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Cancer Radiother ; 28(4): 323-332, 2024 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39003168

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PURPOSE: The standard treatment of T2-T3 rectal adenocarcinoma is radical proctectomy by total mesorectal excision often combined with some neoadjuvant treatment. To reduce morbidity of this surgery, organ preservation strategy using various combination of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and local excision is gaining interest. Some randomized trials have proven the feasibility of such approaches. The OPERA trial demonstrated, for T2 T3<5cm diameter low-middle rectum, that a contact X-ray brachytherapy boost of 90Gy in three fractions over 4 weeks was able to achieve a planned organ preservation in 81% of patients at 3years with 97% success for tumour smaller than 3cm treated with contact X-ray brachytherapy boost first. To try to expand organ preservation to larger tumours we set up a feasibility trial in T2-T3 tumours using total neoadjuvant treatment and a contact X-ray brachytherapy boost. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The trial was approved by the institutional review board of Nice. Inclusion criteria were operable patients, 75years or less, adenocarcinoma of the low-middle rectum staged T2c-T3N0 larger than 3.5cm and less than 6cm in diameter or T2-T3N1 less than 6cm in diameter. Treatment started in all cases with neoadjuvant chemotherapy associating 5-fluoro-uracile, irinotecan and oxaliplatin ('folfirinox' regimen, four to six cycles). In case of good tumour response after four cycles, a contact X-ray brachytherapy boost (delivering 90Gy in three fractions) was given followed by chemoradiotherapy (external beam radiotherapy delivering 50Gy, with concurrent capecitabine). After six cycles if only a partial response (tumour still larger than 3cm) was seen, chemoradiotherapy was given and contact X-ray brachytherapy boost was delivered after that. At the end of this total neoadjuvant treatment a watch and wait strategy was decided in case of clinical complete response or radical proctectomy by total mesorectal excision for partial response. RESULTS: Between July 2019 and October 2022, 14 patients were included; median age was 66years (range: 51-77years), there were nine male and five female, two T2 N1 tumours, seven T3N0, and five T3N1, all were M0. Median tumour diameter was 40mm (range: 11-50mm); three tumours had a circumferential extension greater than 50%. Seven patients received four folfirinox cycles and seven had six cycles. Contact X-ray brachytherapy boost was given during folfirinox chemotherapy before chemoradiotherapy in 11 patients (and after in three). The tolerance was good, with no grade 4-5 toxicity. The main grade 3 early toxicity was in relation with the folfirinox regimen. A clinical complete response was seen in 12 patients at the end of the total neoadjuvant treatment (85%). All these patients are alive and have preserved their rectum with a mean follow-up time of 17.8months (range: 6-48months) and a good bowel function (low anterior rectal resection syndrome score below 30). The main contact X-ray brachytherapy boost toxicity was radiation ulceration in three patients that usually healed within 6 months, sometimes necessitating hyperbaric oxygen. CONCLUSION: The preliminary results of this feasibility study show that early tolerance of these intensive total neoadjuvant treatment is compatible with an acceptable toxicity. The high rate of organ preservation in this intermediate group of T2-T3 tumours is encouraging and is a good argument to start the next randomized TRESOR trial that will aim at achieving a 65% of 3-year survival with organ preservation in this intermediate tumour group.


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Adenocarcinoma , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica , Braquiterapia , Capecitabina , Quimioradioterapia , Estudios de Factibilidad , Fluorouracilo , Irinotecán , Terapia Neoadyuvante , Oxaliplatino , Neoplasias del Recto , Humanos , Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Neoplasias del Recto/radioterapia , Neoplasias del Recto/patología , Braquiterapia/métodos , Fluorouracilo/uso terapéutico , Quimioradioterapia/métodos , Adenocarcinoma/terapia , Adenocarcinoma/radioterapia , Adenocarcinoma/patología , Anciano , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapéutico , Oxaliplatino/uso terapéutico , Capecitabina/uso terapéutico , Femenino , Masculino , Irinotecán/uso terapéutico , Leucovorina/uso terapéutico , Tratamientos Conservadores del Órgano/métodos , Estadificación de Neoplasias
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Cancer Radiother ; 26(1-2): 272-278, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34953708

