Draft:Centre François-Baclesse

The Centre François Baclesse is one of the twenty regional cancer treatment centers in France, located in Caen.

History
The cancer center (CAC) was created on September 5, 1925 within the grounds of Clemenceau Hospital, occupying pavilion. Pavilion 2, in a state of disrepair after World War II, was restored in 1952.

In 1960, services for telecobalt therapy and radioisotopes were inaugurated. A cobalt bomb was temporarily installed in the former underground icehouse in the park of the hospice Saint-Louis (now Parc Michel-d'Ornano). The center proved inadequate for modern medical needs, and the construction of a new center was decided.

The new building was constructed between 1970 and 1973 by Henry Bernard and Pierre Auvray on the hospital plateau north of Caen (now campus 5) in the process of being constituted, with the construction of the Caen University Hospital by Henry Bernard, started in 1970 and completed in 1975. The new hospital opened in 1973, but the official inauguration took place on February 23, 1975 in the presence of the Minister of Health, Simone Veil. Since its relocation, the center has been named after François Baclesse (April 26, 1896 – November 11, 1967), a scientist and former student of Marie Curie and Claudius Regaud at the Radium Institute in Paris who contributed to the development of modern clinical radiotherapy.

Activities
The center participates in research activities, notably through its INSERM unit U1086 - ANTICIPE, its clinical research unit, and the Data Processing Center (CTD) of the Cancéropôle Nord-Ouest.