by Stephane Cailmail | 20 Oct 2020 | General news, Publications, Research
The work presented in this article is based on a clinical observation: 3 children from the same family all suffered from B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). Knowing that it is a very rare disease, we suspected a genetic predisposition and by reading the genome of...
by Stephane Cailmail | 16 Oct 2020 | General news, Publications, Research
Radiotherapy is one of the therapeutic weapons with the surgery of local cancer treatment. Radiation therapy involves exposing part of the body to ionizing radiation. The principle of ionizing radiation is to deliver a certain amount of energy, the importance of which...
by Stephane Cailmail | 15 Oct 2020 | General news, Publications, Research
Coordinated by the European Biomedical Imaging Research Institute (EIBIR, Austria), the H2020 MEDIRAD project (http://www.medirad-project.eu) is based on a consortium of 33 partners representing 14 European countries. This project aims to explore the effects of...
by Stephane Cailmail | 8 Oct 2020 | General news, Publications, Research
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a cancer with a poor prognosis (5-year survival rate of less than 7%). Its stroma, composed mainly of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF), contributes to the aggressiveness of this tumour. In this study we identify that the...
by Stephane Cailmail | 2 Oct 2020 | General news, Publications, Research
While many cellular mechanisms leading to chemotherapy resistance have been identified, there is a growing awareness that mechanical properties of tumours, such as their ability to deform, could contribute to the inefficiency of treatments. Here, when we talk about...
by Stephane Cailmail | 31 Jul 2020 | Actualités générales, General news, Publications, Research
For patients with refractory or relapsing testicular cancer after standard chemotherapy, more aggressive chemotherapy with carboplatin and etoposide may be used. After this high-dose chemotherapy, a stem cell transplant is performed to replace those that have been...