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We present the updated recommendations of the French society of oncological radiotherapy for rectal cancer radiotherapy. The standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer consists in chemoradiotherapy followed by radical surgery with total mesorectal resection and adjuvant chemotherapy according to nodal status. Although this strategy efficiently reduced local recurrences rates below 5% in expert centres, functional sequelae could not be avoided resulting in 20 to 30% morbidity rates. The early introduction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy has proven beneficial in recent trials, in terms of recurrence free and metastasis free survivals. Complete pathological responses were obtained in 15% of tumours treated by chemoradiation, even reaching up to 30% of tumours when neoadjuvant chemotherapy is associated to chemoradiotherapy. These good results question the relevance of systematic radical surgery in good responders. Personalized therapeutic strategies are now possible by improved imaging modalities with circumferential margin assessed by magnetic resonance imaging, by intensity modulated radiotherapy and by refining surgical techniques, and contribute to morbidity reduction. Keeping the same objectives, ongoing trials are now evaluating therapeutic de-escalation strategies, in particular rectal preservation for good responders after neoadjuvant treatment, or radiotherapy omission in selected cases (Greccar 12, Opera, Norad).


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Radioterapia de Intensidad Modulada/métodos , Neoplasias del Recto/radioterapia , Quimioradioterapia , Quimioterapia Adyuvante , Francia , Humanos , Terapia Neoadyuvante , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/prevención & control , Tratamientos Conservadores del Órgano/métodos , Órganos en Riesgo/diagnóstico por imagen , Posicionamiento del Paciente , Oncología por Radiación , Dosificación Radioterapéutica , Radioterapia Guiada por Imagen , Neoplasias del Recto/diagnóstico por imagen , Neoplasias del Recto/patología , Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Recto/cirugía , Carga Tumoral
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Cancer Radiother ; 25(8): 795-800, 2021 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34052134

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The Papillon experience and the Lyon R96-02 trial have shown that contact X-ray brachytherapy of 50kV is efficient and safe to achieve long term local control and organ preservation for cT1 and early cT2-3 rectal cancers. The OPERA trial, using the Papillon 50™ machine, brings further support to this preservation strategy for selected T2T3ab lesions. Future trials using a contact X-ray boost will try to consolidate and enlarge its place in organ preservation for rectal cancers.


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Braquiterapia/métodos , Tratamientos Conservadores del Órgano/métodos , Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto , Neoplasias del Recto/radioterapia , Braquiterapia/instrumentación , Braquiterapia/tendencias , Diseño de Equipo , Predicción , Humanos , Tratamientos Conservadores del Órgano/instrumentación , Tratamientos Conservadores del Órgano/tendencias , Neoplasias del Recto/patología , Factores de Tiempo , Rayos X
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Stat Methods Med Res ; 30(2): 357-375, 2021 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32940135

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To estimate the mean of a quantitative variable in a hierarchical population, it is logistically convenient to sample in two stages (two-stage sampling), i.e. selecting first clusters, and then individuals from the sampled clusters. Allowing cluster size to vary in the population and to be related to the mean of the outcome variable of interest (informative cluster size), the following competing sampling designs are considered: sampling clusters with probability proportional to cluster size, and then the same number of individuals per cluster; drawing clusters with equal probability, and then the same percentage of individuals per cluster; and selecting clusters with equal probability, and then the same number of individuals per cluster. For each design, optimal sample sizes are derived under a budget constraint. The three optimal two-stage sampling designs are compared, in terms of efficiency, with each other and with simple random sampling of individuals. Sampling clusters with probability proportional to size is recommended. To overcome the dependency of the optimal design on unknown nuisance parameters, maximin designs are derived. The results are illustrated, assuming probability proportional to size sampling of clusters, with the planning of a hypothetical survey to compare adolescent alcohol consumption between France and Italy.


