) patients be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has not yet been achieved in Canada or globally.
Methods: The experience of "opt-out" HIV testing of TB patients in the Province of Alberta, Canada is described over a 10-year period, 2003-2012. Testing rates are reported before and after the introduction of the "opt-out" approach.
Influence of the delay of adjuvant postoperative radiation therapy on relapse and survival in oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys
January 2001
Purpose: To determine whether the delay between surgery and the beginning of radiation therapy influences survival or the risk of local-regional relapse in oropharyngeal or hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas.
Methods And Materials: From 2052 patients referred to the Henri Becquerel Center for the radiation therapy of an oropharyngeal or hypopharyngeal cancer between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1992, 420 were included in a retrospective study. Exclusion criteria were another cancer, metastasis, incomplete resection, lack of homolateral lymph node resection, or previous chemotherapy.
Background And Purpose: A 5 week-hyperfractionated and accelerated radiotherapy regimen without reduction of the total dose was developed to fight tumour repopulation during treatment and tumour hypoxia. The purpose of the study was to try to improve loco-regional control in high risk head and neck carcinoma treated with curative radiotherapy.
Methods And Materials: From 1985 to 1995, a randomised controlled trial of the EORTC Cooperative Group of Radiotherapy (EORTC 22851) compared the experimental regimen (72 Gy/45 fractions/5 weeks) to standard fractionation and overall treatment time (70 Gy/35 fractions/7 weeks) in T2, T3 and T4 head and neck cancers (hypopharynx excluded).