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coordinating office:
professor R-O.Mirimanoff
professor E.M. Ozsahin, MD, PhD

administrator: Julia Rengier

 Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 LAUSANNE, Switzerland 

 

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1. SEMINOMA+HCG

Prognosis of human chorionic gonado-tropin - producing seminoma treated by post- operative radiotherapy.

Mirimanoff RO, Sinzig M, Kruger M, Miralbell R, Thoni A, Ries G, Bosset JF, Bernier J, Bolla M, Nguyen TD.

 Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 27: 17-23,1993
(132 patients)

2. UROTHELIAL RENAL PELVIS AND URETER

Prognostic Factors In Urothelial Renal Pelvis And Ureter Tumours

Ozsahin M, Zouhair A, Villa S, Storme G, Chauvet B, Taussky D, Gouders D, Ries G. Bontemps P, Coucke PA, Mirimanoff RO.

Eur J Cancer 35(5) : 738-43, 1999

(138 patients)

3. TESTICULAR LYMPHOMA
Outcome And Patterns Of Failu-Re In Testicular Lymphoma

Zouhair A, Weber D, Belkacemi Y, Ketterer N, Dietrich PY, Villa S, Scandolaro L, Bieri S, Studer G, Delacretaz F, Girardet C, Mirimanoff RO, Ozsahin M

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2002 Mar 1;52(3):652-6.

(36 patients)

4. NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
stages i and ii treated by radiotherapy alone: evaluation ongoing (p. van houtte): exclusive radiotherapy for non small cell lung cancer.

Gouders D, Maingon P, Paesmans M, Rodrigus P, Hahn B, Arnaiz MD, Nguyen T, Landmann C, Bosset JF, Danhier S, Van Houtte P.

Rep.Pract.Oncol.Radiother. 8 (1): 7-14. 2003.

Lung Cancer 29 (suppl. 1)
166, 2000

(123 patients)

5. DESMOID TUMOURS

B. Baumert, M. Spahr, A. von Hochstetter, S.Beauvois, C. Landmann, K.Fridrich, S.Villa, M..Kirschner, G.Storme, P.Thum, H.Streuli, N. Lombriser, R.Maurer, G. Ries, E.Bleher, A. Willi, J.Allemann, U. Buehler, H.Blessing, U. Luetolf, J.B. Davis, B.Seifert, M. Infangert

Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:12

(110 patients)

6. ORBITAL LYMPHOMA
Outcome And Prognostic Factors In Orbital Lymphoma: 90 Consecutive Patients Treated With Radiotherapy. 

Martinet S, Ozsahin M, Belkacemi Y, Landmann C, Poortmans P, Oehlere C, Scandolaro L, Krengli M, Maingon P, Miralbell R, Studer G, Chauvet B, Marnitz S, Zouhair A, Mirimanoff RO.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003 Mar 15;55
(4):892-8.

(90 patients)

7. UTERINE SARCOMA
Primary Uterine Leiomyo-Sarcoma: Outcome And Prognostic Factors In Eighty Consecu-Tive Patients

Franzetti Pellanda A, Ozsahin M, Deniaud-  Alexandre E, Krengli M, Van Houtte P, Richetty A, Villa S, Kuten A, Jassem J, Bolla M, Hoogenraad W.J, Vaneijkere M. Poortmans P. Collon T, Yavuz A, Chan S, Landman C, Kirkove-Houssiau C. Scandolaro L, Bernier J, Juelke P. Bosmann C. Mirimanoff R.O.

43rd ASTRO, San Francisco, November 4-8, 2001. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51: abstr.2213

(80 patients)

8. SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST

L. Scandolaro

Publication in preparation
(33 patients)

9. ANAL CANAL ADENOCARCINOMA
Outcome After Combined Modality Treatment For Primary Adeno-Carcinomas Of The Anal Canal

Belkacemi Y, Berger C, Poortmans P, Zouhair A, Maric J.M, Piel G,Nguyen T.Krengli M,Behrensmeier F, Touboul E.

43rd ASTRO, San Francisco, November 408, 2001. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51: abstr. 2063

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003 Aug 1;56(5):1274-83

(82 patients)

10. BREAST LYMPHOMA
Outcome And Patterns Of Failure In Primary Breast Lymphoma

R.O. Mirimanoff, A. Taghian,
R. Epelbaum, P. Poortmans,
D. Zwahlen, B. Amsler, B. Castelain,
Y. Belkace?mi, T. Nguyen,
P. Scalliet, P. Maingon,
P. van Houtte,C. Gutie?rrez,
M. Ozsahin, W. Jeanneret Sozzi,

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 54 (2) suppl. p.300 abstr. 2156, 2002.