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Proyectos de Investigación , Adolescente , Análisis por Conglomerados , Francia , Humanos , Italia , Tamaño de la Muestra
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Cancer Radiother ; 19(8): 725-32, 2015 Dec.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26548601

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PURPOSE: Rectal cancer is increasingly prevalent in elderly patients. Their clinical history and outcome after treatment are poorly described. This retrospective study was undertaken to provide more data and to compare therapeutic strategies to the standard of care for younger patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients concerned were aged 80 years or older, with a rectal cancer diagnosed between 2006 and 2008 and treated in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (PACA), irrespective of stage and treatment of the disease. Overall survival and relapse-free-survival were correlated with patients' characteristics and treatment. The adopted therapeutic strategy was then compared to the standard-of-care for younger patients. RESULTS: With a median follow-up of 36 months, among the 160 patients included, the 3-year overall survival and relapse-free survival were 59.2% and 76.6%, respectively for the 117 patients who received a treatment with curative intent. In the multivariate analysis, node status and surgery independently influenced overall survival, while relapse-free survival was influenced by age, N status, and gender. For T0-T2 tumours, patients were treated similarly to younger patients with an overall survival of 83.6% and a relapse-free survival of 95.2%. For T3-T4 tumours, the 3-year relapse-free survival was 65%, even with a less aggressive strategy. CONCLUSION: Surgical resection after evaluation using the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) test should be the standard treatment for localized rectal cancer (T0-T2) in elderly patients, as it is in younger patients. For locally advanced lesions (T3-T4), results obtained after a conservative approach suggest that a non-surgical strategy can be used in elderly patients.


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Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Factores de Edad , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Francia , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasias del Recto/mortalidad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Tasa de Supervivencia , Factores de Tiempo , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Cancer Radiother ; 19(6-7): 616-20, 2015 Oct.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26278991

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In August 2013, the French nuclear safety agency (ASN) requested the permanent group of experts in radiation protection in medicine (GPMED) to propose recommendations on the implementation of new technology and techniques in radiation oncology. These recommendations were finalized in February 2015 by the GPMED. In April 2015, the ASN sent a letter to the French ministry of health (DGS/DGOS), and its national health agencies (ANSM, INCa, HAS). In these letters, ASN proposed that, from the 12 recommendations made by the GPMED, an action plan should be established, whose control could be assigned to the French national cancer institute (INCa), as a pilot of the national committee for radiotherapy and that this proposal has to be considered at the next meeting of the national committee of radiotherapy.


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Neoplasias/radioterapia , Seguridad del Paciente/normas , Oncología por Radiación/normas , Humanos , Radioterapia/normas
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Cancer Radiother ; 19(3): 211-9; quiz 231-2, 235, 2015 May.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25840776

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Proton beam therapy is indicated as a treatment for some rare tumours and paediatric tumours because the technique allows a good local control with minimal toxicity; the growing number of centres that use proton beam therapy is associated with an increase of dosimetric and clinical data for other malignant tumours as well. This paper reviews potential indications of proton beam therapy. A systematic review on Medline was performed with the following keywords proton beam therapy, cancer, heavy particle, charged particle. No phase III trial has been published using proton beam therapy in comparison with the best photon therapy, but numerous retrospective and dosimetric studies have revealed an advantage of proton beam therapy compared to photons, above all in tumours next to parallel organs at risk (thoracic and abdominal tumours). This could be accompanied with a better safety profile and/or a better tumoural control; numerous phase 0, I, II, III and IV studies are ongoing to examine these hypotheses in more common cancers. Use of proton beam therapy is growing for common cancers within clinical trials but some indications could be applied sooner since in silico analysis showed major advantages with this technique.


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Neoplasias/radioterapia , Terapia de Protones , Neoplasias de la Mama/epidemiología , Neoplasias de la Mama/radioterapia , Neoplasias de los Bronquios/epidemiología , Neoplasias de los Bronquios/radioterapia , Instituciones Oncológicas/provisión & distribución , Carcinoma/epidemiología , Carcinoma/radioterapia , Ensayos Clínicos como Asunto , Neoplasias del Sistema Digestivo/epidemiología , Neoplasias del Sistema Digestivo/radioterapia , Femenino , Francia/epidemiología , Objetivos , Neoplasias de Cabeza y Cuello/epidemiología , Neoplasias de Cabeza y Cuello/radioterapia , Planificación en Salud , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/epidemiología , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/radioterapia , Humanos , Mesotelioma/epidemiología , Mesotelioma/radioterapia , Neoplasias Pélvicas/epidemiología , Neoplasias Pélvicas/radioterapia , Fotones/uso terapéutico , Terapia de Protones/métodos , Terapia de Protones/estadística & datos numéricos , Terapia de Protones/tendencias , Dosificación Radioterapéutica , Radioterapia de Alta Energía , Neoplasias Retroperitoneales/epidemiología , Neoplasias Retroperitoneales/radioterapia , Sarcoma/epidemiología , Sarcoma/radioterapia
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J Cheminform ; 7: 1, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25705261

