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About 15 % of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis "PAF" develop one or more desmoid tumors in their lifetime. These are benign mesenchymal tumors with local aggressivity but with no potential for metastases. Most of the desmoids tumors result from a sporadic genetic anomaly in the β catenin gene. When related to familial adenomatous polyposis or "PAF", this mutation is not present, and the patients must be sent in genetic counselling. The PAF is a dominant autosomic illness related to a germinal mutation in the APC gene. Sometimes, these tumors can be the first manifestation of the illness. The diagnosis in a context of PAF can be easily done by imaging, but a pathological confirmation is needed. These tumors raise a therapeutic problem because of their heterogeneity and the absence of predictive biomarkers along illness evolution. The identification of prognostic biological and clinical factors would make easier the selection of patients requiring first-line treatment, as spontaneous remissions have also been observed in patients with FAP whom which an active surveillance could also be a valid therapeutic option. The particularity of desmoids tumors associated to PAF lies in their predominantly intra-abdominal location and the risk of complication. In the last ten years, surgery has largely given way to conservative treatments such as chemotherapy and more recently to tyrosine kinase inhibitors that have shown their efficacy with a significant improvement in progression-free survival of patients., (Copyright © 2019 Société Française du Cancer. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Cardiac and vascular toxicity of chemotherapies. Cardiovascular complications due to oncologic management are multiple including left ventricular systolic dysfunction, acute myocarditis, hypertension, and QT interval prolongation. Their frequencies are variable depending on the drugs administered. Anthracycline, molecular targeted agents and immune check points inhibitors could lead to left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Anthracyclines could provoke left ventricular systolic dysfunction, which is considered in most of cases as dose-dependent, cumulative and generally irreversible (type 1 toxicity). Targeted molecular agents could lead to left ventricular systolic dysfunction and/or congestive heart failure, which does not appear to be dose dependent, usually reversible at the cessation of treatment and/or the introduction of a cardio-protective treatment (type 2 toxicity)., Competing Interests: S. Ederhy déclare avoir reçu des honoraires d’Amgen, Bayer Pharma, BMS, Celgene, Daiichi Sankyo, Lilly, BMS, Janssen Cilag et Novartis. Y. Ancedy, S. Champiat, D. Lopez-Trabada-Ataz, R. Dulery déclarent n‘avoir aucun lien d’intérêts. A. Cohen déclare avoir reçu des fonds de recherche de Resicard et des honoraires d’AstraZeneca, Bayer Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline et Sanofi-Aventis.

Paclitaxel is conventionally used in a wide range of oncology indications. Nab-paclitaxel is synthesized by a process of high pressure homogenization of paclitaxel in the presence of human albumin and it was originally developed to reduce the toxicity usually associated with cremophor in soluble paclitaxel and to increase its penetration in tumor tissues. After the trials that led to its approval in first-line treatment of metastatic pancreatic carcinomas and in second line therapy for metastatic breast cancer, nab-paclitaxel is being tested for many other situations in oncology due to its profile of security and its good tolerance. Different lines of research are being developed about the possible biomarkers that could predict the effect of nab-paclitaxel. This review summarizes the results of trials that led to the approval of the nab-paclitaxel in advanced breast cancer and pancreatic cancer, and also resumes the lines of research to the future development of the drug., (Copyright © 2015 Société Française du Cancer. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)