Orsay - CPO

The Orsay Protontherapy Center is part of the technical Institut Curie’s radiotherapy platform, which is now, one of the most comprehensive in Europe. It welcomes patients from all over France and abroad. In the Ile-de-France, outside the direct recruitment of the Institut Curie, patients can be addressed by the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and the Institut Gustave Roussy, partners of the center since its inception. Located on the campus of the University of Paris XI, the Proton Therapy Center is close to the laboratories of the Research Center of the Institut Curie.

Facade of the ICPO, Orsay.      

If the first treatments performed where related with melanoma of the eye, now the tumor sites supported were diversified. In 1993, certain tumors of the skull base in adults and children - and in very young children since 2006, when the installation of general anesthesia - could benefit from proton therapy. This extension of the therapeutic indications will be further amplified through the isocentric arm that guides the beam around the patient from all angles and thus handle new tumor sites previously unavailable.

The protontherapy center in working with a network of experts and scientists has established partnerships with the CNRS (IPNO, GANIL) and CEA for radiation protection, robotics, dosimetry, modeling of the beam and radiation biology, as well as the other centers in the world on R & D projects or clinical collaborations

 ICPO cyclotron, Orsay.

Contact : Alain Fourquet et Rémi Dendale

 Research teams involed in the Paris-Orsay node are :

The Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety missions are to study the radio-induced pathologies and notably those that may result from medical exams or treatments. Researches concerns also biological effects caused by ionizing radiations.

Contacts : Jean-François Bottollier and Marc Benderitter

The laboratory of "Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie" with the team "Nouvelles Approches en Radiothérapie" which works on the spatial fragmentation of the dode with mini-beams utilization.

Contact : Yolanda Prezado

The institute Gustave Roussy via  the team U1030 works on the study of biological effectiveness of proton beams and on the caracterisation of induced damages by protons. 

Contact : Frédérique Megnin-Chanet

The Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory and more specificaly the Medical Application team work on medical instrumentation. The team is focused on TEP imaging, GEANT 4 modelisation and beam profilers.

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