Year after year, your loyalty enables our teams to accelerate cancer research and provide increasingly personalized, compassionate care. Your commitment is an essential pillar of support for our research and care teams, and a source of immense comfort for those we care for.
Thank you for standing by us with such conviction and confidence!
2025 Donation Summary
Your generosity translates into concrete actions; you are helping to:
- Strengthen prevention efforts
- Promoting early detection accessible to all
- Accelerate the development of innovative and personalized treatments
- Lasting improvements to patients' comfort and quality of life, during and after cancer treatment
6 projects financed thanks to donations
1. Comfort at the heart of our services
In the surgery and nuclear medicine departments, new
facilities are radically transforming the patient experience.
Surgical wards are now equipped with ergonomic furniture
: armchairs, chairs, tables, and bedside tables that combine design and
practicality to make daily life easier and more pleasant for hospitalized patients.
In nuclear medicine, the waiting room now features new
armchairs with enhanced comfort, allowing patients to wait in
optimal conditions before their exams.
Thanks to the generosity of donors, these renovated spaces help provide
with a warmer and more soothing environment within the Baclesse Center.
Thank you for contributing to this sense of well-being every day.
2. Lighting to make the healthcare journey more comfortable
The Baclesse Center has installed innovative lighting systems in the operating room and radi
s to improve patient comfort.
These devices display images of the sky and natural landscapes,
helping to recreate a sense of daylight and openness. They help
to soothe patients, particularly after surgery,
by reducing stress and disorientation. In radiation therapy, these lights
compensate for the lack of natural light.
These improvements help create a more
welcoming, peaceful, and comforting hospital environment throughout the patient’s care journey.
Your generosity makes these programs possible. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
3. Breast Cancer: Improving the Postoperative Care Pathway
Each year in France, more than 60,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and nearly one in four undergoes a mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction (IBR). After this procedure, wearinga properly fitted post-operative bra day and night
is essential to relieve pain
, promote comfort, and ensure proper healing.
At the Baclesse Center, a compression bra is now providedfree of charge
to every patient upon admission for a mastectomy.
Entirely funded by the generosity of donors, this charitable project
helps ensure that the breast reconstruction process is tailored to
patients’ needs, thereby improving their quality of life.
4. Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshops: Regaining Memory and Concentration After Cancer
After breast cancer, many patients experience "
e fog," which causes memory and concentration problems.
These difficulties, often linked to treatments such as chemotherapy or
hormone therapy, affect quality of life and the return to work.
To support patients facing these challenges, cognitive remediation workshops are offered. The program includes a neuropsychological assessment
, training exercises, practical advice
, and small-group discussion sessions.
These workshops are made possible by the generosity of our donors.
5. Any updates on the TRIPLEX trial?
Three years after the study began, the TRIPLEX trial continues to develop
a strategy for analyzing the response of tumor organoids
to treatments in less than a month—approximately five months before the clinical response
in patients.
In 2025, 27 patients were enrolled in the trial, enabling the creation
of 11 organoids and the generation of 8 “chemograms.” An additional 60 enrollments
are planned by 2027. The goal is now to verify
whether the responses observed in the laboratory correspond to those observed during
surgery. TRIPLEX could thus make it possible to predict patients’
response to treatments even before surgery.
6. Prostate Cancer: Coping Better with Hormone Therapy
Prostate cancer, the most common form of cancer in men, is often
treated with hormone therapy, an effective treatment that blocks the action
of testosterone.
However, it can cause physical side effects and
psychological side effects. The IMPAPRO study, conducted at the Baclesse Center, is evaluating
the benefits of personalized care to help patients better
cope with this treatment. This care, provided by a multidisciplinary team, combines
medical, nutritional, physical, and psychological support, with
enhanced nursing care for some patients over the course of a year.
The study plans to enroll 120 to 140 patients and could demonstrate
the importance of tailored, individualized monitoring in the management of
prostate cancer.
