Research and Publications

Scientific articles

• Scientific article published in the prestigious European Journal of Cancer on a multicentral French study concerning radiotherapy in patients aged 90 and older: the largest scientific study ever carried out on this subject. The Center actively participated (along with 4 other French Centres including Val de Grâce and the Saint-Etienne anti-cancer centre) and several of our Centre’s doctors are co-authors of the article (Dr Assouline, Dr Coscas, Dr Otmezguine). Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that makes further analysis of the sub-group of patients aged 90 and older who have had radiotherapy (see study mentioned above) to treat head and neck cancer (at the “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud” and at the 4 other French Centres mentioned above). Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that makes further analysis of the sub-group of patients aged 90 and older who have had radiotherapy (see study mentioned above) to treat breast cancer (at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud” and at the 4 other French Centres mentioned above). Click here
• Scientific article published in the Cancer/Radiotherapy medical journal dealing with the subject of brain radiation therapy, co-authored by Dr Avi Assouline. Click-ici
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that makes further analysis of the sub-group of patients aged 90 and older who have had radiotherapy (see study mentioned above) to treat skin cancer (at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud” and at the 4 other French Centres mentioned above). Click here
• Scientific article published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society that makes further analysis of the sub-group of patients aged 100 who have had radiotherapy (see study mentioned above) to treat cancer (at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud” and at the 4 other French Centres mentioned above). This is the first time that a study of such an age group having received radiotherapy has been published in world medical literature. Click here
• Scientific article published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology reporting on the conclusions of the study conducted by Dr Avi Assouline at the “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud”, in collaboration with Dr Sylvie Delanian, and jointly with Dr Pradat at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Group, on radiotherapy of salivary glands as a treatment for sialorrhoea in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients: the largest series ever published on this theme in world medical literature. Click here
• Scientific article published in an American ALS journal on work carried out in parallel to the study conducted by Dr Avi Assouline on radiotherapy of salivary glands which deals with the validation of tools to measure sialorrhoea in ALS patients. This study was carried out by Dr Pradat’s team at Pitié-Salpêtrière with the participation of Doctors Assouline and Delanian at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud”, who co-authored the article. Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that deals with prognostic factors for male breast cancer and which was the fruit of joint Franco-Canadian work. Dr Assouline, co-author of the article, worked on this theme with the teams of Professors Yu and Tai (Canada). Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that deals with mesothelioma. Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that deals with treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma (a rare skin cancer). Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that deals with the issue of prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with small-cell lung cancer. Click here
• Scientific article published in an international medical journal that deals with the issue of irradiation of brain metastases in melanoma cancer. Click here

Poster sessions presented at national and international medical symposiums

• Poster session at the 25th French Society for Radiation Oncology (SFRO) Congress held in Paris in October 2014 on the use of VMAT to treat brain tumours.Click here
• Poster session at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) held in San Francisco (USA) from 14th to 17th September 2014 (published in the American radiotherapy journal: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics) which is the result of collaborative work between Dr Assouline and Prof. Yu’s team in Canada. Click here
• Poster session at the 50th Congress of the French Society of Stomatology and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery held in Lyon in September 2014 on VMAT irradiation used in our Centre for ENT cancers. Clickici
• Poster session at the 50th Congress of the French Society of Stomatology and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery held in Lyon in September 2014 on radiotherapy of salivary glands. Click here
• Poster session at the 23rd International Symposium on ALS held in Chicago (USA) in December 2012 on radiotherapy of salivary glands as a treatment of sialorrhoea in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Click here
• Poster session at the 23rd International Symposium on ALS held in Chicago (USA) in December 2012. Click here
• Poster session at the 26th conference of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology held in Ottawa (Canada) in September 2012 on prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with small-cell lung cancer. Click here
• Poster session at the 18th Hong Kong International Cancer Congress (November 2011) on the prognostic factors for male breast cancer. Click here
• Poster session at the 22nd French Society for Radiation Oncology (SFRO) Congress held in Paris in October 2011 on radiotherapy of salivary glands. Click here
• Poster session at the 22nd French Society for Radiation Oncology (SFRO) Congress held in Paris in October 2011 on prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with small-cell lung cancer. Click here

• Video reports presented during the TV programme“Allô Docteur” on 14th November 2011 on France 5: Clickhere
  • Example of a radiotherapy session with the Radiotherapy team at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud”.
  • Radiotherapy: clinical monitoring of patients with Dr Avi Assouline, oncologist-radiotherapis at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud”.
• Chatting about “the side effects of radiotherapy” following the programme “Allô Docteur” broadcast on 14/11/11 on France 5 TV with responses from Dr Sylvie Delanian and Dr Avi Assouline, oncologist-radiotherapists at the “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud”: Click here
• Article appearing in Le Quotidien du Médecin on Monday 27th January 2014 – N° 9296 (Dr Béatrice Vuaille) – reporting on the conclusions of the study published by Dr Avi Assouline in a prestigious American radiotherapy journal on patients suffering from a serious neurological illness called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. This treatment is now routinely offered by Dr Assouline in our Centre. Click here
• Article appearing in Paris Match on 6th March 2014 on the study jointly conducted by Dr Assouline at The “Centre de Cancérologie de la Porte de Saint-Cloud” and Dr Pradat at Pitié-Salpêtière on radiotherapy of salivary glands as a treatment for excessive salivation (sialorrhoea) in patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Click here
• Report broadcast in the programme Le Magazine de la Santé on France 5 talking about radiotherapy of salivary glands in patients suffering from ALS and the different stages of this treatment at our Centre (broadcast on 12th May 2014).
• Article appearing in the French language daily Belgian newspaper, Le Soir (on page 28, edition published on 6th June 2014) on the study conducted by Dr Assouline in radiotherapy of salivary glands as a treatment for excessive salivation (sialorrhoea) in patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Click here
• Article appearing on the Internet website of the American ALS Association (ALS Today) on 21st May 2014 on radiotherapy of salivary glands: http://blogs.als.net/post/AAN-2014-ALS-Handle-with-Care.aspx