Hospital La Tour

Clinic details

Clinic contact person

  • Dr. Angela Pugliesi Rinaldi, Oncologist
  • cabinet.oncologie@latour.ch

Description

In all, Hospital La Tour has 145 private and shared rooms. The hospital provides multidisciplinary, personalized care centered around innovative and effective treatment options. The team is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of all types of cancer affecting adults. The team works closely with  various specialists to ensure the care and treatment the patients need, including:

- conventional cancer treatments: chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery;

- long-term follow-up;

- nutritional care;

- support and guidance to maintain fitness or return to fitness;

- counselling;

- pain management;

- care for elderly patients;

- palliative care.    

Patient cases are reviewed by a multidisciplinary board able to make the most appropriate decisions in terms of patients’ treatment. The multidisciplinary team usually includes the following medical professionals: senior consultant in oncology and geriatric oncology, hematologist, specialist nurses in oncology and palliative care, nuclear medicine specialist, radiation therapist, director of oncology, nutritionist. Hospital La Tour has a partnership with University Hospital of Geneva and this gives them the possibility to refer and present patient cases to specialist tumor boards within UHG.

Other departments: Allergology, Angiology, Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology & diabetes, ENT, Gastroenterology, Head and neck surgery,  Hypnotherapy, Internal medicine, Interventional radiology, Maternal medicine, Neuropsychology, Psychiatry, The Pain Therapy Clinic.

Clinic additional information

Near the hospital, you can stay at one of the following hotels:

- Hôtel Première Classe Geneva - Airport - Prévessin, located at ZAC du Clos Magny, Route du Nant, Postal code: 01280, price 230 lei / night, phone number +33.45.040.95.95;

- The Ibis Budget Saint-Genis-Pouilly Genève Hotel, located at Rue Henri De France Technoparc Du Pays De Gex 40, Postal code: 01630, price 290 lei / night, phone number +33.89.270.02.27.

Clinic specialization

  • Oncology for adults

Clinic transport

The nearest airport to Meyrin is Geneva International Airport, 6 km from the city center. From Geneva to Meyrin you can reach by tram:

- From the airport you can take tram no. 57, which runs on the route Aéroport - Gare Vernier - Meyrin;

- You can also use tram no. 18, which runs on the route Berney - CERN, or tram Y, which runs on the route Ferney-Voltaire-Mairie - Val-Thoiry, Bachet-de-Pesay - CERN.

You can also use: Line 56 TPG Aéroport - Hôpital de La Tour; Line 68 TPG Blandonnet - Thoiry-Centre commercial; Line 71 TPG Satigny-Gare - Hôpital de La Tour.