Photodynamic therapy as a treatment for digestive cancers

Introduction: Photodynamic Therapy or PDT has been used and validated in the endoscopic treatment of superficial esophagus lesions such as high grade dysplasia (HGD) and/or intramucosal carcinoma. PDT is also currently used as a palliative treatment of non resectable cholangiocarcinomas.Introduction : La PDT est une thérapeutique endoscopique à visée curative validée pour les lésions superficielles de l' sophage type dysplasies de haut grade (DHG) et/ou carcinome intra-muqueux (CIM). Elle est maintenant régulièrement utilisée à visée palliative en association avec les prothèses biliaires dans le traitement des cholangiocarcinomes non résécables

Régime sans gluten

Tuberculosis, despite its prevention, remains an endemic affection in Morocco. Although rare, pseudo surgical forms and especially peritonitis are mainly due to delayed diagnosis. We report the case of a 30-year-old woman, admitted for peritonitis. The diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis was established during surgery with macroscopic observation of granulations, and confirmed after biopsy specimens by identification of a giant lymph node cell granuloma with caseous necrosis. Outcome was favorable after appropriate antibiotic therapy. This observation emphasizes the fact that peritonitis, although a rare complication of peritoneal tuberculosis, poses problems of positive and differential diagnosis. Even if treatment is based on antituberculous quadritherapy, surgery is sometimes necessary and should be decided in due time

Risques et adaptation nutritionnelle en cancérologie

This article starts with a presentation of Caycedian Sophrology. We then evaluate its impact on stress reduction through a questionnaire on a students’ population. It appears that stress level increases between the two sessions in the control group while it decreases in the experimental group