Marc Colonna

..The objectives of this study were to compare several tests to detect disease clustering, among which modelisation using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods...

..Estimate complete, limited-duration, and hospital prevalence of breast cancer in a French Département covered by a population-based cancer registry and in whole France using complementary information sources...

..The aim of this paper is to show how important are advanced tools and statistical techniques to better assess weak associations between the risk of cancer and past environmental exposures...

..The only way to understand these differences is to conduct specific studies including a description of stage at diagnosis, diagnosis procedures used for staging and details of treatment...

..This paper provides a prevalence estimate for 2002 and 2012 in France and an assessment of the trend in prevalence over the period 1993-2002...

..We show that the risks can appear weak from a statistical point of view but important from an epidemiologic point of view in the presentation of the results...

..Obviously, these findings do not exclude the possible role of other factors...

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..Results on "all cancers" illustrate those comments...

..Analysis of the temporal trend of epidemiological data is becoming increasingly popular. For the purpose, the JoinPoint is a widely used software. We present important elements involved when using some of the options of this software...

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..Describe time trends of incidence and mortality associated with thyroid cancer and provide 1 and 5-year survivals by histological group in French areas covered by cancer registries...

..The 10-year net survival confirmed the persistent unfavorable role of age in prognosis and the general improvement of cancer management over the last decade...

..3 per 100.000 versus 5.2. Conclusion. Incidence estimation using PMSI patient identifiers proved encouraging though still dependent on the assumption of uniform cancer treatments and coding...

..Until results of randomized studies on mass screening are available, the question of individual screening remains; improved knowledge of risk factors could be interesting...

..As Bayesian approaches may induce very different estimations, it is useful to consider the stability of the estimations as a criterion for evaluating the quality of the results...

..After prostate cancer, men had no greater risk of cancer, except for kidney cancer. Our results help to direct attention to regions especially vulnerable to secondary cancers after primary breast or colorectal cancer...

..In France, participation in organized colorectal cancer screening remains low. The objective of this study was to identify the determinants of participation in colorectal cancer screening in Isère, a French administrative entity...

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..Thus, our goal in this work was to use a new finer spatial scale to find out whether or not observed spatial variations might mask intramunicipality spatial variations...

..As illustration, we used data of the French Cancer Registries on relative survival of patients with colorectal cancer...

..Current estimations established from data for the years 1985 and 1995 can be used to establish a precise description of changing healthcare needs for colorectal cancer...

..Interval cancer rates are low during the first year. Higher rates for the second year and early stages of diagnosis could be explained by self-referred screening practice in our area...

..With some exceptions, these results indicate no association between either the type of brain tumour and contacts with animals, or with occupations that include a high level of contact with animals or a high level of contact with humans...

..It may be attributed to a possible screening effect or to an increase in the number of "incidentally" discovered cases linked to the use of modern diagnostic tools...

..The variations in the excess of the risk of cancer of the lung, head and neck were hardly compatible with a professional risk factor...

..This type of cancer is the most common in both men and women and these results enable the need for care or surveillance to be evaluated more accurately...

..The most frequent cancer sites are head and neck, breast, and large bowel. Most of the cancer sites present an increase in prevalence proportion between 1987 and 1992. The larger increases concern breast and prostate cancer...

..To determine whether the implementation of two-view mammography was followed by a reduction in the rates of interval cancers...

..A major French chlorine chemical plant (chlor-alkali process with diaphragm cell and manufacturing of organochlorine chemicals) has used or produced known or suspected carcinogenic compounds...

..We evaluate the feasibility of concomitant and adjuvant docetaxel combined with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) and androgen deprivation in high-risk prostate carcinomas...

..Our findings suggest that when taking into account grade and stage, the time-varying impact of young age at diagnosis is limited to grade 3 tumors, without evidence of worst prognosis at 5 years for the youngest women...

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..Prevalence of cancer is estimated to be 2% on average, with the highest values (3%) in Sweden and the lowest in Eastern Europe, with a minimum of approximately 1% in Poland...

..This subset of the prevalent population consists of those probably on intensive follow-up, or being treated for cancer recurrence or sequelae to primary therapy...

..We also recommend post-operative or exclusive radiotherapy which may be associated with concomitant chemotherapy...

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..The trend of lung cancer mortality among women should be emphasised since the situation will inevitably worsen in the coming years. It is already the third cause of cancer death among women...

..A nationwide database, such as hospital discharge system, could improve this estimate but its positive predictive value and sensibility should be evaluated...

..Morphology and hormone receptor status were confirmed as significant survival predictors in this population-based study, even after adjusting for age and stage at diagnosis...

..For most cancer sites, age at diagnosis was a negative prognostic factor but this effect was often limited to the first year after diagnosis...

..Interpretation of marked variation in survival with morphology is complicated by classification inconsistencies. The completeness and standardisation of cancer registry morphology data needs to be improved...

..The objective of this study was to provide updated estimates of national trends in cancer incidence and mortality for France for 1980-2005...

..To estimate survival in patients in whom uveal melanoma was diagnosed between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1994, in Europe...

..The surveillance of thyroid cancers in France should be enhanced...

..Flow cytometry indicated that this isoform was expressed on the surface of monocytes. These findings suggested that LILRA2 Delta 419-421 isoform encoded by the splice site SNP may play a role in SLE and MPA...

..Socio-economic and surveillance characteristics are independent prognostic factors of both breast cancer stage at diagnosis and of survival. Screening mammography is an independent prognostic factor of survival...

..001) and in 79.6% of the cases in stage III (in which it is recommended) with extremes from 63.6 to 94.4% (P=0.08). In conclusion, these results should alert practitioners and health care authorities in order to homogenize practices...

..Based on a large series of unselected patients, our results show that the site of the DVT and principally the bilaterality provides important prognostic information that may be used in the setting up of medical strategies...