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=== Screening: Cancer prevention and screening === | |||
'''Primary purpose:''' Provides access to imaging services used for cancer screening and early detection, including mammography and virtual colonoscopy. | |||
'''Contact information:''' [https://www.irccs.com/it/radiodiagnostica Click here to access]. | |||
=== Diagnostics === | === Diagnostics === | ||
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! Radiology !! !! !! | ! Radiology !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name'''|| '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |||
| Machine || CT scanners || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) || yes || 3500 (yearly) | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Digitalised imaging (RIS) || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| 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 || Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || CT guided biopsis || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || E/S Fine-needle biopsy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Angiography || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Nuclear Medicine !! !! !! | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Machine || Pet Scan || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Machine || PET CT || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Machine || | | Machine || PET/MRI || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Facility || Radionuclide treatment facilities || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Sentinel node scintigraphy || | | Technique || Sentinel node scintigraphy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Bone scintigraphy || | | Technique || Bone scintigraphy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Pathology !! !! !! | ! Pathology !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''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''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || PGR || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || KI-67 || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || PDL1 || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || PI3KCA || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || ER || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || KRAS || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || BRAF || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || NTRK || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || RET || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || MET || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || EGFR || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || ALK || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || ROS || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || HER2 status || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PANELS || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Others !! !! !! | |||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || Bronchoscopy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Colposcopy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Colonoscopy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Vulvoscopy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Hysteroscopy || | | Technique || Hysteroscopy || yes || | ||
|} | |} | ||
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! Surgical Oncology !! !! !! | ! Surgical Oncology !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Breast surgery || 7 || | | Specialist || Breast surgery || 7 || 559 (yearly) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Urological surgery || 12 || | | Specialist || Urological surgery || 12 || | ||
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| Specialist || Thoracic surgery || 4 || | | Specialist || Thoracic surgery || 4 || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Digestive surgery || | | Specialist || Digestive surgery || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Gynaecological surgery || 4 || | | Specialist || Gynaecological surgery || 4 || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Head and neck surgery || | | Specialist || Head and neck surgery || yes || | ||
|- | |||
| Specialist || Soft tissue surgery || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Oncoplastic surgery || 2 || | | Specialist || Oncoplastic surgery || 2 || | ||
|- | |||
| Specialist || Paediatric surgery || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || ENT surgery || 4 || | | Specialist || ENT surgery || 4 || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Specialist || Sarcoma surgery || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Robotic surgery || | | Technique || Video-assisted thoracoscopy || yes || | ||
|- | |||
| Technique || Robotic surgery || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Radiotherapy !! !! !! | ! Radiotherapy !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |||
| Machine || Linear accelerators || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Linear accelerators with IGRT || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Brachytherapy unit || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia (HIPEC) || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Stereotactic radiotherapy || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || Chemoembolization || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || Thermal ablation (with radiofrequency or microwave) || yes || radiofrequency | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || Total Body Irradiation (TBI) || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Technique || 3D conformal radiotherapy || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Radiosurgery || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Respiratory motion management || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Conventional simulation || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || Virtual simulation for treatment planning || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || CT planning || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || | | Technique || IMRT radiotherapy planning system || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || CT planning || | | Technique || PET CT treatment planning || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Machine || TomoTherapy Machines || | | Machine || TomoTherapy Machines || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants !! !! !! | ! Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |||
| Facility || Transfusion Unit || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Cellular therapy unit with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Machine || Cytopheresis machine || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Quality Vigilance System || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Allogenic stem cell transplants || | | Technique || Allogenic stem cell transplants || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Autologous bone marrow transplants || | | Technique || Autologous bone marrow transplants || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Technique || Autologous stem cell transplants || | | Technique || Autologous stem cell transplants || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Specialists !! !! !! | ! Specialists !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || ''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Physician with a specialisation in palliative care || | | Specialist || Physician with a specialisation in palliative care || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Medical oncologist || 6 || | | Specialist || Medical oncologist || 6 || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Physician specialised in pain treatment || | | Specialist || Physician specialised in pain treatment || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Lung physician || 4 || | | Specialist || Lung physician || 4 || | ||
