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Experts

Learning Resources

Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive oncology training through various formats, utilizing professional expertise and international cooperation, with a focus on participative and innovative learning methodologies. Offers a wide range of courses, such as a master's degree in advanced medical skills, oncology nursing, cancer immunotherapy treatments, etc.

Target audience: Healthcare professionals, researchers, and individuals involved in oncology, palliative care, oncology nursing, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Access Information: Information [5].

Trainings: ICO Trainings and Internships

Primary purpose: To provide training opportunities and practical experiences to students and professionals in nursing, nursing assistant, and technician specialties through collaboration agreements with education schools, facilitated by the Teaching Unit at the ICO centers.

Target audience: Students and professionals in the fields of nursing, nursing assistants, and technicians seeking practical training and educational opportunities at the ICO centers.

Acess Information: Information [6].

Classes: ICO Classroom

Primary purpose: To provide healthcare and research professionals, along with management professionals, an opportunity to stay updated on the latest trends, news, research results, and topics related to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Target audience: Healthcare and research professionals.

Acess Information: Information [7].

Courses: E-Oncology

Primary purpose: To provide specialized and up-to-date online training in cancer care through a network of over 200 internationally renowned professionals, with the aim of improving cancer control and patient care outcomes. Offers a wide range of courses, such as master in medical oncology, cervical cancer and HPV program, specialized multidisciplinary training, continuing medical training, training in prevention and epidemiology, nutrition and cancer program, etc.

Target audience: Healthcare professionals and practitioners working in the field of cancer care.

Acess Information: Information [8].

Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods

Diagnostics

Radiology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Machine	Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital)	Yes
Machine	Ultrasound	Yes
Pathology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Cytology laboratory	Yes
Technique	PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)	Yes
Technique	Cytometry	Yes
Technique	Techniques for molecular pathology	Yes
Technique	Cytogenetics	Yes
Pathology: Molecular Tests
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Technique	PIK3CA	Yes
Technique	KRAS	Yes
Technique	BRAF	Yes
Technique	EGFR	Yes
Others
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Technique	Colonoscopy	Yes

Treatment

Surgical Oncology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Specialist	Breast surgery	Yes
Specialist	Digestive surgery	Yes
Specialist	Oncoplastic surgery	Yes
Radiotherapy
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Machine	Linear accelerators	11
Machine	Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT	Yes
Machine	Linear accelerators with IGRT	Yes
Machine	Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS	Yes
Machine	Brachytherapy unit	4	800 (yearly)
Technique	Stereotactic radiotherapy	Yes
Technique	Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT)	Yes
Technique	Total Body Irradiation (TBI)	Yes
Technique	3D conformal radiotherapy	Yes
Technique	Radiosurgery	Yes	165 (yearly)
Technique	Respiratory motion management	Yes
Technique	Adaptive radiotherapy	Yes
Technique	Conventional simulation	Yes
Technique	IMRT radiotherapy planning system	Yes
Machine	Gamma Knife	Yes
Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Transfusion Unit	Yes
Technique	Allogenic stem cell transplants	Yes
Technique	Autologous bone marrow transplants	Yes
Technique	Autologous stem cell transplants	Yes
Specialists
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Specialist	Physician with a specialisation in palliative care	Yes
Specialist	Medical oncologist	Yes
Specialist	Physician specialised in pain treatment	Yes
Specialist	Neurologist	Yes
Specialist	Lung physician	Yes
Specialist	Radiotherapist	Yes
Specialist	Psychologist or Psychotherapist	3
Specialist	Pharmacist	Yes
Specialist	Social worker	4
Specialist	Physiotherapist	2
Specialist	Dietitian	Yes
Others
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	24-hour Oncological Emergency Department	Yes
Technique	Biliary drainage	Yes
Facility	Clinical Trial Center	Yes
Facility	Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit	Yes

Prevention

Screening and Others
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Breast cancer screening program	Yes
Facility	Colorectal cancer screening program	Yes
Facility	Smoking detoxification center	Yes

Quality of Life

Quality of Life
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Supportive care unit	Yes

Cancer-related Patient Associations and Resources

Resource: Citizen Service Unit (UAC)

Primary purpose: To provide accessible, personalized, and barrier-free services to support patients throughout their hospital care process and facilitate their relationship with the institution. Offers a wide range of services, such as intercultural mediation, living with cancer program, resources for the citizen: resources available to social entities and society, citizen participation: satisfaction surveys and patient experience, grief care program and etc.

Information: Information [9].

Resource: Tobacco Control Unit (UCT)

Primary purpose: To conduct research, evaluation, and intervention projects to prevent and control tobacco consumption and exposure to environmental smoke, both locally and internationally, to impact public health.

Information: Information [10].

Facility: Activities

Primary purpose: To educate and support patients, relatives, and the public about the disease, its treatments, and prevention strategies. Offers a wide range of activities, such as workshops on skincare and the use of make-up, art therapy, emotional support with meditation, yoga, music workshop, virtual reality, etc.

Information: Activities at the Hospitalet ICO [11], at Badalona [12] and Girona [13].

Tool: PsicoOncologiaOnline

Primary purpose: Aims to use digital health technologies to reduce the impact of cancer, especially in psycho-oncology, through research and innovation.

Information: Information [14].

Tool: ICO Electronic Headquarters

Primary purpose: To provide citizens with access to information, services, and electronic procedures of the organization, allowing them to carry out various tasks and inquiries without the need to visit the physical offices in person, using an accepted digital certificate for identification and access.

Information: Information [15].

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 '''Primary purpose:''' To provide healthcare and research professionals, along with management professionals, an opportunity to stay updated on the latest trends, news, research results, and topics related to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.