BMC Cancer 8(1): 86, 2008.

(84 patients)

11. PLASMACYTOMA
Outcome And Patterns Of Failure In Solitary Plasmacytoma

  

Prognostic Factors In Solitary Plasmacytoma Of The Bone

D. Knobel, R. Tsang, P. Poortmans, Y. Belkacemi, M. Bolla, F. Oner, Landmann, B. Castelain, J. Buijsen, A. Kowalczyk, Y. Anacak, M. Ozsahin

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Jan 1;64(1):210-7

(258 patients)

BMC Cancer 6(1): 118, 2006

(258 patients)


12. EPIDURAL LYMPHOMA
Primary Spinal Epidural Lymphoma: Patients Profile, Outcome And Prognostic Factors

R.O. Mirimanoff, A. Sun,
R. Epelbaum,P. Poortmans,
T. Verschueren, L. Scandolaro,
S. Villa, S. Balmer Majno,
M. Ozsahin, V. Monnard

ASCO, ECCO, ASTRO and SASRO 2003 [Int J Radiaat Oncol Biol Phys 57 (2 suppl): abst 1046, 2003;

Int. J. Rad. Oncol.Biol. Phys.
2006 Jul 1;65(3):817-23.


(48 patients)

13. ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC TUMORS

U. Abacioglu

  Project initiated: Oct 2002, abandoned 2003 due to lack of data

14. ROLE OF RT IN UTERINE PAPILLARY SEROUS CARCINOMA

Goldberg H, Miller RC, Abdah-Bortnyak R, Steiner M, Yildiz F, Meirovitz A, Villa S, Poortmans PM, Azria D, Zidan J, Ozsahin M, Abacioglu U, Gold DG, Amit A, Lavie O, Atahan IL, Kuten A.

Gynecol Oncol. 2008 Feb;108(2):298-305

(138 patients)

15. PHYLLOIDES TUMORS OF THE BREAST

Y. Belkacemi, G.Bousquet, H. Marsiglia, I. Ray-Coquard, N. Magne, Y.Malard, M.Lacroix, Cr. Gutierrez, E. Senkus, D. Christie, K.Drumea, E. Lagneau, S. P. Kadish, L. Scandolaro, D. Azria M.Ozsahin

2004 ASTRO oral presentation
2004 ESTRO poster presentation

Int. J. Rad. Oncol.Biol. Phys.
2008; 70(2):492 - 500

(443  patients)

16. SARCOMAS OF THE BREAST

Bousquet G, Confavreux C, Magne N, de Lara CT, Poortmans P, Senkus E, de Lafontan B, Bolla M, Largillier R, Lagneau E, Kadish S, Lemanski C, Ozsahin M, Belkacemi Y.

 2004 ASTRO oral presentation,
ESTRO 2004 oral presentation
Radiother Oncol. 2007; 85(3):355 - 361

(103  patients)

17. PROSTATE CANCER TREATED BY RADIOTHERAPY IN YOUNG PATIENTS

Tan Dat Nguyen, Philip M.P. Poortmans, Marleen van der Hulst, Gabriela Studer, Eva Pigois, Timothy D. Collen, Yazid Belkacemi, Veronique Beckendorf, Raymond Miralbell, Luciano Scandolaro, Guy Soete, Salvador Villa, Eliahu Gez, Olivier Thomas, Marco Krengli and Nicolas Jovenin

Bull Cancer. 2004Dec;91(12): 959-64

Radiother Oncol.2005 Dec ; 77(3):286-9.

(55 yrs. 39 patients)

18. SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE PELVIS

B. Chauvet

Study abandoned due to limited participation, provision of heterogeneous data leading to difficulty with anatomo-pathological identification of such tumours

19. OLFACTORY NEUROBLASTOMA

M. Ozsahin, O. Olszyk, O. Karakoyun-Celik, B. Pehlivan, D. Azria, M. Roelandts, M. Kaanders, M. Cengi,  M. Krengli, A. Zouhair

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010 78(4): 992-7
(50 patients)

20. MUCOSAL MELANOMA OF UPPER AERO-DIGESTIVE TRACT

Masini L., Krengli M., Kaanders J.H.A.M., Maingon P., Obei S.B., Zouhair A.,Ozyar E, Roelandts M., Amichetti M.8, Bosset M.,Mirimanoff R.O.

 Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Apr 26

(74 patients)

21. SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE

M.Stein,Z.Bernstein,U.Abacioglu M.Sengoz,R.S.Miller,A.Mierovitz, A.Zouhair,S.Villa Freixa, P.H.Poortmans,R.Ash,A.Kuten

The Am J Med Sciences
December 2008  336(6):
478-488

(30 patients)

22. DCIS IN PATIENTS YOUNGER THAN 45 YEARS

Omlin A, Amichetti M, Azria D, Cole BF, Fourneret P, Poortmans P, Naehrig D, Miller RC, Krengli M, Gutierrez Miguelez C, Morgan D, Goldberg H, Scandolaro L, Gastelblum P, Ozsahin M, Dohr D, Christie D, Oppitz U, Abacioglu U, Gruber G.

 Lancet Oncology 7(8):652-6, 2006


(373 patients)

23. PEDIATRIC NASOPHARINGEAL CARCINOMA

Akman F, Wolden SL, Sarihan S, Miller RC, Ozsahin M, Abacioglu U, Martin M, Caloglu M, Scandolaro L, Szutowicz E, Atahan IL.

Radiotherapy&Oncology
2006 Oct;81 (1):39-46.
Proceedings of the 47th Annual ASTRO Meeting, Denver, 2005. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys63(2) Suppl: S23-24, 2005


(165 patients)

24. MELANOMA OF THE RECTUM

D.Azria

Initiated November 2004

July 2006: analysis underway

(90 patients)

25. CEREBELLAR GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME

Weber DC, Miller RC, Villa S, Hanssens P, Baumert BG, Castadot P, Varlet P, Abacioglu U, Igdem S, Szutowicz E, Nishioka H, Hofer S, Rutz HP, Ozsahin M, Taghian A, Mirimanoff RO.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Sep1, 66(1), 179-186

(45 Patients)

26.NASOPHARYNGEAL ANGIOFIBROMA

E. Ozyar

Abandoned 2011 due to lack of data 

27. ATYPICAL AND ANAPLASTIC (MALIGNANT) MENINGIOMA (WHO GRADE II AND III)

Pasquier D, Bijmolt S, Veninga T, Rezvoy N, Villa S, Krengli M, Weber DC, Baumert BG, Canyilmaz E, Yalman D, Szutowicz E, Tzuk-Shina T, Mirimanoff RO;

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Aug 1;71(5):1388-93.

(119 patients) 

28. MALT LYMPHOMA OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS

Y. Anacak, R.C. Miller, N. Constantinou, A.M. Mamusa, R. Epelbaum, Y. Li, A.L. Calduch, A. Kowalczyk, D.C. Weber, S.P. Kadish, N. Bese, P. Poortmans, S. Kamer, M. Ozsahin.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010 Nov 12.

59 patients 

29. OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON PROSTATE CANCERS IN PATIENTS AGED 80Y.OR MORE *

T.D. Nguyen

Cancer Radiother 13(6-7), 2009  (article in French)

PubMed link in English  Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2009 (e-pub May 4)

 (65 patients)

30. RADIOTHERAPY IN ERDHEIM - CHESTER DISEASE (NON LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS)

Miller RC, Villa S, Kamer S, Pasquier D, Poortmans P, Micke O, Call TG.

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 80, Issue 3 , September 2006, 323-326

(9 patients)

31. PRIMARY INTRA-OCULAR LYMPHOMA

K. Mak, R. Miller, S. Krishnan, N. Laperriere, O. Micke, I. Rutten, S. Kadish, M. Ozsahin and R-O. Mirimanoff

ASTRO abstract accepted, manuscript in preparation
IJROB, 2007; 69(3)
S534 - S535

(20 patients)

32. GIANT CELL TUMORS OF THE BONE

S. Bhatia, L. Miszczyk, M. Roelandts, T. Nguyen, T. Boterberg, P. Poortmans and R. Miller

(39 patients)

