Léon Bérard Center
Trials
Experts
Cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract (VADS)
Digestive neuroendocrine tumors
Specialties
Learning Resources
Compilation: Training Institute
Primary purpose: Provide a variety of training courses for people in a variety of healthcare positions.
Target audience: A variety of healthcare professionals.
Information: Information [1].
Compilation: University Courses
Primary purpose: Provide a variety of university courses for people in a variety of healthcare positions, with the support of the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
Target audience: A variety of healthcare professionals.
Information: Information [2].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Screening: Cancer Screening Program
Primary purpose: To detect cancer or precancerous conditions early, when they are most effectively treated.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Breast [3], Colorectal [4], Skin [5], Thyroid [6], Kidney [7], Prostate [8], Cervical [9], Colorectal [10], ENT [11].
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | 2 | 14.475 (2021) |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | 2 | 8,740 (2021) |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | 2 | 6,509 (2021) |
| Machine | Digitalised imaging (PACS) | Yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | 6,727 (2021) |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | 3 | 3,887 (2021) |
| Technique | Interventional Radiology | Yes | 2,842 (2021) |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereostatic biopsy | Yes | 197 (2021) |
| Technique | Echo-guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Percutaneous biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Radioisotope | Yes | |
| Technique | X-rays | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | 2 | 7.909 (2020); 9.681 (2021) |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | Yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | Yes | |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | Yes | |
| Technique | Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) | Yes | |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | Yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | Yes | |
| Technique | Liquid biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Histochemistry | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | Yes | |
| Technique | Total molecular biology procedures | 3.544 (2020); 4,150 (2021) | |
| Technique | Total cytology procedures | 2.458 (2020); 3,017 (2021) | |
| Technique | Total pathology procedures | 20.373 (2020) | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Technique | KRAS | Yes | |
| Technique | EGFR | Yes | |
| Technique | ALK | Yes | |
| Technique | ROS | Yes | |
| Technique | HER2 status | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Isolated Limb Hyperthermic Perfusion | Yes | |
| Technique | CHIP or intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | 8 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | Yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | 841 (2021) |
| Machine | Intrabeam | Yes | |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia ( HIPEC) | Yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel Lymph Node | Yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | Yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | Yes | |
| Technique | Proton therapy | Yes | |
| Machine | CyberKnife | 1 | 1,588 (2021) |
| Machine | TomoTherapy Machines | 1 | 11,269 (2021) |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | Yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | Endoprosthesis | Yes | |
| Technique | Interventional Endoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Biliary drainage | Yes |
Facility: Espace de Rencontres et d'Information (ERI)
Primary purpose: Serves as an informational hub and meeting place for cancer patients and their loved ones, offering resources to better understand the disease, its treatment, and its impacts, while also fostering a supportive community.
Information: Information [12].
Patient Association: The Léon Bérard Center Volunteers Association
Primary purpose: Every day in Consultation, Day Hospital and Radiotherapy, volunteers take turns from Monday to Friday to welcome and listen to patients. They offer coffee and sweets. In addition, in the Medicine department, a team is present with hospitalized patients and their relatives.
Information: Information [13].
Resource: Adaptive Physical Activity
Primary purpose: Provides comprehensive, adapted physical activity (APA) programs designed to help patients maintain or regain an active lifestyle during their treatment, with proven benefits in reducing mortality, recurrence risk, and fatigue, and improving quality of life, psychological state, and physical condition.
Information: Information [14].
Resource: Addiction Treatment
Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive support for individuals seeking to overcome addictions, particularly smoking, alcohol, and drugs, through the Center Léon Bérard's addictology system. This includes individual consultations, personalized treatment strategies, follow-ups, and education about the detrimental effects of these substances, particularly for cancer patients.
Information: Addiction treatment [15] and smoking cessation [16].
Resource: Occupational Cancer Consultation
Primary purpose: To improve the diagnosis of work-related cancers, identify potential occupational exposure, and assist patients with their compensation claims as occupational diseases.
Information: Information and contact [17].
Resource: Oncogenetics Consultation
Primary purpose: To assess potential hereditary cancer risks in families, consider possible genetic predispositions, offer appropriate genetic testing when required, and provide tailored monitoring and prevention advice based on the identified risks.
Information: Information and contact [18].
Resource: Take Care of Yourself
Primary purpose: Provide free, comprehensive wellness and beauty treatments, such as facial care, massages, manicures, corrective makeup, and hairdressing advice, aimed at enhancing the well-being and self-esteem of patients during their cancer treatment, and aiding them in managing the physical changes associated with their illness.
Information: Information [19].
Resource: Therapeutic Education For Patients and Relatives (ETAPP)
Primary purpose: To equip patients and their families with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage their life with cancer, enabling them to understand and cope with the impacts of the disease, as well as facilitating informed decision-making and self-care throughout the treatment process.
Information: Information [20].
