Dupont C., Reyns N., Mordon S., Vermandel M.   Photodynamic Therapy in Neurosurgery: A Proof of Concept of Treatment Planning System.  -.  2017 ;10047
Dupont C., Reyns N., Deleporte P., Mordon S. R., Vermandel M.   CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL DEVICE FOR INTRAOPERATIVE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY IN NEUROSURGERY.  Lasers Surg. Med..  2017 ;49 :50-50
Dupont C., Reyns N., Deleporte P., Mordon S., Vermandel M.   Intraoperative Photodynamic Treatment for High-Grade Gliomas.  -.  2017 ;10047
Dupont C., Betrouni N., Mordon S. R., Reyns N., Vermandel M.   5-ALA Photodynamic Therapy in Neurosurgery, Towards the Design of a Treatment Planning System: A Proof of Concept.  IRBM.  2017 ;38 :34-41
Long G. V., Hauschild A., Santinami M., Atkinson V., Mandala M., Chiarion-Sileni V., Larkin J., Nyakas M., Dutriaux C., Haydon A., Robert C., Mortier L., Schachter J., Schadendorf D., Lesimple T., Plummer R., Ji R., Zhang P., Mookerjee B., Legos J., Kefford R., Dummer R., Kirkwood J. M.   Adjuvant Dabrafenib plus Trametinib in Stage III BRAF-Mutated Melanoma.  N. Engl. J. Med..  2017 ;377 :1813-1823

BACKGROUND: Combination therapy with the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib plus the MEK inhibitor trametinib improved survival in patients with advanced melanoma with BRAF V600 mutations. We sought to determine whether adjuvant dabrafenib plus trametinib would improve outcomes in patients with resected, stage III melanoma with BRAF V600 mutations. METHODS: In this double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned 870 patients with completely resected, stage III melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations to receive oral dabrafenib at a dose of 150 mg twice daily plus trametinib at a dose of 2 mg once daily (combination therapy, 438 patients) or two matched placebo tablets (432 patients) for 12 months. The primary end point was relapse-free survival. Secondary end points included overall survival, distant metastasis-free survival, freedom from relapse, and safety. RESULTS: At a median follow-up of 2.8 years, the estimated 3-year rate of relapse-free survival was 58% in the combination-therapy group and 39% in the placebo group (hazard ratio for relapse or death, 0.47; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.39 to 0.58; P<0.001). The 3-year overall survival rate was 86% in the combination-therapy group and 77% in the placebo group (hazard ratio for death, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.42 to 0.79; P=0.0006), but this level of improvement did not cross the prespecified interim analysis boundary of P=0.000019. Rates of distant metastasis-free survival and freedom from relapse were also higher in the combination-therapy group than in the placebo group. The safety profile of dabrafenib plus trametinib was consistent with that observed with the combination in patients with metastatic melanoma. CONCLUSIONS: Adjuvant use of combination therapy with dabrafenib plus trametinib resulted in a significantly lower risk of recurrence in patients with stage III melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations than the adjuvant use of placebo and was not associated with new toxic effects. (Funded by GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis; COMBI-AD ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01682083 ; EudraCT number, 2012-001266-15 .).

De Wolf J., Bellier J., Lepimpec-Barthes F., Tronc F., Peillon C., Bernard A., Le Rochais J. P., Tiffet O., Sage E., Chapelier A., Porte H.   Exhaustive preoperative staging increases survival in resected adrenal oligometastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: a multicentre studyaEuro.  Eur. J. Cardio-Thorac. Surg..  2017 ;52 :698-703
Azais H., Ghesquiere L., Petitnicolas C., Borghesi Y., Tresch-Bruneel E., Cordoba A., Narducci F., Bresson L., Leblanc E.   Pretherapeutic staging of locally advanced cervical cancer: Inframesenteric paraaortic lymphadenectomy accuracy to detect paraaortic metastases in comparison with infrarenal paraaortic lymphadenectomy.  Gynecol. Oncol..  2017 ;147 :340-344

