BARLIER , Anne

Pituitary adenomas (PA) represent in the majority of cases, benign tumors whose treatment currently associate surgery, medical therapies and radiotherapy in a multidisciplinary approach. While trans-sphenoidal surgery remains, except for prolactin-secreting adenomas, the first-line treatment of PA, it can considerably be hampered by the...

Therapeutic management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) is challenging. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor everolimus recently obtained approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs). Despite its promising antitumor...

Seven cases of translocation-associated renal cell carcinoma involving ALK (ALK-tRCC) were referenced in the last World Health Organization's classification (2016), in a group of emerging/provisional RCC. The first three cases were pediatric, medullary-based, associated with sickle cell trait and showed a fusion of ALK with VCL. Thirteen cases...