33. CASE -CONTROL STUDY IN RADIATION - INDUCED ESOPHAGEAL CANCER*

G. Crehange

Publication in preparation October 2011

34. SPINAL MYXOPAPILLARY EPENDYMOMA*

A.Pica

 Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74(4): 1114-20, 2009

35. PRIMARY PINEAL PARENCHIMAL TUMORS

S.Villa

Abstract accepted for
ASTRO 2008
Oral presentation at EANO, Barcelona, 2008

(35 patients)

36. LOW GRADE PRIMARY MENINGEAL LYMPHOMA

D.Weber

Study abandoned due to lack of patients

37. ADULT LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS OF THE BONE

E. Ozyar

Publication of study of 30 patients in Acta Orthop Belg 2010, Vol 76

(B. Atalar et al

38. SMALL CELL ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA

P. Vos B, Rozema T, Miller RC, Hendlisz A, Van Laethem JL, Khanfir K, Weber DC, El Nakadi I, Van Houtte P

Dis Esophagus. 2010 Nov 12. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2010.01133.x.

39. THYROID LYMPHOMA

C. Onal, E. Ozyar

 Initiated March 2007 Final publication (87 patients): Ann Oncol. 2011 Jan;22(1):156-64. Epub 2010 Jun 29

40. GLOMUS TUMORS OR PARAGANGLIOMAS*

Y. Lassen-Ramshad

 Initiated June 2007

Accrual extended - will close on July 2009

41. DUCT CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE*

S. Igdem

ASTRO 2009: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 75(3) suppl. p.S300-301, 2009.  

Onkologie 2010;33:169-173

DOI: 10.1159/000288710

(31 patients)

42. PRIMARY SPINAL HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA

D. Weber

Initiated July 2007

Study abandoned due to lack of patients

43. ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST

K. Khanfir

W. Jeanneret Sozzi

 Abstract submitted to SASRO 2009

(61 patients)

44. UTERINE SARCOMAS*

(exluding leiomyosarcoma)

H. Vees

Initiated November 2007
150 patients under analysis

Abstract submitted to ECCO 2009

45. ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA (AIN)

G. Crehange

Study abandoned 2011 due to lack of patients

46. ONCOCYTIC TUMORS OF THE CHOROIDAL PLEXUS

R. C. Miller

Initiated June 2008
Study abandoned due to lack of patients

47. MUCOSAL KAPOSI SARCOMA (MKS)

Juliette Thariat

Study closed: 13 patients under analysis for case series publication, October 2010

48.PRIMARY HEPATIC LYMPHOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK

G.Ugurluer,

E-M.Ozsahin,

U. Schick

Initiated March 2009

Accrual survey

  

 49. OSTEOSARCOMA OF THE MANDIBLE*

J. Thariat

(French Sarcoma and Bone Tumor Group) and the GETTEC:

(Groupe d’Etude des Tumeurs de la Tete et du Cou).

Publication of series of >37 patients planned early 2011

50. PRIMARY NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA OF THE PROSTATE

D. Weber

Initated December 2009 

 51. PRIMARY BONE LYMPHOMA

C. Ling,

R.O. Mirimanoff

L.Cai, M.C. Stauder, Y.J.Zhang et al. Early Stage Lymphoma : A Retrospective, Multicenter Rare Cancer Network Study. IJROBP 2010 : 78 ; S84.

accepted by IJROBP June 2011 

52. PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND MANAGEMENT OF RARE CANCERS

Y. Belkacemi, A. Zouhair,

M. Ozsahin, D. Azria, R.O. Mirimanoff

Cancer Radiother 2006; 10(6-7): 323-9 

 53. ADULT MEDULLOBLASTOMA

Banu Atalar

Initated September 2011  

54. MULTIPLE BONE LYMPHOMA

C. Ling,

R.O. Mirimanoff

8 cases, under analysis May 2011

55. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA 1992-2009

P. Ghadjar

K. Beer

Manuscript accepted May 2011 by the Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys

ASTRO Abstract 2004, K.T. Beer et al

56. CURATIVE EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS OVER 80 YEARS OF AGE WITH LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER: A RETROSPECTIVE RARE CANCER NETWORK STUDY."

Nguyen TD, Azria D, Brochon D, Poortmans P, Miller RC, Scandolaro L, Majewski W, Krengli M, Abacioglu U, Moretti L, Villa S, Akyol F, Jovenin N.

Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2010 (74) 66-71

 

 

 

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