Neuro-oncology unit

You will be offered an initial consultation with an oncologist or a radiotherapist to answer any questions that you may have and so the stages of treatment may be explained to you.

You will be given a contact file to help you keep in contact with your care providers at the Eugène Marquis Centre and at home (your general practitioner, independents nurse, physiotherapist, speech therapist, etc.). You should bring it with you every time you come to the Eugène Marquis Centre.

Support consultations

If you need to undergo chemotherapy, you will be offered a support consultation with the neuro-oncology nurse to assess your needs and suggest suitable material and human support.

Consultation with a pharmacist

You will also have a consultation with one of our pharmacists to explain the way in which your treatment will work and the side effects that it may have and to make sure that there will be no interactions between your usual medications and the cancer treatment.

Telephone follow-up

Once you have started chemotherapy, the neuro-oncology nurse will call you to check how you are responding to the treatment and to answer any questions you may have. You will receive regular calls for the first three months of treatment.

• The first workshop provides information about the disease, the symptoms, the treatments and what to do in an emergency. Carers are given a file to store all the information provided.
• The second workshop identifies the human, material and hospital resources available to carers. A physiotherapist explains a few useful ergonomic movements for around the house.
• During the third workshop, the carers come together to talk about their lived experiences, the challenges faced and their lives in general. As everyone is unique, all carers experience their loved one’s illness in a different way.

Therapeutic patient education workshops are currently being developed.