Cancer is a progressive disease characterized by multiple attacks and leading in one out of two cases to a painful death. Pain that can be parietal, visceral or bone is related ...

Coughing is a reflex action in which successive inspiration, a brief closing of the glottis, and then immediately after the pressurization of the rib cage, a sudden opening of the glottis, ...

Dysphagia is defined as discomfort during food intake.Habitually one distinguishes dysphagia oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia. They can move gradually or acutely. In chronic ...

EPIDEMIOLOGY: Breast cancer is the most common of all cancers in women in industrialized countries. In France, about 42 000 new cases were diagnosed in 2000, representing almost a doubling ...

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND AND PRINCIPLES OF SCREENING: The cervical cancer represents 437,000 new cases per year worldwide and about 23 000 deaths. It is the second most common cancer ...

Annually in France there are about 36 000 new cases of colorectal cancer. The average age of onset is 70 years. This is a rare cancer before age 50 (less than 5%). Its incidence has ...

* Tobacco: high risk beyond 20 PA; Carcinogenic: benzopyrene and polycyclic hydrocarbons; nitrosamines;phenols; arsenic. * Other FDR: asbestos (amphibole overcoats, for little or no ...

* Tobacco: high risk beyond 20 PA; Carcinogenic: benzopyrene and polycyclic hydrocarbons; nitrosamines;phenols; arsenic. * Other FDR: asbestos (amphibole overcoats, for little or no ...

A- esophageal squamous cancer: definition, incidence, epidemiological and etiological factors Squamous esophageal cancer, like other cancers of the upper aerodigestive sphere develops ...

* The cancer increases by 10 the risk of lung cancer; beyond 30 PA risk is 50 times than in non-smoking * This is the major factor in the development of COPD. End-stage parenchymal ...