History
The Centre Léon Bérard is a tertiary regional comprehensive cancer centre, existing from around one hundred years. It's a member of Unicancer, the French network of 20 comprehensive cancer centres. The Centre is dedicated to care, research, teaching, and prevention for cancer. It offers up to date oncological treatments and a large range of clinical trials in medical oncology, surgery, radiotherapy or supportive care.
Profile
Supportive care department is one of the clinical departments, and works closely with all others (medical oncology, surgery, radiotherapy, emergency, home care, interventional radiology). The department includes pain management, palliative care, psycho-oncology, nutrition, social support and integrative oncology. Around fifty professionals are full or part-time members of the department, and twenty others work in the palliative care unit.
Specialities
All tumours can be treated in the Centre. Main specialities are: breast cancer, lung cancer, digestive cancer, head and neck cancer, haematology, gynaecology, dermatology, CNS cancer. The Centre is particularly specialised for rare cancers such as sarcomas, rare ovarian cancers, endocrine tumours and paediatric cancers. Special attention is paid to propose state-of-art treatment as well as to personalise treatment according to the medical and psycho-social specificity, and willing of each person.
Palliative and Supportive Care
All professionals in any unit are involved in palliative care. Supportive and palliative care needs are regularly checked all around the curse of the disease, from diagnosis to survivorship or end of life. When necessary, specialised teams are available, for ambulatory patients as well as in-patients. Four supportive care day hospital beds allow ambulatory specialised care for pain, nutrition, or integrated palliative care. The palliative care unit receives the most complex advanced patients for symptom management and psycho-social support, and for end-of-life care. Palliative care is also provided and coordinated at home when desired by patients and relatives.
Last update: February 2025