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Cyclooxygenases (COX) are present in the body in two isoforms, namely: COX-1, constitutively expressed, and COX-2, induced in physiopathological conditions such as cancer or chronic inflammation. The inhibition of COX with non-steroideal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is the most widely used treatment for chronic inflammation despite the adverse effects associated to prolonged NSAIDs intake. Although selective COX-2 inhibition has been shown not to palliate all adverse effects (e.g. cardiotoxicity), there are still niche populations which can benefit from selective COX-2 inhibition. Thus, capitalizing on bioactivity data from both isoforms simultaneously would contribute to develop COX inhibitors with better safety profiles. We applied ensemble proteochemometric modeling (PCM) for the prediction of the potency of 3,228 distinct COX inhibitors on 11 mammalian cyclooxygenases. Ensemble PCM models ([Formula: see text], and RMSEtest = 0.71) outperformed models exclusively trained on compound ([Formula: see text], and RMSEtest = 1.09) or protein descriptors ([Formula: see text] and RMSEtest = 1.10) on the test set. Moreover, PCM predicted COX potency for 1,086 selective and non-selective COX inhibitors with [Formula: see text] and RMSEtest = 0.76. These values are in agreement with the maximum and minimum achievable [Formula: see text] and RMSEtest values of approximately 0.68 for both metrics. Confidence intervals for individual predictions were calculated from the standard deviation of the predictions from the individual models composing the ensembles. Finally, two substructure analysis pipelines singled out chemical substructures implicated in both potency and selectivity in agreement with the literature. Graphical AbstractPrediction of uncorrelated bioactivity profiles for mammalian COX inhibitors with Ensemble Proteochemometric Modeling.

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J Cheminform ; 6(1): 40, 2014 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25221627

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BACKGROUND: The large increase in the number of scientific publications has fuelled a need for semi- and fully automated text mining approaches in order to assist in the triage process, both for individual scientists and also for larger-scale data extraction and curation into public databases. Here, we introduce a document classifier, which is able to successfully distinguish between publications that are 'ChEMBL-like' (i.e. related to small molecule drug discovery and likely to contain quantitative bioactivity data) and those that are not. The unprecedented size of the medicinal chemistry literature collection, coupled with the advantage of manual curation and mapping to chemistry and biology make the ChEMBL corpus a unique resource for text mining. RESULTS: The method has been implemented as a data protocol/workflow for both Pipeline Pilot (version 8.5) and KNIME (version 2.9) respectively. Both workflows and models are freely available at: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chembl/text-mining. These can be readily modified to include additional keyword constraints to further focus searches. CONCLUSIONS: Large-scale machine learning document classification was shown to be very robust and flexible for this particular application, as illustrated in four distinct text-mining-based use cases. The models are readily available on two data workflow platforms, which we believe will allow the majority of the scientific community to apply them to their own data. ᅟ: Graphical AbstractMultidimensional scaling analysis applied to document vectors derived from titles and abstracts in different corpora. Notably, there is large overlap between the documents in the different ChEMBL versions and BindingDB, while the background MEDLINE set is largely divergent.

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J Cheminform ; 6: 35, 2014.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25045403

