Publications by authors named "Christophe Tournigand"

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  • A study was conducted to assess the prevalence and outcomes of severe neutropenia induced by intravenous chemotherapy in cancer patients at Greater Paris University Hospitals from 2016 to 2021.
  • Out of 40,660 chemotherapy patients, 661 (1.6%) developed severe neutropenia, with a median age of 63 years, and common cancers being lung and breast cancer; around 12% died within 30 days.
  • The presence of bacterial infections and certain blood count levels were identified as key prognostic factors in predicting worse outcomes, indicating a need for better management strategies for these patients despite the use of prophylactic treatments.
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Background: Health policymakers have tried to improve the care pathway for cancer patients by improving collaboration between participating healthcare professionals by involving the general practitioner (GP).

Objective(s): To explore how patients, GPs, oncologists and nurses interacted and how they perceived, in their practice, professional roles, collaboration, and cancer care pathways.

Methods: Between January 2018 and December 2021, we conducted a qualitative study that combined phenomenology and a general inductive analysis, based on semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their GPs, oncologists, and nurses in France.

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Background And Objective: Trough abiraterone concentration (ABI C) of 8.4 ng/mL has been identified as an appropriate efficacy threshold in patients treated for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The aim of the phase II OPTIMABI study was to evaluate the efficacy of pharmacokinetics (PK)-guided dose escalation of abiraterone acetate (AA) in underexposed patients with mCRPC with early tumour progression.

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Background & Aims: Accumulating data has shown the rising incidence and poor prognosis of early-onset gastrointestinal cancers, but few data exist on biliary tract cancers (BTC). We aimed to analyse the clinico-pathological, molecular, therapeutic characteristics and prognosis of patients with early onset BTC (EOBTC, age ≤50 years at diagnosis), versus olders.

Methods: We analysed patients diagnosed with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and gallbladder adenocarcinoma between 1 January 2003 and 30 June 2021.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic might have delayed cancer diagnosis and management. The aim of this systematic review was to compare the initial tumor stage of new cancer diagnoses before and after the pandemic.

Methods: We systematically reviewed articles that compared the tumor stage of new solid cancer diagnoses before and after the initial pandemic waves.

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  • The study examines how individual differences in drug absorption (pharmacokinetics) impact the effectiveness and side effects of cabozantinib in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
  • Out of 78 patients analyzed, 67% experienced dose-limiting toxicity, and higher drug concentration in the blood was identified as a significant risk factor for these side effects.
  • The research suggests that monitoring drug levels early in treatment could help optimize cabozantinib therapy, particularly for frail patients starting on lower doses.
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  • Primary liver cancer can originate from two cell types, leading to different types of tumors: hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICCA), with combined tumors (cHCC-CCA) displaying mixed characteristics.
  • Researchers utilized deep learning to categorize tumors in a study involving 405 cHCC-CCA patients, successfully distinguishing between HCC and ICCA types.
  • This deep learning method showed potential for enhancing treatment strategies and improving patient outcomes for those with complex liver cancers.
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Background: The impact of adapted physical activity (APA) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (aPDAC) is unknown. This study evaluated whether APA in addition to standard care improved HRQoL in patients who have aPDAC who are receiving first-line chemotherapy.

Patients And Methods: Patients with locally advanced/metastatic PDAC and an ECOG performance status of 0 to 2 were randomized (1:1) to receive standard care (standard arm) or standard care plus a home-based 16-week APA program (APA arm).

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Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have introduced a significant advancement in cancer management. These compounds are administered orally, and their absorption holds a pivotal role in determining their variable efficacy. They exhibit extensive distribution within the body, binding strongly to both plasma and tissue proteins.

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Objectives: Medico-administrative data are promising to automate the calculation of Healthcare Quality and Safety Indicators. Nevertheless, not all relevant indicators can be calculated with this data alone. Our feasibility study objective is to analyze 1) the availability of data sources; 2) the availability of each indicator elementary variables, and 3) to apply natural language processing to automatically retrieve such information.

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Background: The SARS CoV-2 pandemic disrupted healthcare systems. We compared the cancer stage for new breast cancers (BCs) before and during the pandemic.

Methods: We performed a retrospective multicenter cohort study on the data warehouse of Greater Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP).

