Publications by authors named "Julien Guerin"

Background:  Multicenter precision oncology real-world evidence requires a substantial long-term investment by hospitals to prepare their data and align on common Clinical Research processes and medical definitions. Our team has developed a self-assessment framework to support hospitals and hospital networks to measure their digital maturity and better plan and coordinate those investments. From that framework, we developed PRISM for Cancer Outcomes: PR: agmatic I: nstitutional S: urvey and benchM: arking.

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Background: Real-world data (RWD) related to the health status and care of cancer patients reflect the ongoing medical practice, and their analysis yields essential real-world evidence. Advanced information technologies are vital for their collection, qualification, and reuse in research projects.

Methods: UNICANCER, the French federation of comprehensive cancer centres, has innovated a unique research network: Consore.

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  • The European Union is helping create a platform called UNderstanding CANcer (UNCAN.eu) that connects cancer research across different countries in Europe.
  • Experts gathered in Heidelberg to talk about what projects are already happening and how to make the platform better in the future.
  • The goal is to work together so scientists can share important information and improve cancer research for everyone.
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Purpose: To compare the computability of Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP)-based queries related to prescreening of patients using two versions of the OMOP common data model (CDM; v5.3 and v5.4) and to assess the performance of the Greater Paris University Hospital (APHP) prescreening tool.

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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a rare cancer, characterized by high metastatic potential and poor prognosis, and has limited treatment options. The current standard of care in nonmetastatic settings is neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), but treatment efficacy varies substantially across patients. This heterogeneity is still poorly understood, partly due to the paucity of curated TNBC data.

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Objective: To compare the prevalence of contraception in breast cancer (BC) patients at risk of unintentional pregnancy (i.e. not currently pregnant or trying to get pregnant) and matched controls.

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Research Question: What are the real-life oncofertility practices in young women diagnosed with breast cancer?

Design: The FEERIC (FErtility, prEgnancy, contRaceptIon after breast Cancer in France) study is a web-based cohort study launched with the French collaborative research platform Seintinelles. The current work is based on the enrolment self-administered questionnaire of 517 patients with prior breast cancer diagnosis, free from relapse and aged 18 to 43 years at inclusion (from 12 March 2018 to 27 June 2019).

Results: Median age at breast cancer diagnosis was 33.

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Background: Breast cancer (BC) has particular characteristics in young women, with diagnosis at more advanced stages, a poorer prognosis and highly aggressive tumors. In NeoFit, we will use an activity tracker to identify and describe various digital profiles (heart rate, physical activity, and sleep patterns) in women below the age of 45 years on neoadjuvant chemotherapy for BC.

Methods: NeoFit is a prospective, national, multicenter, single-arm open-label study.

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Purpose: Female breast cancer (BC) patients exposed to gonadotoxic chemotherapy are at risk of future infertility. There is evidence of disparities in the discussion of fertility preservation for these patients. The aim of the study was to identify factors influencing the discussion of fertility preservation (FP).

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Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Smoking is the principal modifiable risk factor for cancers and has a negative influence on long-term survival. We conducted a retrospective study on consecutive BC survivors seen at follow-up consultations between 3 June and 30 October 2019 at Institut Curie, Paris, France.

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Purpose: Many institutions throughout the world have launched precision medicine initiatives in oncology, and a large amount of clinical and genomic data is being produced. Although there have been attempts at data sharing with the community, initiatives are still limited. In this context, a French task force composed of Integrated Cancer Research Sites (SIRICs), comprehensive cancer centers from the Unicancer network (one of Europe's largest cancer research organization), and university hospitals launched an initiative to improve and accelerate retrospective and prospective clinical and genomic data sharing in oncology.

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  • This study compares the prognostic performance of two cancer assessment scores, Residual Cancer Burden (RCB) and Neo-Bioscore, in 750 women with invasive breast cancer who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
  • The analysis found that RCB was generally more effective than Neo-Bioscore in predicting disease-free and overall survival, particularly in triple-negative breast cancer, although both scores were associated with patient outcomes.
  • Adding factors like lymphovascular invasion and pre-/post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes improved the performance of both scoring systems, but RCB's simpler classification system makes it easier to apply in clinical settings.
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Introduction: Five to 10% of breast cancers (BCs) occur in a genetic predisposition context (mainly pathogenic variant). Nevertheless, little is known about immune tumor infiltration, response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), pathologic complete response (pCR) and adverse events according to status.

Material And Methods: Out of 1199 invasive BC patients treated with NAC between 2002 and 2012, we identified 267 patients tested for a germline pathogenic variant.

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Tobacco use is associated with an increase in breast cancer (BC) mortality. Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is influenced by tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) levels and is associated with a better long-term survival outcome. The aim of our study is to evaluate the impact of smoking status on TIL levels, response to NAC and prognosis for BC patients.

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Immunosurveillance plays an important role in breast cancer (BC) prognosis and progression, and can be geared by immunogenic chemotherapy. In a cohort of 1023 BC patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), 40% of the individuals took comedications mostly linked to aging and comorbidities. We systematically analyzed the off-target effects of 1178 concurrent comedications (classified according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System) on the density of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and pathological complete responses (pCR).

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Purpose: To apply text mining (TM) technology on electronic medical records (EMRs) of patients with breast cancer (BC) to retrieve the occurrence of a pregnancy after BC diagnosis and compare its performance to manual curation.

Materials And Methods: The training cohort (Cohort A) comprised 344 patients with BC age ≤ 40 years old treated at Institut Curie between 2005 and 2007. Manual curation consisted in manually reviewing each EMR to retrieve pregnancies.

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Purpose: Few studies evaluated the prognostic value of the presence of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer (BC).

Methods: The association between LVI and survival was evaluated in a cohort of BC patients treated by NAC between 2002 and 2011. Five post-NAC prognostic scores (ypAJCC, RCB, CPS, CPS + EG and Neo-Bioscore) were evaluated and compared with or without the addition of LVI.

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Pain prevalence increases during cancer course disease. Cancer incidence is increasing in France, but thanks to therapeutic advances in the specific treatment, cancer has become a chronic disease, often associated with persistent pain. Cancer pain evaluation should be multidimensional.

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