Institut Jules Bordet
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Training: Internships
Content type: Provides training regarding oncologic care and research to students of different areas under the supervision of experts.
Target audience: Students in medicine, nursery, psychology, paramedics, and scientists.
Access: Information [1].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | 3 | |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | 2 (high field-strength MR imaging with a linear accelerator in a single system) | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | yes (digital) | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | yes | |
| Machine | High-intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) | yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | 1 | |
| Technique | Interventional Radiology | yes | |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound-Guided Transcutaneous Tru-Cut Biopsy (USGTCB) | yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | yes | |
| Technique | X-rays | yes | |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | yes | |
| Technique | E/S Fine-needle biopsy | yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | yes | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | yes | |
| Facility | Radionuclide treatment facilities | yes | |
| Machine | SPECT | 1 | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | 1 | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | yes | |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | yes | |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | yes | |
| Technique | Cytometry | yes | |
| Technique | Liquid biopsy | yes | |
| Technique | Immunofluorescence techniques | yes | |
| Technique | Histochemistry | yes | |
| Technique | Techniques for molecular pathology | yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | PI3KCA | yes | |
| Technique | BRAF | yes | |
| Technique | NTRK | yes | |
| Technique | RET | yes | |
| Technique | MET | yes | |
| Technique | COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PANELS | yes | |
| Technique | KRAS | yes | |
| Technique | EGFR | yes | |
| Technique | ALK | yes | |
| Technique | ROS | yes | |
| Technique | HER2 status | yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Laser Capture/Cutting Microdissection (LCM) | yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | 5 | |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | 6 | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | 6 | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | 5 | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | 6 | |
| Specialist | Soft tissue surgery | 4 | |
| Specialist | Orthopaedic surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | 4 | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | yes | |
| Technique | image guided surgery | yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | 4 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | yes | |
| Facility | Proton/carbon facilities | yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | 2 (low dose -LDR- and high dose -HDR- units) | |
| Technique | Treatment Planning System | yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic intra- and extracranial radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Locoregional chemotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | yes | |
| Technique | Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT) | yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | yes | |
| Technique | Proton therapy | yes | |
| Technique | Respiratory motion management | yes | |
| Technique | Adaptive radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Conventional simulation | yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Knife | yes | |
| Machine | CyberKnife | yes | |
| Machine | TomoTherapy Machines | yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Bone marrow / stem cell bank | 3 | |
| Facility | Cellular therapy unit with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) | yes | |
| Facility | Number of laminar flow rooms | 6 | |
| Facility | Number of sterile rooms | 12 | |
| Machine | Cytopheresis machine | yes | |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | yes | 35 |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | yes | 35 |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | 1 | |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | 10 | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | 15 | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | 15 | |
| Specialist | Social worker | yes | |
| Specialist | Spiritual care | yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | 6 | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | yes |
Prevention
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Smoking detoxification center | yes |
Quality of Life
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Supportive care unit | yes |
Resource: Aesthetic Care and Well-Being
Content type: Nurses specialized in this area provide information on how to diminish the consequences of cancer treatment and promote relaxation treatments.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and patients who finished cancer treatment.
Access: Information [2].
Resource: Help Center for Smokers (CAF)
Content type: Provides individual and group consultations with doctors, psychologists and tobaccologists to help patients quit smoking, and, as a result, promote cancer prevention.
Target audience: Smokers.
Access: Information [3].
Resource: Lymphology Care
Content type: Provide care for lymphatic system disorders triggered, or not, by oncological procedures and resolve patients' doubts regarding this matter.
Target audience: Patients with lymphatic system disorders.
Access: Information [4].
Resource: Psycho-Oncology Care
Content type: Individual and group psychological and psychiatric care, psychotherapies, neuropsychological consultations and treatment, smoking cessation aid.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and their relatives.
Access: Information [5].
Resource: Trials List
Primary Purpose: Provides a tool for patients to find active trials to participate.
Target audience: Oncological patients.
