[Registry of cancer in Reunion: data of the first five years of registration (1988-1992)]. / Le registre des cancers à La Réunion: données des cinq premières années d'enregistrement (1988-1992).

After explaining the purposes of a general cancer register in Reunion Island and describing objectives and running, main results from 1988 to 1992 are introduced. Comparison with EUROCIM network shows that cancer standardized incidence (all sites) in Reunion Island is at the same level as in Martinique and lower than in other registers. Nevertheless some cancers are particularly frequent. For men, as for most European registers, lung cancer (15%) is the most frequent diagnosed cancer, followed by esophagus and stomach cancers. Reunion Island belongs to areas with highest incidence rates for esophagus cancer. Breast cancer (21%), despite a lower incidence than in Europe, is still the first female cancer, followed by cervix cancer (18%) which incidence, as in Martinique, is very high. We don't notice high discrepancies between mortality rates and incidence rates in Reunion Island during that period.

[Epidemiological surveillance of grippe and dengue. Réunion, 1996]. / Surveillance épidémiologique de la grippe et de la dengue. La Réunion, 1996.

The local Welfare and Health Authorities together with the country council of Reunion Island set up a medical supervision network for influenza and dengue fever in March 1996. Influenza of which the spreading over the island has never been well-researched is anticipated by a vaccination campaign organised in an empirical way after a model from the mother country (France). Dengue fever of which one of the vectors is omnipresent on the island ranged in an epidemic way in 1978. The aim of this network based on watching doctors, the laboratories of the island as well as the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, is to adapt the prevention (Flu) and alert the Health Authorities in case of epidemic (Dengue). The article shows the results of 1996 observation and touches on the future of this type of supervision in a tropical environment.