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Proteochemometrics (PCM) is an approach for bioactivity predictive modeling which models the relationship between protein and chemical information. Gaussian Processes (GP), based on Bayesian inference, provide the most objective estimation of the uncertainty of the predictions, thus permitting the evaluation of the applicability domain (AD) of the model. Furthermore, the experimental error on bioactivity measurements can be used as input for this probabilistic model. In this study, we apply GP implemented with a panel of kernels on three various (and multispecies) PCM datasets. The first dataset consisted of information from 8 human and rat adenosine receptors with 10,999 small molecule ligands and their binding affinity. The second consisted of the catalytic activity of four dengue virus NS3 proteases on 56 small peptides. Finally, we have gathered bioactivity information of small molecule ligands on 91 aminergic GPCRs from 9 different species, leading to a dataset of 24,593 datapoints with a matrix completeness of only 2.43%. GP models trained on these datasets are statistically sound, at the same level of statistical significance as Support Vector Machines (SVM), with [Formula: see text] values on the external dataset ranging from 0.68 to 0.92, and RMSEP values close to the experimental error. Furthermore, the best GP models obtained with the normalized polynomial and radial kernels provide intervals of confidence for the predictions in agreement with the cumulative Gaussian distribution. GP models were also interpreted on the basis of individual targets and of ligand descriptors. In the dengue dataset, the model interpretation in terms of the amino-acid positions in the tetra-peptide ligands gave biologically meaningful results.

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J Surg Oncol ; 108(7): 450-6, 2013 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24115027

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BACKGROUND: Rectal cancer is increasingly prevalent in the elderly patients. Their clinical history and outcome after treatment are poorly described. This retrospective study was undertaken to provide more data and to compare therapeutic strategies to the standard of care for younger patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data were retrospectively provided by gastroenterologists, oncologists, and gerontologists of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (PACA). Patients concerned were aged 80 years or older, with a rectal cancer diagnosed between 2006 and 2008, irrespective of stage and (the) treatment of the disease. Overall survival (OS) and relapse-free-survival (RFS) were correlated with patient characteristics and treatment. The adopted therapeutic strategy was then compared to the standard-of-care for younger patients. RESULTS: Median follow-up was 36 months. The 3-year OS was 47.4% for the 160 patients analyzed, and 59.2% for the 117 patients treated with curative intent. The 3-year RFS was 76.6% in the "curative" population. In the multivariate analysis, node status and surgery independently influenced OS, while RFS was influenced by age, N status, and gender. For T0-T2 tumors, patients were treated similar to younger patients with an OS of 83.6% and a RFS of 95.2%, respectively. For T3-T4 tumors, 3-year RFS was 65%, even with a less aggressive strategy. CONCLUSION: Surgical resection after evaluation using Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) should be the standard treatment for localized rectal cancer (T0-T2) in elderly patients, as it is in younger patients. For locally advanced lesions (T3-T4), results obtained after a conservative approach suggest that a non-surgical strategy can be used in elderly patients.


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Neoplasias del Recto/diagnóstico , Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Factores de Edad , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Análisis de Varianza , Terapia Combinada , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Francia , Evaluación Geriátrica , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasias del Recto/cirugía , Estudios Retrospectivos , Resultado del Tratamiento
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J Cheminform ; 5(1): 41, 2013 Sep 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24059694

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BACKGROUND: While a large body of work exists on comparing and benchmarking of descriptors of molecular structures, a similar comparison of protein descriptor sets is lacking. Hence, in the current work a total of 13 different protein descriptor sets have been compared with respect to their behavior in perceiving similarities between amino acids. The descriptor sets included in the study are Z-scales (3 variants), VHSE, T-scales, ST-scales, MS-WHIM, FASGAI and BLOSUM, and a novel protein descriptor set termed ProtFP (4 variants). We investigate to which extent descriptor sets show collinear as well as orthogonal behavior via principal component analysis (PCA). RESULTS: In describing amino acid similarities, MSWHIM, T-scales and ST-scales show related behavior, as do the VHSE, FASGAI, and ProtFP (PCA3) descriptor sets. Conversely, the ProtFP (PCA5), ProtFP (PCA8), Z-Scales (Binned), and BLOSUM descriptor sets show behavior that is distinct from one another as well as both of the clusters above. Generally, the use of more principal components (>3 per amino acid, per descriptor) leads to a significant differences in the way amino acids are described, despite that the later principal components capture less variation per component of the original input data. CONCLUSION: In this work a comparison is provided of how similar (and differently) currently available amino acids descriptor sets behave when converting structure to property space. The results obtained enable molecular modelers to select suitable amino acid descriptor sets for structure-activity analyses, e.g. those showing complementary behavior.

