Departments

Medical Departments

Medical Oncology Clinic (Medicine Dpt)

Presentation

Missions

The major missions of the medical oncology clinic are :
1) Medical management of patients with solid tumors
2) Supervision of the administration of anticancer agents to hospitalized or ambulatory patients
3) Follow-up of patients
4) Integration of the treatments in a multidisciplinary approach
5) Teaching of medical oncology
6) Active engagement in clinical and translational research
7) Active engagement inside national and international research groups
 

Organization of the clinic

- The medical team comprises 16 seniors (see figure 1)
- The clinic participates to the all Multidisciplinary rounds in relation to solid tumors
- The oncology medical team supervises in hospital the junior doctors in training as well as all the hospitalized patients
 

Field, technologies and methods

1) New drugs development (see Description below: Principles, organization and practice)
The clinical research unit has pursued dynamic phase I, II and III research in the area of new anti-cancer drug development. The unit consists of 14 oncological research nurses and a clinical research physician, dedicated to following all aspects of clinical trials
 

2) BrEAST Unit
The Breast European Adjuvant Study Team (BREAST) unit is a data center, the fundamental aim of which is to design, implement and conduct clinical trials in the field of adjuvant therapy of breast cancer

 

3) Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory
The translational research unit aims mainly to identify new molecular markers with a better prognostic or predictive value to individualize anti-cancer treatments
 

Research/perspectives

1) New drugs development (cancer patients)
2) Translational research (link between basic research and clinical practice)
3) Management of cancer in the Elderly
4) Study markers/technics of early response to therapy (circulating tumor cells, PET/CT,…)
5) Management of orphan tumors
6) Understanding the biology of resistant tumors
7) Pharmacogenetics
 

Key Figures

- 70 beds for hospitalized patients. Three beds for phase I patients
- Oncogeriatric unit
- 658 new patients for the Institute seen per year
- 13.000 patients seen per year at consultation
- 100 ongoing clinical protocols in solid tumors (in relation with research groups such as EORTC, industry, academic…)
- High impact factor of publications
- Ongoing Fellowship program
- Educational courses in oncology for junior doctors in training and for European oncologist
- Active participation to multidisciplinary rounds

 

New drugs development and clinical research unit of the medical oncology clinic (Principles, organization and practice) : click here

 

 

Responsable : Prof. Ahmad Awada

Updating of this page : 03/2012