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On the occasion of World Day of psoriasis, the association for the fight against psoriasis organizes conferences between patients and physicians. Objectives: To discuss the disease not easy to live and an update on current therapies, some of which are at the forefront of innovation. Interventions will take place Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 17h00 to 21h at Great Refectory of the Hotel Dieu – Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) – 1, place the hospital in Lyon 2nd. Admission is free.
easy to live with psoriasis?

The skin is covered with patches of red, thick and rough with areas of predilection for elbows, knees and scalp. In severe cases, the plates gradually spread, sometimes even affecting the entire body. The effect unsightly, associated with itching and sometimes chronic inflammatory rheumatism (rheumatic psoriasis) psoriasis are very debilitating disease that compromises quality of life of patients. No fewer than 2 million patients are affected (2 to 3% of the population). Read the rest of this entry »

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women under 40 years, and therefore reproductive age. If during a testicular cancer or cancer of the ovaries or uterus, is thought systematically to lower fertility, nothing is proposed at a breast cancer to preserve ovarian function. But treatments like chemotherapy can induce amenorrhea (no rules) temporary or permanent or worse early menopause irreversible. Hormone therapy proposed for premenopausal women is tamoxifen, which is not held responsible for infertility. It is usually prescribed for 5 years as a contraceptive and even back then the possibility of pregnancy, which obviously poses problems for women close to forty. After treatment there are between 5 and 28% of spontaneous pregnancies is to say the risk is as important and major issue.

Today, when ovarian function is disrupted proposes some solutions:

* The use of egg donation – but legislation in France makes this technique extremely difficult to achieve because the gift is free, and very few women are willing to be donors. Read the rest of this entry »