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J Cheminform ; 5(1): 42, 2013 Sep 24.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24059743

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BACKGROUND: While a large body of work exists on comparing and benchmarking descriptors of molecular structures, a similar comparison of protein descriptor sets is lacking. Hence, in the current work a total of 13 amino acid descriptor sets have been benchmarked with respect to their ability of establishing bioactivity models. The descriptor sets included in the study are Z-scales (3 variants), VHSE, T-scales, ST-scales, MS-WHIM, FASGAI, BLOSUM, a novel protein descriptor set (termed ProtFP (4 variants)), and in addition we created and benchmarked three pairs of descriptor combinations. Prediction performance was evaluated in seven structure-activity benchmarks which comprise Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) dipeptidic inhibitor data, and three proteochemometric data sets, namely (1) GPCR ligands modeled against a GPCR panel, (2) enzyme inhibitors (NNRTIs) with associated bioactivities against a set of HIV enzyme mutants, and (3) enzyme inhibitors (PIs) with associated bioactivities on a large set of HIV enzyme mutants. RESULTS: The amino acid descriptor sets compared here show similar performance (<0.1 log units RMSE difference and <0.1 difference in MCC), while errors for individual proteins were in some cases found to be larger than those resulting from descriptor set differences ( > 0.3 log units RMSE difference and >0.7 difference in MCC). Combining different descriptor sets generally leads to better modeling performance than utilizing individual sets. The best performers were Z-scales (3) combined with ProtFP (Feature), or Z-Scales (3) combined with an average Z-Scale value for each target, while ProtFP (PCA8), ST-Scales, and ProtFP (Feature) rank last. CONCLUSIONS: While amino acid descriptor sets capture different aspects of amino acids their ability to be used for bioactivity modeling is still - on average - surprisingly similar. Still, combining sets describing complementary information consistently leads to small but consistent improvement in modeling performance (average MCC 0.01 better, average RMSE 0.01 log units lower). Finally, performance differences exist between the targets compared thereby underlining that choosing an appropriate descriptor set is of fundamental for bioactivity modeling, both from the ligand- as well as the protein side.

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Cancer Radiother ; 17(2): 143-50, 2013 Apr.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23582604

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Low dose-rate brachytherapy as a boost after concomitant chemoradiation therapy is a standard of care for locally advanced anal carcinoma, providing a rigorous selection taking into account the initial staging and tumor response to external beam radiotherapy. Local control is likely to be superior when the boost is performed with brachytherapy than with external beam radiotherapy. The several steps of the brachytherapy procedure are described. The standard treatment scheme is a concomitant chemoradiation therapy, including 45 Gy (1,8 Gy × 5) pelvic external beam radiotherapy and two courses of 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin-C, followed by a 15 Gy brachytherapy boost with a gap limited to 2 to 3 weeks. Higher irradiation dose for the most advanced cases has not yet demonstrated a therapeutic gain in terms of colostomy free survival. Exclusive brachytherapy for in-situ carcinoma or invasive carcinoma less than 10mm is not recommended due to a high risk of local recurrence. Pulsed dose rate brachytherapy is an alternative to low dose rate brachytherapy (iridium wires) providing the respect of the recommended dose rate (0.5 to 1 Gy/hour). High dose rate brachytherapy is still under evaluation.


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Neoplasias del Ano/radioterapia , Braquiterapia/métodos , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/radioterapia , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapéutico , Neoplasias del Ano/patología , Neoplasias del Ano/cirugía , Neoplasias del Ano/terapia , Braquiterapia/efectos adversos , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/patología , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/cirugía , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/terapia , Quimioradioterapia , Terapia Combinada , Contraindicaciones , Femenino , Fluorouracilo/administración & dosificación , Humanos , Radioisótopos de Iridio/uso terapéutico , Masculino , Mitomicina/administración & dosificación , Radiometría , Radiofármacos/uso terapéutico , Dosificación Radioterapéutica , Planificación de la Radioterapia Asistida por Computador , Radioterapia Guiada por Imagen , Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Cancer Radiother ; 16(8): 688-96, 2012 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23153504

