The Centre Léon Bérard is a hospital dedicated 100% to cancer care and research
The Centre Léon Bérard is dedicated exclusively to cancer care.
It offers people with cancer a service that begins as early as possible in the care pathway: from screening and diagnosis through to treatment. It treats all types of cancer, wherever they are located (breast, lung, colon, skin, etc.) and regardless of the stage of the disease, from the early stages through to the most advanced stages requiring referral and expertise.
The Centre Léon Bérard (CLB) is a referral center, certified by the National Cancer Institute (INCa) for the treatment of rare pathologies such as sarcomas, rare ovarian cancers and mesotheliomas. Its teams are at the cutting edge in the care of children in radiotherapy as well as complex tumors of the digestive system, ENT cancers, thoracic tumors, and hematology, among others.
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All forms of hospital care
The Centre Léon Bérard is also innovative in its approach to different forms of hospital care. In the 1990s, it was the first healthcare facility to create a team dedicated to home-based care. Today, it offers all forms of hospital care: conventional, outpatient, and home-based care.
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Supporting you during your care
The comfort and well-being of patients in their daily lives is a major concern of CLB care staff. They offer patients support (pain management, psychological support, social assistance, etc.), as well as other services, such as appropriate physical exercise, well-being workshops and therapeutic education.
Focus on outpatient care
Thanks to advances in research, cancer treatments can increasingly be offered to outpatients – whether chemotherapy, surgery or interventional radiology. The patient comes for a check-up or for treatment during the day and can return home once it is over, without staying overnight. This form of care is favored by the vast majority of patients and represents the future of cancer care. More than 85% of chemotherapy treatments are now carried out on an outpatient basis. Surgery is also increasingly being performed on patients who return home the same day and are checked by a nurse the following day. Currently, 50% of breast cancers are treated in this way.
Prevention first and foremost
We could avoid 40% of cancers if we changed our daily behavior.
Prevention is a key part of the Centre Léon Bérard’s strategic initiative for 2016-2021, with the development of our screening services (breast and colorectal cancers, particularly in the context of organized screening by Adémas 69, or in oncogenetics) and patient follow-up during and after their cancer. Discover our actions on prevention and our screening services. In addition, two departments – ‘Cancer and the Environment’ and ‘Public Health’ – are also developing prevention programs.
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The right care for every age group
Adapting care to each patient, not only according to his or her illness, state of health and social situation, but also in accordance with his or her age – this is part of our facility’s medical and scientific plan for 2016-2021:
- Patients aged 0-20 are cared for at the Institute of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (IHOPe)
- Patients aged 15-25 are integrated into the Initiative for adolescents and young adults in cancer care (Dispositif adolescent et jeunes adultes en cancérologie), or DAJAC, certified by the INCa, and they can opt to be hospitalized in the pediatric or the adult section.
- Patients aged over 70 are cared for by an oncogeriatric team.
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Our territory
The Centre Léon Bérard is recognized by the SROS, the Regional Strategic Health Plan (Schéma régional d’organisation sanitaire) as a regional referral center for cancer care. Its territory is the Rhône-Alpes region (Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie), but its influence extends well beyond the region, as it also cares for patients from the rest of France (mainland and overseas) and other countries.