Contact
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Telephone: Secretariat 02 31 45 86 53
- Location: 2nd floor right
The team
- Department Head: Dr Mélanie DOS SANTOS
- Health executive: François GERNIER
- Clinical research physicians :
- Dr Pierre-Emmanuel BRACHET
- Dr Hubert CURCIO
- Dr Mélanie DOS SANTOS
- Dr Alison JOHNSON
- Dr Emeline MERIAUX
Missions
This clinical research hospitalization unit, called the IRIS Unit, which stands for "Investigation, Research, Innovation, and Care," has been located in new premises on the second floor of the Center since May 2, 2022. The IRIS Unit has 10 beds/places.
Patients enrolled in therapeutic trials are now cared for in this same unit. The IRIS unit has :
- its own sampling center,
- medical and paramedical consulting rooms,
- 10 day hospital beds/places,
- with a dedicated team of professionals with expertise in clinical research.
Your career in the IRIS Unit
First of all, your oncologist must have presented and explained the study to you. If you wish, you can sign the consent form.
Your inclusion in the study is then effective, and you are cared for in the IRIS Unit. All the clinical research carried out on you is grouped together in this single department dedicated to clinical research:
- The nursing team welcomes you to the sampling center. Before each medical consultation, vital parameters (pulse, blood pressure, temperature) are measured, and examinations (ECG electrocardiograms, for example) are carried out.
- The treatment is administered under close supervision (several times an hour) by the nursing and medical teams (vital parameter measurements, patient feedback, blood sampling, etc.).
As a patient enrolled in a therapeutic trial, you may be monitored for several years, in order to evaluate the efficacy of treatments and assess any medium- or long-term toxicity.