Breast Cancer Profile in a Group of Patients Followed up at the Radiation Therapy Unit of the Yaounde General Hospital, Cameroon.

Objective. To describe the profile of breast cancer in the patients attending the radiation therapy unit of Yaounde General Hospital. Method.

[Anatomical-clinical presentation and prognostic factors in cancers of the cervix at the General Hospital of Yaounde].

The objective of this work was to search for and precise all the facts related to clinical anatomo and the prognosis capable of individualising the sick in our midst. We proposed to analyse 111 files of cases treated for the cancer of the uterine neck in the gynaecology services and cancerology-radiotherapy in the General Hospital, Yaounde. All the facts related to the clinical anatomo presentations of the patients were noted as well as the therapeutic results in accordance with the facts and the technical means of treatment.

An advanced case of double primary malignancy involving the breasts and uterine cervix: satisfactory response to non-surgical management.

Double primary cancers are fairly rare. We report here a case of metachronous lesions; advanced cancer of the breasts and squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. What is peculiar in this case is the rather unusual positive response to conservative treatment.

[Problems with the approach to diagnosis and treatment of testicular cancer in a developing country: the case of an eight-year-old boy from Cameroon].

Testicular cancer is believed to be rare among members of the black sub-Saharan population and has therefore been little studied in Africa. This may account for the problems encountered in the treatment of this condition, which are perfectly illustrated by this clinical case. We present here a brief report of the optimal diagnostic methods and therapeutic indications for this malignant disease.

[Therapeutic management of primary digestive lymphomas at Yaoundé: analysis of a series of 46 cases].

The aim of this study was to identify the principal deficiencies and difficulties associated with the treatment of primary digestive lymphomas at Yaounde. We analyzed the medical records of 46 patients treated at Yaounde General Hospital over a period of 7 years (January 1989 to December 1996). The study population consisted of 24 men (52%) and 22 women (48%), giving a sex ratio of 1.

[The value of medical imaging in the diagnosis and assessment of local and regional extension of cancers of the cavum at Yaounde].

In this work, we aimed to provide a clear description of the contribution to and role of major imaging techniques in the diagnosis of cancers of the cavum and assessment of their local and regional expansion. This should provide doctors with a useful guide for decisions concerning the imaging technique to be used. This is a retrospective analysis of 41 cases of cavum cancer, all confirmed by histology.

[Treatment of early T1 small T2N breast cancers. Our experience at the Yaounde General Hospital. 21 cases].

From February 1989 through February 1993, a group of 23 patients suffering from T1 mammary carcinoma small T2 N-MO was treated in the radiotherapy department of the Yaoundé General Hospital, according to a simplified procedure. A first conservative surgery of tumorectomy type (3 cases) and quandrantectomy type (4 cases) was carried out, followed by a postoperative irradiation. In 14 cases, a Patey type radical surgery preceded a local/regional radiotherapy.

[Cancer localisation in men and women aged over 50 in Cameroon].

The aim of this study was to present the sites of cancers diagnosed in men and women aged 50 years and above in Cameroon. From the registries of the pathology laboratory of the Yaoundé Central Hospital which at the national level receives the majority of samples sent for histopathology analysis, we recorded all cases of cancers diagnosed in people aged 50 years and above, during the period from 1st January 1987 to 31st August 1996 (9 years 8 months). 1,925 cancers were recorded: -1,005 of these (52.

Superior vena cava tumoral thrombosis revealing a Burkitt's lymphoma and a lymphoblastic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A case report.

Superior vena cava thrombosis (SVCT) is a rare pathology, though of great significance since it implies the development of a malignant process. The most common etiologies are basically bronchopulmonary and mediastinal tumors. Observations involving 2 patients presenting with superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) are reported in this study, in which radiologic investigations (chest roentgenogram, computed tomography scan of the thorax, and superior vena cavography) revealed thrombosis of the SVC disclosing in both cases a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

[Management of cervical cancers in Yaounde. 111 cases].

Over a 3-year period, 111 patients presenting histologically documented cervical carcinoma were treated in the Department of Cancerology and Radiotherapy at the General Hospital in Yaounde, Cameroon. Available therapeutic modalities included surgery and radiation therapy with a mean energy of 1.25 Mev of cobalt 60 which were used alone or in combination.

[Social, economical and educational causes of late diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Cameroon].

The aim of the study was the identification of the social, economical and educational causes of late diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Cameroon. The interview of 200 consecutive patients with histologically proven cancer was performed between November 1988 and November 1990 in the Department of Radiotherapy at the University of Yaoundé Hospital. The interview followed a pre-written questionnaire.

[Rare association of a non-functional retroperitoneal paraganglioma and nephrotic syndrome].

Non functional retroperitoneal paragangliomas are rare: less than 50 cases in literature. They are usually asymptomatic and can attain reasonable dimensions. The association with nephrotic syndrome is exceptional.

[Benign sacro-coccygeal teratoma. A case report in Yaounde, Cameroon].

The authors describe a cases of sacrococcygeal teratoma observed in an infant after pregnancy without ultrasound surveillance. The mass was located in the buttock with a mainly exo-pelvic extension. There was no other malformation.

[Problematic management of tumors with a very high proliferation coefficient: a case of an embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the right orbit in an eleven-year-old child].

We propose through the retrospective analysis of this document, to explain the inefficiency of the action of chemo and radiotherapy on tumours with a high proliferation coefficient but which are however known to be highly sensitive as well as curable with chemo and radiotherapy. This study shows the technical conditions and dispositions for a better therapeutic approach in these tumours with a rapid growth.

[Benign giant epignathic teratoma in the newborn. Apropos of an unusual clinical case].

A rare case of giant epignathus teratoma with intracranial extension is reported in a male newborn. Pre-operative diagnosis of teratoma was made or suspected on radiological evidence of calcification within the tumor and increased level of alpha-foetoprotein. Optimal treatment consisted in complete surgical resection.

Is cancer of the prostate rare in tropical (black) Africa? Case series from the Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire and the Hospital General de Yaounde from 1986 to 1990.

The objective of this study was to determine the crude incidence of cancer of the prostate in a hospital-based population. Patients presenting at urological clinics were studied using a standard proforma. The settings included the urological outpatient clinics and hospital wards of the University Hospital Center (CHU) and the Yaounde General Hospital (HGY)--Institutions of the University of Yaounde I, Faculty of medicine and biological sciences, Centre Pasteur de Yaounde.

[Solitary extra-osseous ovarian plasmacytoma. Apropos of an unusual case in a 12 year old child].

A rare case of extramedullary or solitary ovarian plasmocytoma in a 12 years old patient is reported. Surgery consisted of left adnexectomy associated with omentectomy. Chemotherapy with abdomino-pelvic iradiation were effectuated afterwards.