League against cancer 31: Toulouse Onco Day focuses on social innovation
The Haute-Garonne Cancer League is organizing the “Toulouse Onco Day” conference on February 4, in partnership with La Dépêche du Midi. The opportunity to highlight research projects closely linked to supportive care and the psycho-social impacts of the disease.
Her name ? “Toulouse Onco Day”. His mission ? Put forward very concrete research projects giving pride of place to supportive care, psychosocial issues and, more broadly, social innovation. Organized on February 4 by the Haute-Garonne Cancer League in partnership withvs The Midi Dispatch, this event will be an opportunity to hear and question three speakers. Marie-Ange Léophonte, director of the League against Cancer 31, will discuss the role of the departmental committee, while two Toulouse researchers funded by the association in recent years will provide an update on the progress of their work. They are Florent Puisset, pharmacist at the Toulouse Oncopole and university lecturer-hospital practitioner, which is conducting a study to assess the‘incidence of taking turmeric-based food supplements in patients with breast cancer, and of Geneviève Willson-Plat, pediatrician in pediatric oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Toulouse University Hospital, who is taking part in research on the long-term follow-up of childhood leukemia.
The importance of social innovation
Several major themes will be dropped during the conference: supportive care and social assistance, both during illness and during convalescence; the question of free treatment, which should make it possible to fight against discrimination in access to this support care; support for patients, but also for relatives and carers; social innovation with the Maison de la Ligue, a unique place in France combining temporary accommodation and free support care; and finally, raising companies’ awareness of the return to work of employees affected by cancer. “We want to be at the side of patients throughout their treatments, but also in the remission phase, insists Marie-Ange Léophonte, director of the Haute-Garonne Cancer League. The return to work, in particular, is a crucial step. This is why we work throughout the year to raise companies’ awareness of this issue. We are also contributing solutions to facilitate physical activity for people who have been affected by cancer. And we finance studies aimed at improving their overall support. In this regard, it is imperative for us to base ourselves on university research.” With a single spur: the needs expressed by the patients themselves. “Being on the ground is our strength, believes Marie-Ange Léophonte. We listen to patients. This is what allows us to have our actions evaluated.”
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