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French program of breast cancer screening is implemented since15 years and results are in adequation with international guidelines except for participation. To answer to recurrent controversies about breast cancer screening, publications from National Institute of French cancer registry confirm the positive impact of screening on decreasing mortality for participating women. The harms of mammography (and not from screening) need to be communicated to the invited women to help them to make decision about participation but also the risk of worse prognosis in case of symptomatic cancer. The future of screening will be different and works are in progress to find new ways to select women who will beneficiate for screening and whose cancer needs to be treated. Until then, the only way to screen for breast cancer stays the mammographic process as well as other technics in case of dense breast or in case of family history of breast cancer., (Copyright © 2019 Société Française du Cancer. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The authors report their experience of the systematic use of a monobloc pin-plate in fractures of the trochanteric region in the elderly. The review of a series of 100 cases with a mortality of 16% demonstrates that this technique ensures excellent results compared with other published series. The biomechanical reliability of the monobloc pin-plate allows immediate weight-bearing in all patients. The technical simplicity and the better preoperative preparation of elderly patients allows an improvement in the postoperative course and consequently in patient survival. This operative technique can be proposed routinely with no restrictions.