Established in 1999, the IFCT consolidates medical and scientific expertise in thoracic oncology, giving it the unique capacity to recruit patients for all phases of cancer treatment evaluation. The IFCT has its own operational infrastructure and is equipped to design, promote, and carry out clinical studies in France and internationally, and to communicate the findings thus obtained.The IFCT is a major player in clinical oncology research, with thousands of patients enrolled in investigations since its establishment, and findings published in the most highly recognized medical journals (Lancet, JCO, etc.). The IFCT’s activity regularly results in the introduction of new drugs or strategies that improve the efficacy, safety, and/or economic impact of anti-cancer therapies. This in turn leads to better patient management. The IFCT also got involved since decade to develop translational research by associating systematically one or several studies with every decades clinical trial.