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The SARS-COV-2 pandemic disrupted healthcare systems. We assessed its impact on the presentation, care trajectories and outcomes of new pancreatic cancers (PCs) in the Paris area. We performed a retrospective multicenter cohort study on the data warehouse of Greater Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP).

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  • In a phase III study of metastatic colorectal cancer, two treatment sequences were compared: FOLFIRI followed by FOLFOX6 (arm A) versus FOLFOX6 followed by FOLFIRI (arm B).
  • Both treatment sequences resulted in similar median survival times (21.5 months for arm A and 20.6 months for arm B) and comparable response rates in first-line therapy (56% for FOLFIRI vs. 54% for FOLFOX6).
  • However, the treatments had different toxicity profiles, with FOLFIRI showing higher rates of mucositis and nausea/vomiting, while FOLFOX6 had more cases of neutropenia and sensory toxicity.
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In recent years, the development of clinical data warehouses (CDW) has put Electronic Health Records (EHR) data in the spotlight. More and more innovative technologies for healthcare are based on these EHR data. However, quality assessments on EHR data are fundamental to gain confidence in the performances of new technologies.

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Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal cancer, and chemotherapy is a key treatment for advanced PDAC. Gemcitabine chemotherapy is still an important component of treatment; however, there is no routine biomarker to predict its efficacy. Predictive tests may help clinicians to decide on the best first-line chemotherapy.

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Background: Severe chemotherapy-related toxicities are frequent among older patients. The Chemotherapy Risk Assessment Scale for High-Age Patients (CRASH) and the Cancer and Aging Research Group Study (CARG) score were both developed to predict these events.

Patients And Methods: The objective of this study was to evaluate the scores' predictive performance in a prospective cohort, which included patients aged 70 years and older referred for a geriatric assessment prior to chemotherapy for a solid tumor.

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Two-part joint models for a longitudinal semicontinuous biomarker and a terminal event have been recently introduced based on frequentist estimation. The biomarker distribution is decomposed into a probability of positive value and the expected value among positive values. Shared random effects can represent the association structure between the biomarker and the terminal event.

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Background: Clinical outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients after an incomplete microscopic (R1) resection of liver metastases may not differ from those following a microscopically margin negative (R0) resection, when the latest is not feasible because of anatomic issues. We aimed at comparing the clinical outcomes of CRC patients with an intentional R1 or with a R0 resection of liver metastases.

Methods: All patients with advanced in CRC and liver metastases consecutively treated by liver resection between February 2005 and January 2019 at in the department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery of Henri Mondor University Hospital (Créteil, France) were included in this retrospective case-control study.

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Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) and obesity are two ever-increasing public health issues that can independently impair the quality of life (QOL) of affected patients. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of overweight and obesity on the QOL of patients with PCa receiving an anticancer treatment.

Methods: We performed a systematic review of the literature using PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and Web of Science databases according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

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Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a dramatic impact on cancer diagnosis and care pathways. Here, we assessed the mid-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults with cancer before, during and after the lockdown period in 2020.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective, observational, multicentre cohort study of prospectively collected electronic health records.

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The method of generalized pairwise comparisons (GPC) is an extension of the well-known nonparametric Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for comparing two groups of observations. Multiple generalizations of Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and other GPC methods have been proposed over the years to handle censored data. These methods apply different approaches to handling loss of information due to censoring: ignoring noninformative pairwise comparisons due to censoring (Gehan, Harrell, and Buyse); imputation using estimates of the survival distribution (Efron, Péron, and Latta); or inverse probability of censoring weighting (IPCW, Datta and Dong).

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Background: The pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) microenvironment is highly fibrotic and hypoxic, with poor immune cell infiltration. Recently, we showed that nucleolin (NCL) inhibition normalizes tumour vessels and impairs PDAC growth. Methods: Immunocompetent mouse models of PDAC were treated by the pseudopeptide N6L, which selectively inhibits NCL.

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Background & Aims: Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-CCA) is a rare primary liver cancer (PLC) associated with a poor prognosis. Given the challenges in its identification and its clinical implications, biomarkers are critically needed. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic and prognostic value of the immunohistochemical expression of Nestin, a progenitor cell marker, in a large multicentric series of PLCs.

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