[Place of innovative therapies in the management of cervical cancer]

Despite optimized screening and prevention strategies, cervical cancer remains a major public health problem, even in developed countries. In France, the incidence is estimated at 3159 cases per year in 2023. While the management of early-stage cases is now highly standardized, few therapeutic advances were made in the treatment of metastatic stages before 2021, before the therapeutic arsenal that we know today took off. The aim of this review is to summarize these advances.

[Sjögren's syndrome update: Clinical and therapeutic aspects]

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a systemic orphan disease. It is characterized by the involvement of epithelial tissues leading to the term of autoimmune epithelitis. New classification criteria have been developed in 2016. New scores have also been developed: a patient-reported outcome called ESSPRI and a score assessing systemic activity of the disease called ESSDAI. These new tools are very helpful to better stratify patients and to customize the management of this very heterogeneous disease. Among the autoimmune diseases, SS is associated with the highest risk of lymphoma. Five to ten percent of the patients will have a B cell lymphoma mostly a low-grade lymphoma developing from mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT). Major advances have been made in this field: pathogeny is better understood, new predictors are available and progresses have been made in the management of this severe complication. Research in the field of SS is very dynamic as illustrated by the high number of therapeutic trials. There is hope that these innovations, reviewed in the present article, will have potential significant repercussions for the patients in the next few years.

[Anticancer drugs: Which prices for therapeutic innovations?]

The expanding knowledge of the biological mechanisms underlying tumor development made it possible the recent emergence of new therapeutic approaches that are considered as undoubtedly innovative. Yet, to define and to evaluate the magnitude of a drug innovation require an examination of its intrinsic drug properties, medical utility as well as its mode of emergence. Recently, international academic societies, such as ESMO and ASCO, have proposed practical tools that may help quantifying the medical value of a given innovation. Currently, the sustained flux of therapeutic innovations in oncology is associated with an unprecedented growth of costs, the actual determinants of which remain under debate, but raising the critical issue of drugs pricing, and their potential individual or societal "financial toxicity".