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Resume Introduction La prise en charge de la douleur est un enjeu de sante publique important, particulierement en cancerologie. Dans une demarche d’evaluation des pratiques professionnelles, l’IRFC-FC a realise une enquete chez des patients presentant une tumeur solide metastatique osteophile en Franche-Comte. Les objectifs etaient d’evaluer la prevalence de la douleur, ses caracteristiques, sa prise en charge et son impact sur la qualite de vie. Methode Une enquete observationnelle, prospective et multicentrique a ete realisee via un questionnaire d’autoevaluation. Ont ete inclus les patients presentant un cancer metastatique du sein ou de la prostate pris en charge dans 5 hopitaux de jour de l’IRFC-FC sur une periode de 3 mois. Resultats Deux cent trente-trois questionnaires ont ete analyses. La prevalence de la douleur etait de 48,5 %. Trois-quarts des patients algiques avaient une douleur chronique de fond, d’intensite moderee a severe, associee ou non a des acces douloureux. Eu egard a l’intensite de leur douleur et a leur traitement antalgique, 42,0 % des patients semblaient sous-traites. Quatre-vingt-cinq pour cent des patients traites declaraient etre observants et estimaient que leur douleur etait bien prise en charge malgre un impact negatif sur la qualite de vie. Conclusion La mise en œuvre d’un chemin clinique est essentielle pour garantir une prise en charge standardisee, optimale et efficiente des patients algiques. L’evaluation de la satisfaction des soins et de la qualite de vie doit etre integree a la pratique clinique pour mieux identifier les patients algiques dont le traitement est inadapte.

Pain management is a major public health problem, especially in oncology. In order to assess professional practice, the IRFC-FC conducted a survey amongst patients with metastatic osteophilic solid tumor in Franche-Comté. The aims were to assess the pain prevalence, and its characteristics, its management and its impact on patients' quality of life in patients in pain.An observational, prospective and multicenter survey was conducted using a self-report questionnaire. Patients with metastatic breast or prostate cancer managed in 5 day-hospitals of the IRFC-FC over a period of three months were included.Two hundred thirty-three questionnaires were analyzed. Pain prevalence rate was 48.5%. Three quarters of patients in pain had chronic background pain, moderate to severe, with or without breakthrough pain. Considering their pain intensity and their analgesic therapy, 42.0% of patients seem to have an inadequate treatment. Eighty-five percent of treated patients reported to be compliant and felt that their pain was well managed despite a strong impact on their quality of life.The setting of a specific clinical pathway is essential to secure the standardized, optimal and efficient management of patients in pain. The assessment of patient satisfaction and quality of life must be integrated in clinical practice to identify patients in pain for which the treatment is inappropriate.

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: In patients with advanced NSCLC: to establish clinical effectiveness, in terms of overall survival (OS) and progression free survival and (PFS), of maintenance therapy compared with placebo or observation, which is considered as standard of care; to compare clinical effectiveness, in terms of OS and PFS, of different agents or combinations in the maintenance setting (i.e. chemotherapy vs targeted agent, chemotherapy plus targeted agent vs chemotherapy or targeted agent), and to assess the toxicity of maintenance therapy.

International audience; Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema is a distinct syndrome reported in patients who smoke. A 72-year-old, never-smoking female dairy farmer was referred for progressive dyspnoea on exertion, basal crackles on auscultation, normal spirometry and normal lung volumes but decreased diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide, centrilobular emphysema in the upper zones of the lungs and diffuse infiltrative lung disease in the lower zones on high-resolution CT scan. Bronchoalveolar lavage differential cell count showed 35% lymphocytosis, and precipitating antibodies for Wallemia sebi, Trichoderma species and Cladosporium sphaerospermum were identified. The diagnosis of farmer's lung disease with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema was retained. This case highlights for the first time that hypersensitivity pneumonitis should be suspected in the setting of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema in non-smoking patients.