Dr. Louis Lacombe is a urologist-oncologist and clinical researcher at the CHU de Québec, and more specifically at L’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.

Dr. Lacombe completed his medical training in Sherbrooke in 1988 and then completed a specialization in Urology at Laval University in 1993. Subsequently, Dr. Lacombe traveled to New York at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center associated with Cornell University to perform a subspecialisation in uro-oncology. This subspecialisation ended in 1996.

Following this subspecialisation, Dr. Lacombe joined the Urology Department of the CHU de Québec in July 1996. As a urologist, Dr. Lacombe specializes in complex surgeries associated with prostate, kidney, testicular and bladder cancer. He also collaborates in kidney transplant surgery.

Research at the Experimental Uro-oncology Laboratory aims to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy of prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers, and thus cover many aspects of research, from basic research to applied research. His interest is mainly focused on bladder cancer.

Dr. Lacombe is also actively involved in clinical research by conducting numerous Phase I, Phase II or Phase III clinical trials to test new drugs or therapies. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator in more than 120 studies since the beginning of his career.

He has published more than 110 scientific papers and more than 250 scientific abstracts, and has presented at many international conferences.

Throughout his career, he has been awarded the FRQS Junior I and II Clinician Fellowship. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Surgery, and since 2016 he is the Director of the University Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine at Laval University.

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Lafront C, Germain L, Campolina-Silva GH, Weidmann C, Berthiaume L, Hovington H, Brisson H, Jobin C, Frégeau-Proulx L, Cotau R, Gonthier K, Lacouture A, Caron P, Ménard C, Atallah C, Riopel J, Latulippe É, Bergeron A, Toren P, Guillemette C, Pelletier M, Fradet Y, Belleannée C, Pouliot F, Lacombe L, Lévesque É, Audet-Walsh É

The estrogen signaling pathway reprograms prostate cancer cell metabolism and supports proliferation and disease progression

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J Clin Invest, 134 (11), 2024.

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Molina OE, LaRue H, Simonyan D, Hovington H, Vittrant B, Têtu B, Fradet V, Lacombe L, Bergeron A, Fradet Y

Regulatory and memory T lymphocytes infiltrating prostate tumors predict long term clinical outcomes

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Front Immunol, 15 , 2024.

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Garneau CA, Marcotte N, Lacombe L, Fradet Y, Fradet V, Pouliot F, Toren P, Lodde M

Salvage therapy for BCG failure with intravesical sequential gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with recurrent NMIBC

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Can Urol Assoc J, 18 (2), 2024.

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Wissing M, Brimo F, McKercher G, Scarlata E, Saad F, Carmel M, Lacombe L, Têtu B, Ekindi-Ndongo N, Latour M, Trudel D, Chevalier S, Aprikian A

Long term evaluation of optimized Gleason grading in a large cohort of men with prostate cancer in Canada

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Hum Pathol, 146 , 2024.

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Robitaille K, Guertin MH, Jamshidi A, Xu HW, Hovington H, Pelletier JF, Beaudoin L, Gevariya N, Lacombe L, Tiguert R, Caumartin Y, Dujardin T, Toren P, Lodde M, Racine É, Trudel D, Perigny M, Duchesne T, Savard J, Julien P, Fradet Y, Fradet V

A phase IIb randomized placebo-controlled trial testing the effect of MAG-EPA long-chain omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplement on prostate cancer proliferation

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Commun Med (Lond), 4 (1), 2024.

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Rouleau M, Nguyen Van Long F, Turcotte V, Caron P, Lacombe L, Aprikian A, Saad F, Carmel M, Chevalier S, Lévesque E, Guillemette C

Extensive metabolic consequences of human glycosyltransferase gene knockouts in prostate cancer

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Br J Cancer, 128 (2), 2023.

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Gonthier K, Weidmann C, Berthiaume L, Jobin C, Lacouture A, Lafront C, Harvey M, Neveu B, Loehr J, Bergeron A, Fradet Y, Lacombe L, Riopel J, Latulippe É, Atallah C, Shum M, Lambert JP, Pouliot F, Pelletier M, Audet-Walsh É

Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 sustains a hybrid cytoplasmic-mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid cycle that can be targeted for therapeutic purposes in prostate cancer

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Mol Oncol, 17 (10), 2023.

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Moussa H, Robitaille K, Pelletier JF, Tourigny R, Fradet Y, Lacombe L, Toren P, Lodde M, Tiguert R, Dujardin T, Caumartin Y, Duchesne T, Julien P, Savard J, Diorio C, Fradet V

Effects of Concentrated Long-Chain Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation on Quality of Life after Radical Prostatectomy: A Phase II Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial (RCT-EPA)

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Nutrients, 15 (6), 2023.

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Dahmani C, Caron P, Simonyan D, Lacombe L, Aprikian A, Saad F, Carmel M, Chevalier S, Lévesque E, Guillemette C

Preoperative Circulating 11-Oxygenated Androgens Are Associated With Metastasis-free Survival in Localized Prostate Cancer

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J Urol, 209 (2), 2023.

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Lacombe L, Hovington H, Brisson H, Mehdi S, Beillevaire D, Émond JP, Wagner A, Villeneuve L, Simonyan D, Ouellet V, Barrès V, Latour M, Aprikian A, Bergeron A, Castonguay V, Couture F, Chevalier S, Brimo F, Fazli L, Fleshner N, Gleave M, Karakiewicz PI, Lattouf JB, Trudel D, van der Kwast T, Mes-Masson AM, Pouliot F, Fradet Y, Audet-Walsh E, Saad F, Guillemette C, Lévesque E

UGT2B28 accelerates prostate cancer progression through stabilization of the endocytic adaptor protein HIP1 regulating AR and EGFR pathways

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Cancer Lett, 553 , 2023.

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