The Léon Bérard Center (CLB) is one of the 18 French cancer centers, affiliated with the Unicancer network. It has three missions 100% dedicated to oncology: care, research and teaching and offers all cancer diagnoses and treatments on a single site. It is a private, non-profit institution.
It is recognized as a regional, national and international reference center for cancerology.
Certifications / Labels
Federation
- Unicancer
Partner structures
OECI Organisation of European Cancer Institutes
Unicancer, Institut Curie, Gustave Roussy
Andrée Rosemon Hospital Center in Cayenne - French Guyana
Lyon University Hospital
Les Massues rehabilitation medico-surgical center
Pilot of the 3C Rhodanien network for Lyon: Protestant Infirmary, Centre hospitalier Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc, Centre Hospitalier Villefranche-sur-Saône
ONCO-AURA regional network
Management of foreign patients
A dedicated service: the International Patients Office, made up of 3 specialist doctors, 1 coordinating nurse, 1 secretary.
Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (French time): + 33 (0) 4 69 85 62 20
Average time between filing a file and responding
3 days - Please note that for oncology, the multidisciplinary consultation meeting may extend the delay
List of services
- Cafeteria
- TV channels or newspapers in foreign language
- Single bedroom
- Hairdresser
- A/C
- Safe
- Healthcare coordinator
- Beautician
- Place of meditation
- Companion bed
- Home for non-hospitalized patients and family
- Adapted meal
- Family welcome lounge
- Wifi
- Remote surveillance
Support for people with disabilities
Annual activity volume
33 000 stays (outpatient hospitalization)
12 000 stays (conventional hospitalization)
95 000 consultations
89 000 chemotherapy sessions per year
53 000 radiotherapy sessions per year
Diagnostic medical imaging
- Doppler echo
- MRI
- Diagnostic scanner
- Interventional scanner
- Breast Biopsy System
- Conventional radiology table
- Interventional radiology table
Interventional radiology procedures
- Biopsies under imaging control
- Bone consolidation and screwing
- Percutaneous tumor destruction
- Drainages and endocanal procedures
- Installation of venous access
- Supportive care and pain treatment
Nuclear medicine
- PET Camera
- Gamma Camera
- Iratherapy
- Metabolic radiotherapy
Radiotherapy
- Radio surgery
- Radiotherapy with respiratory synchronization
- 3D conformal radiotherapy
- Contact radiotherapy
- Intensity modulated radiotherapy
- Intraoperative radiotherapy
- Stereotaxic radiation therapy
- Tomotherapy
- Pulsed flow brachytherapy
- High Speed brachytherapy
- Permanent implant brachytherapy
Radiosurgery
- Gamma Knife
Surgery
- 3D laparoscopy
The Léon Bérard Cancer Center offers on a single site all the diagnostic examinations, treatments and monitoring of the person during and after the disease, with an emphasis on supportive care and comprehensive support of the patient. It also has access to innovation with one of the largest cancer research centers in Europe and highly developed clinical research.
Description of support or specific features
Unique expertise in several specialties: rare cancers (sarcomas, rare gynecological tumors, complex digestive tumors), pediatric oncology and radiotherapy
Latest generation equipment for diagnosis and treatment: MRI, scanner, 100% digital PET Scan, Cyberknife ©, interventional radiology, etc.
A research center integrated into the site, allowing direct transfer of research to care: 18% of patients are included in one of the 300 trials open for inclusion.
Multidisciplinary consultation meeting
13 meetings: thoracic, ENT, sarcoma diagnosis, hematology, onco-gynecology and rare tumors, management of recourse in gynecology, urology, skin tumors, molecular diagnosis, bone metastasic lesions, digestive system, sarcomas and breast cancer.
Biopathology and oncopharmacology
Is surgery performed?
What kind of surgery?
