The multidisciplinary centres
Prevention of Cancers and Screening Clinic
Prevention and screening: why?
Nowadays, not all cancers can be avoided. Nevertheless, you can take action against cancer.
Prevention enables the risk of cancer to be reduced by about 30%.
Screening allows the detection of a series of cancers, often at an early stage, and often even before any symptoms are apparent.
Treatments are more effective then, and the chances of a cure are greater.
For certains cancers, screening also makes it possible to identify pre-cancerous cells, which can be treated in order to shop the development of cancer.
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Cancer prevention and screening Clinic: your consultation
The consultation establishes a risk profile and a series of examinations and specialist consultations to be recommended.
Our specific characteristics
- Consultation open to anyone, with or without a special cancer risk factor.
- High-quality, multidisciplinary personalised prevention and screening plan based on your risk profile.
- Organisation of a 'screening circuit' consisting of a series of examinations and specialist consultations.
- The results are centralised and forwarded to your attending physician(s).
- Objectives of afforability and transparency of costs.
In practice
1) First 'cancer screening' consultation:
- Standardised medical questionnaire.
- Medical history: personal and family medical history.
- Clinical examinations.
- Recommendations based on the risk profile.
- Duration of the consultation: 1 hour.
2) Screening circuit:
- Specialist consultations.
- Additional examinations.
- This circuit may take 1 to 2 days.
3) Second 'cancer screening' consultation:
- Announcement of the results. Depending on the results:
- Prevention advice.
- Recommendations for follow-up or treatment.
- Duration of the consultation: 1 hour.
4) The results are forwarded to the medical doctor(s) of your choice.
Practical information
Making an appointment - Request for information
Secretariat: 02/434.81.15
e-mail: depistage.cancer@chirec.be
Dr Laurence Gordower - Medical doctor coordinating the Cancer Prevention & Screening Clinic.
Nurse coordinator: Mrs. Audrey GILLIS - 02/434.17.45
Consultations
- Delta Hospital - 1st floor
- Braine-l'Alleud Hospital - Building D / Ground floor
12 prevention recommendations *
| Do not smoke or consume any other form of tobacco. |
| Avoid passive exposure to tobacco, particularly in your workplace. |
| Keep your weight stable. |
| Engage in regular physical activity and avoid sitting down for too long. |
| Eat healthy. |
| Limit your consumption of alcohol. |
| Avoid excessive exposure to the sun, use sunscreen and avoid using sunbeds. |
| Protect yourself from carcinogens by following the health and safety instructions in your workplace. |
| Check your exposure to radon gas emissions at home, and take action if necessary. |
| For women: breastfeed if possible. |
| Vaccinate your children against hepatitis B (newborns) and against the human papilloma virus (HPV) (teenage girls). |
Take part in organised programmes for screening of at least these 3 forms of cancer:
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