Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in Children's Hospital of Nancy, France : Contribution to the Organization of Clinical Oncology

Abstract

Before 1970, fewer than 20 patients were admitted yearly in the two departments of general pediatrics of the Hospital of Nancy, the main town of the Lorraine region in the east of France (2,306,462 inhabitants). Most of the patients were treated according to the feelings of the physicians or were sent to the department of O. Schweisguth in Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif) for solid tumors and of J. Bernard in St-Louis Hospital (Paris) in case of leukemias. Their cure rate was less than 25%.

Key Words:

• cancer
• child
• health care