From the Model to the Adaptation of a Therapeutic Education Program (TEP) in Cancer Research

The use of oral targeted therapies draws new medical management but also new practices for the patients (compliance), their family and the healthcare professionals \[1,2\]. These therapies have sometimes heavy toxicity: side effects to identify, to treat, and for the patient to learn to manage. This situation underlines the importance of a therapeutic education to accompany this "learning" \[3\]. Nevertheless, in France, the therapeutic educational programs, built according to the "standards" of the therapeutic education (TE), are still very rare in cancer research \[4\]. In May 2012, a therapeutic educational program for these patients has been developed in the oncology department of the Teaching Hospital of Bordeaux through a multidisciplinary team. This program, dedicated to metastatic renal cancer patients treated by oral targeted therapies, becomes here an object of research: MODAP (action-research).