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For the first time, the incidence of cervical cancer was estimated in French Guiana, an overseas French Territory of South America. A certified cancer registry collected exhaustive data on cervical cancer between 2003 and 2005. The age-standardized rate of invasive cervical cancer was 30.3 per 100,000 women. Women from rural areas had lesions with a significantly greater extension than women from urban areas. Compared to South American figures, the standardized incidence of cervical cancer seemed relatively high when viewed in comparison with the gross domestic product per capita. The curative orientation of the health system should move from opportunistic screening for cervical cancer to organized screening, with an emphasis on the rural parts of French Guiana.
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Programas de Rastreamento , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/diagnóstico , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/epidemiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Guiana Francesa/epidemiologia , Humanos , Incidência , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Prognóstico , América do Sul/epidemiologiaRESUMO
We report a case of invasive gastric infection caused by Monascus ruber observed in a patient from French Guiana with gastric adenocarcinoma. The originality of this case is that, first, this invasive mycosis is extremely rare and, second, the probable mode of infection was by the consumption of Monascus ruber-contaminated food.
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Adenocarcinoma/complicações , Microbiologia de Alimentos , Gastrite/diagnóstico , Monascus/isolamento & purificação , Micoses/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Gástricas/complicações , Animais , Peixes , Guiana Francesa , Gastrite/microbiologia , Histocitoquímica , Humanos , Masculino , Microscopia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Micoses/microbiologiaRESUMO
Human polycystic echinococcosis is a parasitic infection caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus vogeli which occurs in rural areas of Central and South America. Abdominal echinococcosis caused by E. vogeli is reported for the first time in a child, a 6-year-old boy in French Guiana. The diagnosis was made by histological and molecular techniques. In tropical regions, this neglected disease must be considered even in children.
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Equinococose/diagnóstico , Equinococose/patologia , Echinococcus/isolamento & purificação , Animais , Biópsia , Criança , Equinococose/parasitologia , Guiana Francesa , Histocitoquímica , Humanos , Masculino , Técnicas de Diagnóstico MolecularRESUMO
For the first time the incidence and mortality of breast cancer were estimated in French Guiana, an overseas French Territory of South America. A certified cancer registry collected exhaustive data on breast cancer between 2003 and 2005. The age-standardized rate of breast cancer was 47.1 per 100 000 women. The age-standardized death rate was 11.0 per 100 000 women. Although the standardized incidence and death rates were lower than in metropolitan France and South America, the ratio between incidence and mortality showed that the prognosis of breast cancer in French Guiana was worse than in metropolitan France (23 deaths per 100 incident cases versus 17 deaths per 100 incident cases, respectively). The demographics of French Guiana, suggests that mass organized screening may benefit from lowering the age of its target population.