Cancer Care:

Among the six main hospitals making up the Cancer Institute AP-HP in the North, four have dedicated interventional radiology (IR) teams, thereby covering the whole territory for cancer patient care. These four teams are essentially subspecialized, as follows: Beaujon in digestive IR (liver, biliary duct), Bichat in lung and vascular procedures, St-Louis in breast cancer, and Lariboisière in bone procedures. All teams employ intravascular devices for systemic treatments. The most varied techniques are implemented in our facilities, including vascular embolization, vascular prosthesis and stenting, tumor ablation, computed tomography- and ultrasound-guided biopsies, bone cementoplasty, cryoablation, local intratumoral injection therapies (viral vectors, immunotherapy, chimeric antigen receptor T-cells [CAR-T], cytotoxics, etc.), etc. Our teams thus perform more than 7,000 interventional procedures for various solid cancers and hematological malignancies, with 24/7 on-site availability of IR experts. Our specialty strives to carry out such highly technical procedures on an outpatient basis, even if a short general anesthesia is needed in close collaboration with the anesthesia department.