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Open AccessIncreasing access to fertility preservation for women with breast cancer: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial in France
With the increase in the number of long-term survivors, interest is shifting from cancer survival to life and quality of life after cancer. These include consequences of long-term side effects of treatment, su...
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Open AccessLink between the referring physician and breast and cervical cancers screening: a cross-sectional study in France
The aims of the “médecin traitant” or referring physician (RP) reform, introduced in France in 2004, were to improve the organisation and quality of care and to allow for greater equity, particularly in terms ...
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Open AccessAccess to information and oncofertility consultation for young women with breast cancer: a population-based study
Non-menopausal women with breast cancer treated with chemotherapy are at intermediate risk of post-treatment amenorrhea and decreased fertility. Although they should receive appropriate information, studies un...
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Outcomes of comprehensive geriatric assessment and surgical management in head and neck cancers of the elderly: an observational study
The aims of this study were to assess the survival benefit of optimal vs suboptimal management in elderly patients presenting with upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer for which surgery was the standard of ...
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Open AccessExperimental system of care coordination for the home return of patients with metastatic cancer: a survey of general practitioners
To promote improved coordination between general practice and hospital, the French clinical trial CREDO (“Concertation de REtour à DOmicile”) is testing an innovative experimental consultation for patients wit...
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Open AccessImpact of a health literacy intervention combining general practitioner training and a consumer facing intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening in underserved areas: protocol for a multicentric cluster randomized controlled trial
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer burden worldwide. In France, it is the second most common cause of cancer death after lung cancer. Systematic uptake of CRC screening can improve survival r...
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Population-Based Cancer Registries: A Data Stream to Help Build an Evidence-Based Cancer Policy for Europe and for European Countries
A population-based cancer registry (PBCR) is an ongoing surveillance system to collect, store, manage, analyse and disseminate information on the occurrence of cancer in a defined population. Modern cancer reg...
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Open AccessImproving communication between the general practitioner and the oncologist: a key role in coordinating care for patients suffering from cancer
Patients suffering from cancers are increasingly numerous in general practice consultations. The General Practitioner (GP) should be at the heart of the management of patients. Several studies have examined th...
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Open AccessUsing ecological socioeconomic position (SEP) measures to deal with sample bias introduced by incomplete individual-level measures: inequalities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis as an example
When studying the influence of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health from data where individual-level SEP measures may be missing, ecological measures of SEP may prove helpful. In this paper, we illustrate th...
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Current impact of age and comorbidity assessment on prostate cancer treatment choice and over/undertreatment risk
We evaluated the influence of age and comorbidity (Charlson score assessment) on localized prostate cancer therapeutic management and the risk of prostate cancer over- and under-treatment.
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Open AccessAssessment of the ecological bias of seven aggregate social deprivation indices
In aggregate studies, ecological indices are used to study the influence of socioeconomic status on health. Their main limitation is ecological bias. This study assesses the misclassification of individual soc...
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Enabling the transferability of complex interventions: exploring the combination of an intervention’s key functions and implementation
Several public health interventions are not described, not evaluated and not transferred. The objective was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using a description model making a distinction between...
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Primary care physicians and oncologists are partners in cancer announcement
The primary care physician (PCP) is central to cancer patients’ management. Announcement of the diagnosis is a critical time for patients, even if they wish to be fully informed. The French National Cancer Pla...
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Guideline sheets on the side effects of anticancer drugs are useful for general practitioners
General practitioners (GPs) are more and more involved in the treatment of cancer patients but feel not informed enough about anticancer treatments and associated side effects. Better communication with treatm...
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Open AccessTotal and partial cancer prevalence in the adult French population in 2008
To provide estimations of partial and total prevalence of 24 cancer sites in France in 2008. The estimations of partial prevalence were compared with the previous estimations for 2002.
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Open AccessAdverse childhood experiences and premature all-cause mortality
Events causing stress responses during sensitive periods of rapid neurological development in childhood may be early determinants of all-cause premature mortality. Using a British birth cohort study of individ...
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Open AccessChildhood adversity as a risk for cancer: findings from the 1958 British birth cohort study
To analyse whether Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are associated with an increased risk of cancer.
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The embodiment of adverse childhood experiences and cancer development: potential biological mechanisms and pathways across the life course
To explore current evidence of the physiological embedding of stress to discuss whether adverse childhood experiences (ACE) causing chronic or acute stress responses may alter fundamental biological functions.
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Cost study of the clinical management of prostate cancer in France: results on the basis of population-based data
Prostate cancer is an important disease in terms of economic implications because of its increasing incidence and health care costs. We assessed the direct costs of the clinical management of prostate cancer i...
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Prospective studies of dietary alpha-linolenic acid intake and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis
Individual-based studies that investigated the relation between dietary alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) intake and prostate cancer risk have shown inconsistent results. We carried out a meta-analysis of prospective...