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PURPOSE: In 1998 a translational research was initiated in Lyon aiming at identifying a prognostic "biomolecular signature" in rectal cancer. This paper presents the clinical outcome of the patients included in this study. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 94 patients were included between 1998 and 2001. A staging with rectoscopy and biopsies was performed before treatment. In case of surgery, the operative specimen was analysed to evaluate the pathological response. There were two types of treatment: neoadjuvant radiotherapy (with or without concurrent chemotherapy) followed by surgery (76 cases) and radiotherapy alone with 'contactherapy' often associated with external beam radiotherapy (18 patients). RESULTS: The patients had a mean age of 63years. Stage was T1: 4, T2: 24, T3: 65 and T4: 1. The overall survival of the 94 patients was 62% at 8years with a rate of distant metastases of 29%. Rate of local recurrence at 8years was 6% in the neoadjuvant group and 16% in the radiotherapy group with an overall 8years survival in both groups respectively: 64% and 53%. There was a trend towards more metastases in cT3, tumour diameter above 4cm, circumferential extension. There was a significant increase in the risk of metastases for ypT3, ypN1-2 and Dworak score 1-2-3. In multivariate analysis ypT3 was significantly associated with a high rate of metastases (55%; P=0.0003). CONCLUSION: The rate of distant metastases is a major prognostic factor. These clinical results will serve as the base line to identify a "biomolecular signature" which could complement the TN(M) classification.


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Neoplasias del Recto/mortalidad , Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Carcinoma/mortalidad , Carcinoma/patología , Carcinoma/terapia , Quimioterapia Adyuvante , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Análisis Multivariante , Terapia Neoadyuvante , Metástasis de la Neoplasia , Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Pronóstico , Estudios Prospectivos , Radioterapia Adyuvante , Neoplasias del Recto/patología , Medición de Riesgo
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Cancer Radiother ; 16(8): 711-20, 2012 Dec.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23182080

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In the last 10 years, a number of important European randomized published studies investigated the optimal management of rectal cancer. In order to define an evidence-based approach of the clinical practice based, an international consensus conference was organized in Italy under the endorsement of European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and European Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ESTRO). The aim of this article is to present highlights of multidisciplinary rectal cancer management and to compare the conclusions of the international conference on 'Multidisciplinary Rectal Cancer Treatment: looking for an European Consensus' (EURECA-CC2) with the new National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines.


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Grupo de Atención al Paciente , Neoplasias del Recto/terapia , Quimioprevención , Terapia Combinada , Europa (Continente) , Humanos , Ganglios Linfáticos/patología , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Tamizaje Masivo , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Guías de Práctica Clínica como Asunto , Neoplasias del Recto/epidemiología , Neoplasias del Recto/genética , Neoplasias del Recto/patología
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Cancer Radiother ; 16 Suppl: S5-9, 2012 Jun.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22578900

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PURPOSE: At the request of the French nuclear safety authority (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, ASN) a working party of multidisciplinary experts was initiated to elaborate a report regarding propositions for the clinical practice of stereotactic radiation therapy and the related medical physics. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Several stereotactic radiation therapy experts were audited by the working party, especially neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists, as well as radiation oncologists, medical physicists and radiation technologists. An international survey was conducted looking at legal requirements and guidelines concerning stereotactic radiation therapy. A national survey was conducted in France among 29 departments performing stereotactic radiation therapy. The working party report was submitted for advice to the permanent group of medical experts of ASN. RESULTS: Among the 13 countries who responded, very few have legal documents. Some of them are stating that stereotactic radiation therapy must be performed in a radiotherapy department and only by well-trained professionals. Guidelines describing the role of each participant have been published in the USA. In France, stereotactic radiation therapy is performed with dedicated machines or adapted linear accelerators. In 2009, within the 29 departments, 4247 patients were treated with stereotactic radiation therapy representing 4% of the patients treated with external beam radiation therapy. Intracranial lesions were: 3383 and extracranial: 864. The working party of multidisciplinary experts made 7 recommendations. The first one saying that stereotactic radiation therapy must be considered as a radiotherapy. The permanent group of medical experts is asking to modify the "décret du 19 mars 2007" regarding "radiosurgery". CONCLUSION: The medical benefit of stereotactic radiation therapy is well admitted and it is an increasingly used technique. This work through practical guidelines and legal propositions intends to promote a well-controlled development of this radiotherapy technique.


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Radiocirugia/normas , Administración de la Seguridad , Seguridad , Francia , Humanos , Aceleradores de Partículas , Control de Calidad
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