Presentation of the Centre
Centre Georges-François Leclerc (CGFL), a cancer care and research center at the forefront of innovation and dedicated to patients founded in 1967, is the only health facility exclusively dedicated to oncology for the Burgundy Franche-Comté region. The CGFL is a member of UNICANCER, which gathers the 18 French Cancer Centers.
Each year, the CGFL provides to 23,000 patients and their families a personalized medicine without excess to be paid and it has all the services and equipment for screening, diagnosis, outpatient treatment or hospitalization and its alternatives (day care, home care).
Main Research Activities
The CGFL develops a voluntarist policy of support for research activities basic, transfer and clinical research. It has a Clinical Research Center labeled by the Ministry of Health and is the only facility in the Grand Est of France to have an early phase research unit labeled CLIP² by the National Cancer Institute (INCa).
The research activities of the institution are organized around three structuring axes concerning personalized medicine in oncology (immunology, genomics, early phases), functional and molecular imaging, radiotherapy and radiobiology.
Core Facilities
6 operating rooms,
2 PET Scans including a total body PET 3 gamma cameras,
5 radiotherapy accelerators (including one coupled to an MRI), 1 Intrabeam® irradiation system dedicated to intraoperative radiotherapy,
1 MRI, 2 scanners, 1 mammotome, 2 mammographs,
6 NGS gene sequencers including 1 high-speed (and a third being acquired), 1 cell search cell sorter,
1 preclinical multimodal imaging platform (Spect, PET scan, PET-MRI, optical imager).
Education
Associate member of the “Université Bourgogne Europe” the CGFL contributes actively to the university and postgraduate education of doctors and specialists in the disciplines involved in oncology, as well as to paramedical professional training.