Centre Léon-Bérard, Lyon, France

Centre Léon-Bérard

Léon Bérard Multidisciplinary Centre is a private, non-profit, hospital dedicated to cancer treatment and research. It is affiliated with the French Federation of Cancer Centres (20 hospitals, created by government ordinance in 1945).

Centre Léon-Bérard has become a leader in its field and a reference centre for the Rhone-Alpes region of France. It has received full, unreserved agreement of the HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé), a French governmental organization for Healthcare Quality.

The centre provides patient care, aftercare, screening and prevention, with particular strengths in the areas of:

Léon Bérard (1870-1956) was a famous neck surgeon who founded a cancer hospital in 1923, which now bears his name.

CyberKnife^® VSI™ at Centre Léon-Bérard

Centre Léon-Bérard has the latest version of CyberKnife, the CyberKnife VSI system. This provides greater flexibility in the arrangement and targeting of radiation beams and real time corrections for target motion.

Every patient is different and the VSI system allows the radiation oncologist to tailor treatments accurately to individual conditions and allows shorter treatment times.

Lyon, France

CyberKnife treatments

The CyberKnife and radiotherapy team

Most of the physicians at Centre Léon-Bérard speak English and other languages include German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. Patients and accompanying relatives can be accommodated within the Centre or in nearby hotels, which the Centre will be pleased to arrange.

Centre Léon-Bérard offers most CyberKnife treatments for adults and the VSI system is particularly advantageous for treatment of soft tissue tumours, such as those in the lung.

International patients and visitors

France is part of the European Union and no visa is required for EU citizens. If you or an accompanying relative require a visa to visit France please ensure that you obtain this in good time before treatment. The national currency of France is the Euro.

Lyon Airport Saint Exupéry (LYS) offers local and international flights to a wide range of destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and more as well as high speed train (TGV) services. TGV services to Paris and other destinations across France are also available from central Lyon, with a direct tram connection (line T2) from Lyon Perrache station to Grange Blanche.

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Newsletter - Oct 2008 election of Dr Christian Carrie to board of European Sociey of Radio-oncologists (Français)

MHL CyberKnife Guide Annuaire Médical Centre Léon Bérard (directory) (Français)

Enquiries to Centre Léon Bérard

While you are waiting for fiducials to settle before beginning your CyberKnife treatment, or even on treatment days when not required at the hospital, you are free to explore France's second city and the surrounding Rhone-Alps Region. French food and wine will need no introduction (Lyon is a centre of gastronomy, even within France) and there is much to see in the Rhone Valley, Massif Central and the nearby Alps, including Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc.

And finally......

In Lyon you can visit the large Renaissance area, the silk-weavers district, linger in a series of gourmet restaurants, take in an opera or exhibition or one of Lyon's famous light shows, indulge in some retail therapy or stroll along the River Saone, taking in the local craft markets.

Photographs from Lyon Tourist Office and RhônesAlpes Tourisme

Other treatment techniques include extracranial stereotactic radiation therapy by linear accelerator, IMRT (intensity modulated radiotherapy), TBI (total body irradiation), respiratory gating radiotherapy and brachytherapy. In particular Centre Léon-Bérard has two Synergy® systems which, like CyberKnife, can offer a complete radiation treatment within one week in appropriate cases.

The brachytherapy department at Centre Léon-Bérard is one of the largest in France and provides treatment for gynaecology, head and neck cancer and prostate cancer with high dose rate, low dose rate and pulse dose rate techniques.

Radiation Therapy Department

Centre Léon-Bérard Radiotherapy Department is a very important radiotherapy facility in France. Apart from CyberKnife VSI it offers PET-CT scanning, 5 linear accelerators and a major brachytherapy unit and it treats more than 2,500 patients per year.

Other radiation treatments

CyberKnife patients in Lyon are usually treated with one to ten 'fractions' (treatment sessions). In fact most treatments consist of three to five 'fractions' over a period of one or two weeks.

Most CyberKnife patients are treated as outpatients and can stay in a local hotel within walking distance of the Centre, but in case of need you may be admitted as an in-patient.

Dr Christian Carrie
Head of Radiation Therapy
Medical Director
Brain tumours Sarcoma, Lung cancer, Prostate, Gastrointestinal cancer
Paediatric radiation therapy

Dr Line Claude
Associate Head of Dept.
Adults: Lung cancer
Hodgkin's disease.
Paediatric radiotherapy

Dr Pascal Pommier
Head and neck cancer
Base of skull cancer
Urology
Brachytherapy
Hadrontherapy

Dr Séverine Racadot
Breast and gynaecological cancers
Gastrointestinal cancer
Prostate, Head and neck cancer

Dr Marie-Pierre Sunyach
Breast
Neuro-oncology
Sarcoma

Lyon CyberKnife team - click to enlarge

Conditions treated at the Centre include primary intracranial tumours such as ependymomas, meningeomas, neurinomas and haemangioblastoma, secondary intracranial tumours and some recurring tumours, spinal and paraspinal tumours, lung and liver tumours.

Dr Xavier Montarbon
Gynaecological cancer
Head and neck
Brachytherapy

Dr Isabelle Martel Lafay
Lung cancer
Gastrointestinal cancer

MHL (Medilux Healthcare Ltd.) promotes individual hospitals or hospital groups which we believe offer high standards of care. We provide you with general information and details of how to make contact with the centre, but we shall not be responsible for the quality of any diagnosis or treatment given or for the failure to diagnose or treat any condition. We cannot advise or enter into correspondence about individual cases and we do not arrange or facilitate treatments.

Important note to all patients

Surgery

The Department of Surgery treats adult patients with breast, oral or digestive tract cancers, or with liver or lung metastases, or skin or dental disorders. After multidisciplinary evaluation of their tumour, children are referred to another hospital for surgery. Whenever possible, conservative surgical treatment is preferred in order to maintain organ functions and reconstructive plastic surgery is offered.

Over 3,000 surgical procedures are performed each year, with more than 2,300 patients hospitalised in one of the three surgery wards. New and innovative techniques are used, including intraperitoneal thermal surgery, liver and lung cryosurgery, isolated-limb chemotherapy, as well as sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer patients.

Medical oncology

Patients referred to the Department of Medical Oncology receive the latest treatments in the field of chemotherapy, targeted drugs, hormone or endocrine therapy and cell therapy. Comprehensive care is available for a wide range of cancers: lung or gastrointestinal tumours, gynaecologic or urologic cancers, brain tumours, melanoma and lymphoma, as well as other rare tumours such as thyroid cancer, sarcoma and osteosarcoma.

Travelling to Centre Léon-Bérard in Lyon

Lyon is also well served with motorway connections to Paris, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Geneva, Turin, Marseille, Barcelona, Santander and beyond.

Lyon transport and visitor information

Patients applying to Centre Léon-Bérard are automatically assessed by a multi-disciplinary panel for CyberKnife, Synergy, conventional radiotherapy, brachytherapy, surgery or medical oncology treatments, in order to decide the best treatment or combination of treatments for their particular case.

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Today Centre Léon-Bérard continues research and innovation (basic, applied and clinical research) and education and training in the field of oncology.

Haematology with autologous bone marrow transplant * Lung cancer * Immunology * Head and neck surgery * Gastrointestinal surgery (with expertise on rectal cancer, liver surgery and soft tissue sarcoma surgery) * Breast and plastic surgery * High technology radiotherapy.

The Department is actively involved in research and development, including clinical research projects in collaboration with national and international institutions.

Treatment 'fractions' may be given on consecutive days or with a one day interval between them, depending upon the sensitivity of surrounding tissue.

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