{"entity":{"id":"marc-ychou","kind":"person","name":"Marc Ychou","aka":[],"tldr":"Medical oncologist who is Director General of the Institut du Cancer de Montpellier, the reference cancer centre for eastern Occitanie founded in 1923.","summary":"Professor Marc Ychou is Directeur Général of the Institut du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), the Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer of reference for Occitanie Est and a member of the Unicancer network; founded in 1923, it is one of the oldest French cancer centres and runs radiotherapy, medical oncology, surgery and nuclear medicine departments. The ICM governance page names him as Directeur Général working with Laetitia Brini as Directrice Générale Adjointe, with Chantal Mauchet, Préfète de l'Hérault, presiding over the Conseil d'Administration and Dr Fabienne Portalès presiding over the Conférence Médicale d'Établissement. The page gives no appointment date.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: ICM governance page","url":"https://www.icm.unicancer.fr/fr/linstitut-du-cancer-de-montpellier/decouvrir-licm/gouvernance"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","comprehensive-cancer-centre"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["icm-montpellier"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["jco","annals-of-oncology"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Directeur Général (Director General), Institut du Cancer de Montpellier","institutionId":"icm-montpellier","specialisms":["Medical oncology","Digestive oncology","Cancer centre management"],"profiles":[{"label":"ICM governance page","url":"https://www.icm.unicancer.fr/fr/linstitut-du-cancer-de-montpellier/decouvrir-licm/gouvernance"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Ychou+M%5BAuthor%5D"}],"papers":[{"title":"Perioperative Chemotherapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma: An FNCLCC and FFCD Multicenter Phase III Trial","journal":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","year":2011,"doi":"10.1200/jco.2010.33.0597"},{"title":"A randomized phase III study comparing adjuvant 5-fluorouracil/folinic acid with FOLFIRI in patients following complete resection of liver metastases from colorectal cancer","journal":"Annals of Oncology","year":2009,"doi":"10.1093/annonc/mdp236"},{"title":"A phase III randomised trial of LV5FU2 + irinotecan versus LV5FU2 alone in adjuvant high-risk colon cancer (FNCLCC Accord02/FFCD9802)","journal":"Annals of Oncology","year":2009,"doi":"10.1093/annonc/mdn680"}]},"route":"/people/marc-ychou/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"icm-montpellier","kind":"institution","name":"Institut du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM)","route":"/institutions/icm-montpellier/"}],"journal":[{"id":"annals-of-oncology","kind":"journal","name":"Annals of Oncology","route":"/journals/annals-of-oncology/"},{"id":"jco","kind":"journal","name":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","route":"/journals/jco/"}]}}