Cinq à 10 % des cancers primitifs du tube digestif surviennent dans le contexte d'une prédisposition génétique majeure. Les risques tumoraux de ces formes « héréditaires » justifient la mise en place de protocoles de surveillance et de dépistage spécifiques et conduisent à discuter de l'indication de chirurgies prophylactiques sur le patient, mais aussi de la réalisation de tests moléculaires ciblés à ses apparentés.Dans le livre sont abordés :• le développement et la struc...

En France, le cancer colorectal se situe au 3e rang des cancers chez l'homme et au 2 e rang chez la femme. Bien que nos concitoyens ne s'y prêtent pas assez, un dépistage précoce et pratiquement gratuit a été mis en place par les autorités de santé, permettant une meilleure détection des cancers et des adénomes, une amélioration du diagnostic et de la prise en charge, et ainsi un recul de la mortalité. Cet ouvrage dresse un « état de l'art » de l'ensemble des problématiques de dépistage, d...

A look inside the historic mental hospital that served as the location for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—includes photos.Seen through the eyes of those who lived there, this book examines the world of a mental hospital established in Salem, Oregon, in 1883—where, in desperate attempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadly medications, cut holes in their heads, and sterilized them.Years of insufficient funding caused the hos...

The Oregon State Insane Asylum was opened in Salem on October 23, 1883, and is one of the oldest continuously operated mental hospitals on the West Coast. In 1913, the name was changed to the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). The history of OSH parallels the development and growth in psychiatric knowledge throughout the United States. Oregon was active in the field of electroshock treatments, lobotomies, and eugenics. At one point, in 1959, there were more than 3,600 patients living on the camp...

As the only maximum-security prison in the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) has housed some of the most violent criminals on the West Coast, including brutal serial killers Charley Panzram in 1915 and Jerry Brudos in 1969. Sixty men have been executed inside OSP. The prison was originally built in Portland in 1851 but moved to Salem 15 years later, after Oregon became a state. From that time forward, the Oregon State Penitentiary grew from 23 prisoners in 1866 to 1,912 by 1992. T...

Originally called Deer Creek, Roseburg was the creation of entrepreneur Aaron Rose. After becoming county seat for Douglas County in 1854, the city�s growth was assured. Roseburg became the bridge between the populated Willamette Valley and the mining districts of Southern Oregon. Situated in a panoramic valley created by the North and South Umpqua Rivers, Roseburg�s population increased dramatically over the next 155 years. In 1872, the Oregon and California Railroad arrived and the city ...