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=== Screening: Cancer prevention and screening ===

'''Primary purpose:''' To explain and guide patients through Institut Bordet’s Cancer Prevention and Screening Centre, including how risk is assessed, what the visit involves, and how to book and prepare for appointments.

'''Contact information:''' [https://www.bordet.be/en/screening-cancer Click here to access].

=== Diagnostics ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Radiology !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Machine || CT scanners || 3 || 
|-
| Machine || MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) || yes  || 
|-
| Machine || Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) || yes || digital
|-
| Machine || Ultrasound || yes  || 
|-
| Machine || High-intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) || yes  || 
|-
| Machine || Gamma Camera || yes || 
|-
| Technique || MRI-guided biopsy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Ultrasound-Guided Transcutaneous Tru-Cut Biopsy (USGTCB) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Stereostatic biopsy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Ultrasound guided biopsy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || EBUS-TBNA || yes || 
|-
| Technique || CT guided biopsis || yes || 
|-
| Technique || E/S Fine-needle biopsy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Angiography || yes || 
|-
! Nuclear Medicine !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Machine || Pet Scan || yes || 
|-
| Machine || PET CT || yes || 
|-
| Machine || PET/MRI || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Radionuclide treatment facilities || yes || 
|-
| Machine || SPECT || yes || 
|-
| Machine || SPECT CT || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Sentinel node scintigraphy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Bone scintigraphy || yes || 
|-
! Pathology !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Facility || Cytology laboratory || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Histopathology laboratory || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Cytometry || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Liquid biopsy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Immunofluorescence techniques || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Histochemistry || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Techniques for molecular pathology || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Cytogenetics || yes || 
|-
! Pathology: Molecular Tests !!  !!  !!
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Technique || PGR || yes || 
|-
| Technique || KI-67 || yes || 
|-
| Technique || PDL1 || yes || 
|-
| Technique || PI3KCA || yes || 
|-
| Technique || ER || yes || 
|-
| Technique || BRAF || yes || 
|-
| Technique || NTRK || yes || 
|-
| Technique || RET || yes || 
|-
| Technique || MET || yes || 
|-
| Technique || COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PANELS || yes || 
|-
| Technique || KRAS || yes || 
|-
| Technique || EGFR || yes || 
|-
| Technique || ALK || yes || 
|-
| Technique || ROS || yes || 
|-
| Technique || HER2 status || yes || 
|-
! Others!!  !!  !!
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Technique || Bronchoscopy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Colonoscopy || yes || 
|-
|}

=== Treatment ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Surgical Oncology !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Specialist || Breast surgery || 5 || 
|-
| Specialist || Urological surgery || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Thoracic surgery || 6 || 
|-
| Specialist || Digestive surgery || 6 || 
|-
| Specialist || Gynaecological surgery || 5 || 
|-
| Specialist || Head and neck surgery || 6 || 
|-
| Specialist || Soft tissue surgery || 4 || 
|-
| Specialist || Orthopaedic surgery || 2 || 
|-
| Specialist || Oncoplastic surgery || 4 || 
|-
| Specialist || ENT surgery || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Sarcoma surgery || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Video-assisted thoracoscopy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Isolated Limb Hyperthermic Perfusion || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Robotic surgery || yes || 
|-
! Radiotherapy !!  !!  !!  
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Machine || Linear accelerators || yes || 
|-
| Machine || Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT || 4 || 
|-
| Machine || Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Proton/carbon facilities || yes || 
|-
| Machine || Dedicated SRS units || yes || 
|-
| Machine || Cobalt Units || yes || 
|-
| Machine || Brachytherapy unit || 2 || (low dose -LDR- and high dose -HDR- units)
|-
| Technique || Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia ( HIPEC) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Stereotactic radiotherapy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Locoregional chemotherapy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Chemoembolization || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Therma Ablation (with radiofrequency or microwave) || yes || microwave
|-
| Technique || Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia ( HIPEC)  || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Total Body Irradiation (TBI) || yes || 
|-
| Technique || 3D conformal radiotherapy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Radiosurgery || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Proton therapy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Respiratory motion management || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Adaptive radiotherapy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Conventional simulation || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Virtual simulation for treatment planning || yes || 
|-
| Technique || CT planning || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Magnetic resonance for radiotherapy treatment planning || yes || 
|-
| Technique || PET CT treatment planning || yes || 
|-
| Machine || Gamma Knife || yes || 
|-
| Machine || CyberKnife || yes || 
|-
| Machine || TomoTherapy Machines || yes || 
|-
! Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants !!  !!  !!  
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Facility || Transfusion Unit || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Bone marrow / stem cell bank || 3 || 
|-
| Facility || Cellular therapy unit with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Number of laminar flow rooms || 6 || 
|-
| Facility || Number of sterile rooms || 12 || 
|-
| Machine || Cytopheresis machine || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Quality Vigilance System || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Allogenic stem cell transplants || yes || 35
|-
| Technique || Autologous bone marrow transplants || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Autologous stem cell transplants || yes || 35
|-
! Specialists !!  !!  !!  
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Specialist || Physician with a specialisation in palliative care || 1 || 
|-
| Specialist || Medical oncologist || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Nurse with a specialisation/certification in palliative care || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Nurse with a specialisation/certification in oncology || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Physician specialised in pain treatment || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Lung physician || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Radiotherapist || 10 || 
|-
| Specialist || Psychologist or Psychotherapist || 15 || 
|-
| Specialist || Psychiatrist || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Pharmacist || 15 || 
|-
| Specialist || Social worker || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Spiritual care || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Physiotherapist || yes || 
|-
| Specialist || Dietitian || 6 || 
|-
! Others !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Facility || 24-hour Oncological Emergency Department || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Interventional Endoscopy || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Embolization with microparticles || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Clinical Trial Center || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit || yes || 
|-
| Technique || Peritoneal drainage || yes || 
|}

=== Prevention ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Others !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Facility || Lung cancer screening program || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Breast cancer screening program || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Colorectal cancer screening program || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Smoking detoxification center || yes || 
|}

=== Quality of Life ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Others !!  !!  !! 
|-
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Number''' || '''Uses per year'''
|-
| Facility || Supportive care unit || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Phone/mail contact service || yes || 
|-
| Facility || Survivorship program || yes || 
|}
<span style="display:none">isScreening</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C00-D48: All neoplasms</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C00-C97: All cancer types</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C00-C14: Mouth/throat cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C15-C26: Digestive system cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C30-C39: Lung/chest cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C40-C41: Bone cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C43-C44: Skin cancers/melanoma</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C45-C49: Soft tissue cancer</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C50: Breast cancer</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C51-C58: Female genitalia cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C60-C63: Male genitalia cancer</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C64-C68: Urinary system cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C69-C72: Eye and brain cancer</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C73-C75: Thyroid and other gland cancers</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C76-C80: Cancers of unknown or unspecified areas</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C81-C96: Cancers of the blood and immune system</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::C97-C97: Cancers in multiple locations from the start</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::D00-D09: Early-stage cancers not yet spread</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::D10-D36: Benign tumour</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::D37-D48: Growths of uncertain nature</span>
<span style="display:none">hasCancerType::unknown</span>