An alternative to surgery

Surgical radiology is a diagnostic and therapeutic method called “mini-invasive”. It enables access to a deep seated tumour target by using natural pathways (urinary tract, digestive tract…) or the vascular network (arteries or veins) or by choosing a short route and without risk through an organ (liver for example).

Hormone therapy

The multiplication of certain types of malignant cells is hormone-dependent. This applies particularly to breast and prostate cancer.    
Hormone therapy works by blocking the body’s own hormones to prevent them from stimulating the cancer.   
With breast cancer, oestrogens are blocked and, in the case of prostate cancer, androgens are blocked.  

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy stimulates the body’s normal defence mechanisms, so that it can use the immune system to fight the malignant process and destroy the tumour.
   
Malignant tumours in man are not greatly immunogenic. That is to say that they are not generally recognised as foreign by the body, so that they are tolerated and can grow. It is, therefore, necessary to stimulate body defence mechanisms by means of various agents, such as interferon and interleukin and other immunotherapeutic agents which are in the course of development.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy refers to drug treatments which aim to destroy cancer cells by non-specific mechanisms.
Some chemotherapeutic agents can be administered orally, others intravenously, some are hardly toxic and others more so… Similarly, different tumours do not respond to the same chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not, therefore, refer to a drug but to a method of treatment which incorporates a wide range of drugs.    

Les aides à domicile

Différentes interventions sont possibles :

• Aides ménagères : aide au ménage, repassage, courses, préparation du repas.
• Auxiliaire de vie : le professionnel est formé pour aider le patient dans les actes de la vie quotidienne : toilette, aide aux repas, habillage.

Les services de l'aide à la personne sont en plein essor, que ce soit dans le secteur associatif ou le secteur privé à but lucratif.