Objective: Describing the clinical and subclinical characteristics on breast cancer patients treated with Anthracyclines at Thong Nhat hospital.Subjects and methods: a prospective descriptive study on 43 patients with breast cancer was treated with Anthracyclines with 4 to 6 cycles as determined by clinical doctor at Thong Nhat hospital. Results: Average age: 49.2 ± 3.2 years old. The age group accounted for the largest proportion in the study object was the 50-60 age group (48.84%). The percentage of patients who self-examined the tumor was the highest with 79.07%. There were 9.30% of patients with pain symptoms, 11.63% of patients with nipple discharge. Tumor position in the upper-external quadrant accounted for the largest percentage with 55.81%. The average size of tumors was 2.56 ± 1.2 (cm). The main form of lesions detected on ultrasound was the local lesion with over 80% with an unknown boundaryfeature (81.40%) and predominantly invasive (76.74%). The histopathological type accounted for the highest percentage was the invasive tubular carcinoma (79.07%), the medullary carcinoma andmucinous carcinoma body accounted for the lowest rate with 2.33% and 0%, respectively. The histological degree accounted for the highest percentage among the research subjects was degree 2with 50.18%. Stage III accounted for the highest rate with 46.51%.Conclusion: The most common age group for breast cancer was 50-60 years old, the main symptom was self-examination with breast tumors, breast cancer were mainly local tumor at the upper-externalposition. On ultrasound, the lesions were the local, unknown boundary, and invasive lesions. Breast cancer was mainly invasive ductal carcinoma, histologic degree 2.

Objectives: To evaluate the compliance of patients with treatment regime of type 2 diabetes on outpatients at Dong Thap Regional General Hospital. Objects and methods: Retrospective descriptive study on 240 patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and outpatient treatment at Dong Thap General Hospital. Results: The percentage of patients who always adhered to the treatment regime was not high: 38.40% of patients always limited the use of fast hyperglycemic foods; 30.28% of patients always limited the intake of high-fat foods; The rate of patients who always ate washy foods was 27.68%, the rate of patients who always limited drinking beer and alcohol was 28.12%, 31.45% of patients always consumed fiber foods. The rate of patients complying with exercise regimes was an average level: 53.48% patients had the regular adherence to exercise regimes. The rate of good compliance of using drugs was an average level of 60.43%, still having 11.30% of patients were poor drug compliance. Conclusion: The proportion of patients who always adhered to the treatment regime was not high. The percentage of patients adhering to the exercise regimen was moderate. The proportion of patients who complied with good drug administration was moderate.

Objective: Analyzing the dose regimen of carbapenem antibiotics used in pediatric patients at Can Tho Children’s Hospital.Objects and methods: retrospective-descriptive study on 140 medical records of patients being treated at departments of Can Tho Children’s Hospital during the period from June 1st, 2020 toDecember 31st, 2020. Results: Regarding the dosage regimen characteristics of meropenem showed that 20.3% and 10.8%of meropenem’s indications for the dose of meropenem for non-central nervous system infections and meningitis treament was appropriate according to the recommendations. Meanwhile, up to63.5% of the dose was higher than the recommended dose and 5.5% of the treatment dose was lower than the recommended dose. Regarding imipenem dosage regimen characteristics from the resultsshowed that 71.2% of the dose of imipenem for the treatment of infections non-central nervous system complied with recommendations according to the literature. However, more than 20% of the recommended dose for patients was lower than recommended dose. Conclusion: The meropenem dose regimen was consistent with the recommendation was low. The imipenem dose regimen was consistent with the relatively high recommendation.