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Trials
Experts
Learning Resources
Trainings: UCT Trainings
Primary purpose: To promote interdisciplinary training for healthcare professionals, organize further education, and provide information events for patients, relatives, and the general public.
Target audience: Healthcare professionals, students, nurses, doctors, scientists, patients and the general public.
Access Information: Information [1].
Events: UCT Events
Primary purpose: To provide information about various types of cancer, and their associated symptoms, and to facilitate connections with self-help groups and UCT partners for patients, relatives, and interested individuals.
Target audience: Patients, relatives and the general public.
Access Information: Information [2].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | 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 (digital) | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Technique | Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | Yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurosurgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | Yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Thermal ablation (with radiofrequency or microwave) | Yes | |
| Technique | Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT) | Yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | Yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | Yes | |
| Machine | CyberKnife | Yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Bone marrow / stem cell bank | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | Yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | Yes | |
| Facility | Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit | Yes |
Palliative Care
| Palliative Care | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) | Yes | |
| Facility | Home palliative care availability | Yes |
Self-help Groups List
Primary purpose: The website provides a list of the active self-help groups in the hospital.
Access Information: Information [3].
Resource: Sports and Exercise Therapy
Primary purpose: Promote physical activity's benefits for cancer patients, offering free courses at all stages of the disease and therapy.
Access Information: Information [4].
Resource: Art Therapy
Primary purpose: To offer art therapy for patients in the hospital to help them cope with illness, reduce stress, and express themselves creatively.
Access Information: Information [5].
Resource: Pastoral Care
Primary purpose: To provide clinical pastoral care with an open and ecumenical approach, respecting all religions and beliefs, and offering support to all patients, including connecting them with their respective religious communities if desired.
Access Information: Information [6].
