Léon Bérard Center
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Cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract (VADS)
Digestive neuroendocrine tumors
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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 [1], Colorectal [2], Skin [3], Thyroid [4], Kidney [5], Prostate [6], Cervical [7], Colorectal [8], ENT [9].
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 |
