The department of Biopathology of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Léon Bérard employed 9 senior consultant pathologists with recognized expertise in soft tissue tumors, melanomas, gynecologic malignancies, and thoracic tumors.
Among them, Prof Sylvie Lantuejoul is an national and international expert in thoracic pathology, member of the IASLC pathology committee, coauthor of several book chapters of the 2 last WHO classification books, and author or coauthor of more than 200 publications in the this domain.
She is also member of the National Reference Center for mesothelioma (MESOPATH) leaded by Pr F Galateau-Sallé in the department of Biopathology.
This department has a unique genetics platform which can provide with comprehensive molecular analyses (with NGS technologies, including DNA and RNA sequencing, CGH technology, Nanostring technolopgy for transcriptomic analyses), as well as FISH and IHC analyses.