Bring together in one place and federate all the specialties dedicated to women’s health: this is the ambition of the Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital Group, which will soon inaugurate a Women’s Center in Paris.
Endometriosis, fibroids, breast cancer or even cervical diseases. Although these pathologies concern women, there are few places today specially dedicated to their care, from screening and diagnosis to medical and surgical treatment.
But in Paris and Île-de-France, this will soon be the case. On the occasion of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, which takes place this Tuesday, May 28, the Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital Group (GHPSJ) has just announced the creation of the Women’s Center. The ambition of such a place? “Bring together the services dedicated to the management of these specific pathologies and the gynecological surgery service, to offer patients a fluid personalized care pathway”, explains the hospital group.
A service dedicated to endometriosis
This transversal organization will be dedicated to the detection and treatment of various female pathologies: endometriosis, fibroids, genital prolapse and incontinence.
All these gynecological pathologies are treated by “specialists experienced in new technologies whose aim is to provide each patient with therapy adapted to her case by systematically favoring the least invasive procedure”.
In addition to the creation of a fibroid center and another for perineology, the opening of an endometriosis center should be noted. This disease, which affects 15% of women of childbearing age, i.e. 4 to 6 million women in France, is still misdiagnosed to this day. As for the women who suffer from it, they often see their pain minimized and rarely taken care of. “It takes an average of seven years to detect endometriosis. This is explained by the fact that the disease is still taboo and that there are still few professionals trained to diagnose it. GHPSJ doctors participated in the 2017 update of the HAS recommendations, for personalized, multidisciplinary and coordinated care”, explains Dr Erick Petit, radiologist and founder of the Endometriosis Center.
A multidisciplinary approach will be favored “in order to be able to offer a personalized therapeutic strategy to each patient, taking into account the functional signs of the disease, its location and the patient’s desire for pregnancy”, specifies the press release. To better support patients, a pain consultation will also be open. They may, in addition to drug treatments, be offered complementary therapies to reduce pain (acupuncture, sophrology, mesotherapy, osteopathy, etc.).
For better management of female cancers
Inaugurated in 2018, the Breast Center bringing together screening and treatment in a dedicated place for proven cases of breast cancer will be an integral part of the Women’s Center of the Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital Group. Based on the initial Radiologist / Surgeon duo and giving pride of place to multidisciplinarity, the Breast Center aims to offer patients a better quality of life, but also to offer them the most precise and personalized care possible.
As such, the Breast Center can rely on state-of-the-art technologies. In addition to ultrasound, digital mammography, tomosynthesis (3D acquisition) and MRI, the center has invested in new magnetic medical devices to detect the sentinel lymph node (Sienna+™) and identify non-palpable breast lesions (Magseed ®). “The use of these two types of markers allows for a radioactivity-free approach, with minimal invasiveness and considerable stress reduction.”
The Women’s Center will also be able to rely on precision robotics in the treatment of endometrial and cervical cancers. The patients treated there will be able to benefit from robot-assisted gynecological interventions, performed by specialists in new techniques of minimally invasive surgery.
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