BACKGROUND: Extended-field chemoradiation therapy is usually performed in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) and paraaortic (PA) node metastases. Considering the very low rate of skip metastases above inferior mesenteric artery, ilio-inframesenteric paraaortic lymph node dissection (IM-PALND) seems to be an adequate pattern of PALND. Our objective was to assess the accuracy of this management to determine PA nodal status in comparison with infrarenal paraaortic lymphadenectomy (IR-PALND) in case of squamous or glandular cervical cancer. METHODS: All patients with LACC and negative MRI and PET/CT imaging at paraaortic level had laparoscopic staging (followed, if negative, by extraperitoneal paraaortic lymphadenectomy). From January 2011 to September 2015, patients who had IM-PALND were included and were compared to a previous historical series of IR-PALND patients. The two groups differed only at the upper level of dissection. Characteristics of nodal involvement at paraaortic level depending on level of dissection, PET/CT imaging and histology were studied. RESULTS: 119 women were included in our study, with 56 patients in the IM-PALND group and 63 in the IR-PALND group. In the IM-PALND group, fewer nodes were resected (p<0.001). There was no difference between the two groups regarding nodal status at paraaortic level (p=0.77). Patterns of nodal involvement were similar whichever the histological subtype of cervical cancer (squamous or glandular). CONCLUSION: IM-PALND appears to be equally effective to assess paraaortic nodal involvement in LACC for both histological subtypes - glandular and squamous carcinomas - and to select patients for extended-field chemoradiation therapy.

Girard E., Lacour A., Abi Rached H., Ramdane N., Templier C., Dziwniel V., Desmedt E., Le Rhun E., Mortier L.   Occurrence of vismodegib-induced cramps in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma: a prospective study in 30 patients.  J. Am. Acad. Dermatol..  2017 ;78 :1213-1216 e2
Bassil A., Rubod C., Borghesi Y., Kerbage Y., Schreiber E. S., Azaïs H., Garabedian C.   Operative and diagnostic hysteroscopy: A novel learning model combining new animal models and virtual reality simulation.  Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol..  2017 ;211 :42-47

CONTEXT: Hysteroscopy is one of the most common gynaecological procedure. Training for diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy can be achieved through numerous previously described models like animal models or virtual reality simulation. We present our novel combined model associating virtual reality and bovine uteruses and bladders. STUDY DESIGN: End year residents in obstetrics and gynaecology attended a full day workshop. The workshop was divided in theoretical courses from senior surgeons and hands-on training in operative hysteroscopy and virtual reality Essure((R)) procedures using the EssureSim and Pelvicsim simulators with multiple scenarios. Theoretical and operative knowledge was evaluated before and after the workshop and General Points Averages (GPAs) were calculated and compared using a Student's T test. RESULTS: GPAs were significantly higher after the workshop was completed. The biggest difference was observed in operative knowledge (0,28 GPA before workshop versus 0,55 after workshop, p<0,05). All of the 25 residents having completed the workshop applauded the realism an efficiency of this type of training. The force feedback allowed by the cattle uteruses gives the residents the possibility to manage thickness of resection as in real time surgery. Furthermore, the two-horned bovine uteruses allowed to reproduce septa resection in conditions close to human surgery CONCLUSION: Teaching operative and diagnostic hysteroscopy is essential. Managing this training through a full day workshop using a combined animal model and virtual reality simulation is an efficient model not described before.

Orczyk C., Rosenkrantz A. B., Mikheev A., Villers A., Bernaudin M., Taneja S. S., Valable S., Rusinek H.   3D Registration of mpMRI for Assessment of Prostate Cancer Focal Therapy.  Acad. Radiol..  2017 ;24 :1544-1555

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess a novel method of three-dimensional (3D) co-registration of prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations performed before and after prostate cancer focal therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We developed a software platform for automatic 3D deformable co-registration of prostate MRI at different time points and applied this method to 10 patients who underwent focal ablative therapy. MRI examinations were performed preoperatively, as well as 1 week and 6 months post treatment. Rigid registration served as reference for assessing co-registration accuracy and precision. RESULTS: Segmentation of preoperative and postoperative prostate revealed a significant postoperative volume decrease of the gland that averaged 6.49 cc (P = .017). Applying deformable transformation based on mutual information from 120 pairs of MRI slices, we refined by 2.9 mm (max. 6.25 mm) the alignment of the ablation zone, segmented from contrast-enhanced images on the 1-week postoperative examination, to the 6-month postoperative T2-weighted images. This represented a 500% improvement over the rigid approach (P = .001), corrected by volume. The dissimilarity by Dice index of the mapped ablation zone using deformable transformation vs rigid control was significantly (P = .04) higher at the ablation site than in the whole gland. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings illustrate our method's ability to correct for deformation at the ablation site. The preliminary analysis suggests that deformable transformation computed from mutual information of preoperative and follow-up MRI is accurate in co-registration of MRI examinations performed before and after focal therapy. The ability to localize the previously ablated tissue in 3D space may improve targeting for image-guided follow-up biopsy within focal therapy protocols.