- Outpatient
- In hospitalization
- Minimally invasive
Active patient queue per year
4 100
Number of beds
69 beds for surgery
including 59 private rooms
256 beds for medicine
including 200 private rooms
3 252 stays with surgery per year
5 400 surgeries per year
250 medical specialists
Clinical research activities in the field
Cross-cutting activities
- Addictology / Tobacco
- Paramedical consultations
- Therapeutic education
- Patient information: Meeting and Information Space (ERI®)
- Onco-rheumatology
- Oncogeriatrics
- Oncosexuality
- Care course
- Wounds and healing
Supportive cares
- Chronic pain structure - Medical consultations
- Chronic pain structure - Medical hypnosis
- Chronic pain structure - Mobile team
- Chronic pain structure - Nursing consultation
- Comfort and well-being - Art therapy
- Comfort and well-being - Hypnosis
- Comfort and well-being - Image consulting
- Comfort and well-being - Sophrology
- Dermography
- Functional rehabilitation - Adapted physical activity
- Functional rehabilitation - Physiotherapy
- Functional rehabilitation - Stomatherapy
- Mobile palliative care team - IDE consultation
- Nutrition - Dietician consultation
- Nutrition - Nutritionist doctor consultation
- Psycho-oncology - Individual consultation
- Social service
- Socio-aesthetic
- Supportive care day and week hospitalization
Pathologies treated
Digestive Cancers
- Anal cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Small intestine cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Bile duct cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Liver cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Cancer of the peritoneum
- Rectal cancer
- Retroperitoneum sarcoma
- Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)
Haematological cancers
- Acute leukaemias
- Chronic leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Hodgkin's disease
- Myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
Cancers of the male reproductive system
- Cancer of the penis
- Testicular cancer
Urological cancers
- Prostate cancer
- Bladder and urinary tract cancer
- Kidney cancer
Central nervous system tumors
- Glioma and glioblastoma
- Pediatric brain tumor
- Brain germ cell tumor
- Medullary tumors of the central nervous system
Thoracic tumors
- Cancer of the pleura
- Lung cancer
- Mediastinal tumor
- Pulmonary metastasis
- Thoracic sarcoma
- Thynoma
Cancers of the ENT sphere
- Cancers of the nasal and sinus cavities
- Cancers of the Upper Digestive Airway (VADS): oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx and larynx
- Cavum / nasopharyngeal cancer
- Skin cancer of the face and neck
Thyroid and parathyroid cancer
Breast cancer
- Breast cancer
- Breast sarcoma
Gynecological cancers
- Endometrial cancer
- Vulvar cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Cancer of the uterine body
- Uterine sarcoma
Skin tumors
- Carcinoma
- Melanoma
- Cutaneous sarcoma
- Eyeball tumor
Osteoarticular tumors
- Chondrosarcoma
- Chordoma
- Bone metastasis
- Osteosarcoma
- Ewing's sarcoma
- Uterine sarcoma
- Tumor of the pelvis and long bones
- Tumor of the skull and base of the skull
- Spine tumor
Pediatric cancers
Cancers in adolescents and young adults
Rare tumors
Oncogenetics
Treatments performed
- 3D conformal radiotherapy
- Breast cancer surgery
- Breast reconstruction surgery
- Conventional intravenous chemotherapy
- High dose-rate brachytherapy
- Immunotherapy
- Intensity modulated radiotherapy
- Intensive chemotherapy with support of hematopoietic stem cells (autograft)
- Intra-Peritoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy
- Intra-Thoracic Hyperthermic Chemotherapy
- Intraoperative radiotherapy
- Iratherapy with iodine
- Oral chemotherapy
- Permanent implant brachytherapy
- Pulsed flow brachytherapy
- Radio surgery
- Radiotherapy with respiratory synchronization
- Reconstructive surgery of the face and neck
- Skin tumor surgery
- Stereotactic radiation therapy
- Surgery for cancer of the face and neck
- Surgery for cancers of the male reproductive system
- Surgery for digestive cancers
- Surgery for gynecological cancers
- Surgery for osteoarticular tumors
- Surgery for thoracic tumors
- Surgery for thyroid and parathyroid cancers
- Surgery for urological cancers
- Surgery of sarcomas and soft and connective tissues
- Targeted therapies
- Tomotherapy
- Transfusions
Contact information
Address
Centre Léon Bérard - 28 rue Laennec - 69008 Lyon
Metro D: Grange Blanche station
Tramway T2: Grange Blanche station
Bus: Lines C22 / 24: Centre Léon Bérard stop
Lines C8 / C13 / C16 / C22 / C26 / 24: Grange Blanche stop
Phone number
+33 (0)4 69 85 62 20
The nearest big city is Lyon
The nearest airport is Aéroport de Lyon (Lyon-Saint Exupéry)