The Chest Center

What is the Chest Center?

The Curie-Montsouris Chest Center is a center of excellence for patients suffering from lung cancer and other chest diseases, whether with tumor or not. By pooling our skills and expertise from the two Institutes, we provide seamless care, from screening to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

Each stage of treatment benefits from a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together all the specialist practitioners to achieve individualized treatment that incorporates all relevant therapies and innovations. The patient files are discussed in a multidisciplinary team meeting (MDT) attended by all practitioners at the Chest Center (pneumologists, oncologists, radiotherapists, chest surgeons, radiologists, anatomopathologists, nuclear physicians, anesthesiologists, etc.).

The institute is also involved in teaching and research, both basic and clinical. It offers patients the opportunity to access the latest innovations (medical or surgical) and to take part in clinical trials.

The Chest Center healthcare offering

The healthcare offering at the Chest Center involves the expertise of the departments described below, located on the two Parisian hospital sites at Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and Institut Curie.

Pulmonology (Montsouris site)

• Treatment of respiratory diseases (lung cancer, respiratory failure, infectious diseases, thromboembolic diseases, etc.)
• Interventional respiratory medicine: rigid bronchoscopy: clearing and placement of tracheobronchial prosthesis
• Specialized endoscopy: fiberoptic endoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), mini-probe, electro-navigation (pulmonary GPS)
• Treatment of pleural diseases
• Functional respiratory explorations

Thoracic Surgery (Montsouris site)

• Lung-cancer surgery
• Surgery on tumors of the trachea, the mediastinum (tumors, thymus, cysts, etc.) of the wall and the pleura
• Surgery on pulmonary metastases
• Chest wall deformation surgery
• Minimally-invasive surgery: video-assisted (thoracoscopy), robot-assisted, endobronchial electro-navigation assisted (pulmonary GPS).

Thoracic Medical Oncology (Curie site)

• Chemotherapy, targeted therapies, immunotherapy. Treatment is offered in the day hospital with conventional hospitalization, or at the clinical investigation unit.

Radiotherapy (Curie site)

• Intensity-modulated conformal radiotherapy
• Tomotherapy and protontherapy
• Radiotherapy in stereotaxic conditions

Imaging (on both sites)

• Computed tomography
• MRI
• Diagnostic (guided biopsies) and therapeutic (radiofrequency) interventional radiology
• Nuclear medicine: tomography (PET scan) and scintigraphy

Diagnostic and Theranostic Medicine Division (on both sites)

• Anatomy and pathological cytology
• Somatic and constitutional genetics
• Clinical immunology
• Biological resource center

Research

• Clinical investigation unit (early trials, therapeutic trials, immunotherapy)
• Basic research
• Clinical immunology
• Biological resource center