“Facing breast cancer can be very scary. Most patients don’t know what will happen to them. My role is to accompany them throughout their care journey,” explains Céline Close, coordination nurse in the senology sector at Chartres hospital.
Between 200 and 250 women are monitored each year at the Louis-Pasteur site for the treatment of breast cancer. Chartres Hospital is the only public institution in Eure-et-Loir to offer comprehensive care to patients who consult for suspected breast cancer, from diagnosis to treatment, up to breast reconstruction if necessary.
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How does the device, baptized “breast reception” work?
This multidisciplinary reception, baptized “breast reception”, brings together health professionals, all senology specialists: radiologists, surgeons, oncologists and nurses. “We no longer do screening. The hospital is on the second level. Patients are referred to us by a radiologist or their general practitioner following a breast problem. Professionals are familiar with this “breast reception” which has been in operation for nearly fifteen years”, explains Doctor Cyrille Faraguet, head of the women’s and children’s unit at Chartres hospital.
Treatment decisions are made as a team. Doctor Patrick Charveriat, oncologist at Louis-Pasteur Hospital, explains:
“We are always smarter together. We can have different opinions. Working as a team allows us to move forward. A mammogram is a very complex examination to read. It’s like photographing a sponge, with lots of hollows. It’s not all white or all black. »
Patrick Charveriat (oncologist at Louis-Pasteur Hospital.)
What are the duties of the nurse coordinator?
The goal of doctors is to provide a quick solution to the disease. “The treatment of breast cancer has become very complex. We have a technical platform that allows us to do everything on site”, assures the head of the pole.
The patients are followed from beginning to end by the same interlocutors.
Chartres Hospital: a device to support patients with breast cancer
The coordinating nurse plays a central role in this system, both with the medical team and with the patients. “She knows the protocols perfectly. New therapies have been developed and treatments are increasingly personalized. Among the latest innovations, there are, for example, drug-conjugated antibodies which combine an antibody and chemotherapy in the same molecule”, explains Doctor Patrick Charveriat.
Céline Close worked for almost ten years in the oncology department of the Chartres hospital before becoming a coordinating nurse for the senology sector in 2014. The nurse deciphers:
You have to be experienced. A lot of information is given by the doctor when the cancer is announced. Patients do not necessarily think or dare to ask all the questions that come to mind. I can take it all back with them. I also make the link between caregivers.
Like other departments of the hospital, this one also suffers from a lack of staff, according to the manager. “For the moment, we are holding, but we are at saturation. We are missing at least two oncologists for breast cancer, radiologists and a second coordinating nurse, ”lists Doctor Cyrille Faraguet.
Why is it important to get tested?
To make its specificities better known, the breast reception team has planned to participate in the Pink October campaign, which provides information regarding the disease and in particular makes as many people as possible aware of early detection.
Information stands on the management of breast cancer at Chartres hospital will be set up in the hall of the establishment, Tuesday, October 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
What are the stakes of the Pink October operation for the league once morest cancer of Eure-et-Loir?
“Some of our patients tell me that they regret not having been screened in time. Women do not feel concerned and think that it will not happen to them. Others don’t want to know,” explains Céline Close.
According to Public Health France, the 5-year survival of women with breast cancer has improved over time. It stands at 88%. “Screening does not prevent the disease, but the fact of discovering it early makes it possible to have more moderate care and to increase the chances of recovery”, assures doctor Cyrille Faraguet.
Helen Bonnet
