Centre François BACLESSE Cancer Centre

Presentation

• The director, a physician to serve the patient
  
  
• CENTRE FRANÇOIS BACLESSE
  • Caen Normandy
  • A public service with a legally private management
  • François BACLESSE
  
  
• HIGH QUALITY FACILITIES
  • Diagnosis
    • Department of Radiology
    • Endoscopy
    • Pathology Unit
    • Nuclear Medicine
    • Clinical biology laboratories
    
    
  • Cancer treatment
    Three major therapeutic approaches are currently used to treat cancer patients : they are often used in combination. The advances that are being made in new therapies such as biological treatment and gene therapy will probably come into routine use in cancer treatment in the near future.
    • Radiotherapy
    • Surgical oncology
    • Medical oncology
  
  
  • Clinical Research
  
  
• THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
  • Bringing together different professional skills for the benefit of the patient
    • The personal doctor provides confidence
    • The multi-specialty medical staff : individual patient review
    • The therapeutic protocol : the quality standard for care
    • A regional multidisciplinary approach
  
  
• TO BE CLOSE TO AND AVAILABLE TO THE PATIENT
  • Hospitality is the key aim at our Centre
    • Welcoming the patient
    • The day hospital
    • Helping the patient in the activities of daily living
    • A complete team at every ward
    • Supporting the patient at every stage
    • Peripheral clinics
    • Nursing care plan
    • Technology with a human face
  
  
• PATIENT COMFORT AND SECURITY
  
  
• TEACHING AND INSERVICE TRAINING
  • A major asset
    • The oncology teaching programme of the Centre François Baclesse
    • Building close links with carers in the region through teaching and information
    • Continuing education of staff
  
  
• RESEARCH AND CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  One of the main goals of Centre François Baclesse is to actively promote and participate in research.
  
  
  • An important component of work at the Cancer Centre
    • The cancer registry : Enquête Permanente Cancer. A unique national databank in Europe
    • Centre François Baclesse, a leader and partner in clinical research
    • Cancer epidemiology
    
    
  • Regional and national cooperation
    • Evaluating medical techniques
    • Radiotherapy : a key investment
    
    
  • Investment in therapeutic research
    • Autologous bone marrow transplants
    • New operating theatres
    • Genetics in oncology
  
  
• TRANSMISSION OF MEDICAL INFORMATION VIA COMPUTERS
  • Since 1986, all medical records are computerised
  • Medimage : Medical images on computer
  • VIKMAN : a regional collaboration for computer research
  • ONCOLOG : an aid to prescribing chemotherapy
  
  
• MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENTS FOR THE FUTURE
  • Clinical budget
  • Research budget
  • Donations and legacies : when everyone invests in cancer research
  
  
• ACCES PLAN
  
  
• THANKS

©C.F.B. : November 1997