[Relativity of the management of skin cancers. A plea for synergy between general practitioners and the dermatologist-oncologist]. / Relativité de la prise en charge des cancers cutanés. Plaidoyer pour la synergie entre le médecin généraliste et le dermatologue-oncologue.

The clinical diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous cancers represent a frequent situation in cancerology. About one third of all human cancers take their origin from the skin. The general practitioner and the dermatologist-oncologist play the key role in that field of health care.

[Cutaneous melanomas, a spectrum of emerging cancers in women of Wallonia. Outlook by the Mosan Study Group of Pigmented Neoplasms]. / Les mélanomes cutanés, un spectre de cancers émergents chez la femme en région Wallonne. Un regard porté par le Groupe Mosan d'Etude des Tumeurs Pigmentaires.

The Mosan Study Group of Pigmented Neoplasms was founded about 15 years ago. It has collected more than 20,000 cutaneous malignancies including melanomas and basal and squamous cell carcinomas. The incidence of these cancers is on the rise in Wallonia. In particular, malignant melanomas represent a spectrum of emerging cancers characterized by a proteiform biological outcome. They mostly affect young women. The major risk factor appears to be iterative and unwise ultraviolet exposures. The prevention of melanomas is basically founded on such a dogma and accordingly relies on sunscreens. However, controversies about their beneficial effects are rife and fueled by axiomas and contradictory sophisms. At the exception of surgery, the therapeutic options for the diverse types of melanomas do not yet fulfill the scope of evidence-based medicine.

Candida albicans septicemia with folliculitis in heroin addicts.

Disseminated candidiasis occurring in heroin abusers has been reported in the recent years as a peculiar type of septicemia. Dermatological lesions consist of folliculitis with Candida albicans within hair shafts.