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| Specialist || Psychologist or Psychotherapist || 1 || | | Specialist || Psychologist or Psychotherapist || 1 || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Pharmacist || | | Specialist || Pharmacist || yes || | ||
|- | |||
| Specialist || Social worker || yes || | |||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || | | Specialist || Spiritual care || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Physiotherapist || | | Specialist || Physiotherapist || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Specialist || Dietitian || | | Specialist || Dietitian || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Others !! !! !! | ! Others !! !! !! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Type''' || '''Name'''|| '''Availibility''' || '''Uses per year''' | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availability''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |||
| Technique || Interventional Endoscopy || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Biliary drainage || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Clinical Trial Center || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Peritoneal drainage || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Technique || Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Pressurized Air Flow (PIPAC) || yes || | |||
|} | |||
=== Prevention === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Screening and Others !! !! !! | |||
|- | |||
| '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availibility''' || '''Uses per year''' | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Lung cancer screening program || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Breast cancer screening program || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Cervical cancer screening program || yes || | |||
|- | |||
| Facility || Colorectal cancer screening program || yes || | |||
|} | |||
=== Quality of Life === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Quality of Life !! !! !! | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availibility''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Facility || Supportive care unit || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Facility || | | Facility || Phone/mail contact service || yes || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Facility || | | Facility || Survivorship program || yes || | ||
|} | |||
=== Palliative Care === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Palliative Care !! !! !! | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | '''Type''' || '''Name''' || '''Availibility''' || '''Uses per year''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | Facility || Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) || yes || | ||
|} | |} | ||
<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> | |||
<span style="display:none">isScreening</span> | |||
Latest revision as of 12:42, 12 December 2025
Go back to Candiolo Cancer Institute page
Click here for a Glossary of terms used in this page
Screening: Cancer prevention and screening[edit | edit source]
Primary purpose: Provides access to imaging services used for cancer screening and early detection, including mammography and virtual colonoscopy.
Contact information: Click here to access.
Diagnostics[edit | edit source]
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | yes | |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | yes | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | yes | 3500 (yearly) |
| Machine | Digitalised imaging (RIS) | yes | |
| 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 | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) | yes | |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | yes | |
| Technique | E/S Fine-needle biopsy | yes | |
| Technique | Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) | yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | yes | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | yes | |
| Facility | Radionuclide treatment facilities | yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | 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 | Availability | Uses per year |
| Technique | PGR | yes | |
| Technique | KI-67 | yes | |
| Technique | PDL1 | yes | |
| Technique | PI3KCA | yes | |
| Technique | ER | yes | |
| Technique | KRAS | yes | |
| Technique | BRAF | yes | |
| Technique | NTRK | yes | |
| Technique | RET | yes | |
| Technique | MET | yes | |
| Technique | EGFR | yes | |
| Technique | ALK | yes | |
| Technique | ROS | yes | |
| Technique | HER2 status | yes | |
| Technique | COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PANELS | yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | yes | |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Vulvoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Hysteroscopy | yes |
Treatment[edit | edit source]
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | 7 | 559 (yearly) |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | 12 | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | 4 | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | 4 | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Soft tissue surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | 4 | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | yes | |
| Technique | Video-assisted thoracoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | yes | |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia (HIPEC) | yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | yes | |
| Technique | Thermal ablation (with radiofrequency or microwave) | yes | radiofrequency |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | yes | |
| Technique | 3D conformal radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | yes | |
| Technique | Respiratory motion management | yes | |
| Technique | Conventional simulation | yes | |
| Technique | Virtual simulation for treatment planning | yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | yes | |
| Technique | IMRT radiotherapy planning system | yes | |
| Technique | PET CT treatment planning | yes | |
| Machine | TomoTherapy Machines | yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Facility | Transfusion Unit | yes | |
| Facility | Cellular therapy unit with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) | yes | |
| Machine | Cytopheresis machine | yes | |
| Technique | Quality Vigilance System | yes | |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | yes | |
| Technique | Autologous bone marrow transplants | yes | |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | yes | |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | 6 | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | yes | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | 4 | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | 7 | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | 1 | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | yes | |
| Specialist | Spiritual care | yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availability | Uses per year |
| Technique | Interventional Endoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Biliary drainage | yes | |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | yes | |
| Facility | Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit | yes | |
| Technique | Peritoneal drainage | yes | |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Pressurized Air Flow (PIPAC) | yes |
Prevention[edit | edit source]
| Screening and Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Lung cancer screening program | yes | |
| Facility | Breast cancer screening program | yes | |
| Facility | Cervical cancer screening program | yes | |
| Facility | Colorectal cancer screening program | yes |
Quality of Life[edit | edit source]
| Quality of Life | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Supportive care unit | yes | |
| Facility | Phone/mail contact service | yes | |
| Facility | Survivorship program | yes |
Palliative Care[edit | edit source]
| Palliative Care | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) | yes |