Kortrijk Cancer Centre AZ Groeninge: Difference between revisions

Radiology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Machine	CT scanners	yes
Machine	MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques)	yes (type not informed)
Machine	Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital)	yes (type not informed)
Machine	Digitalised imaging (PACS)	yes
Machine	Ultrasound	yes
Machine	Gamma Camera	yes
Technique	X-rays	yes
Nuclear Medicine
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Machine	Pet Scan	yes
Machine	PET CT	yes
Machine	PET/MRI	yes
Machine	SPECT	yes
Machine	SPECT CT	yes
Technique	Sentinel node scintigraphy	yes
Technique	Bone scintigraphy	yes
Pathology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Cytology laboratory	yes
Facility	Histopathology laboratory	yes
Technique	FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization)	yes
Technique	PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)	yes
Technique	Immunofluorescence techniques	yes
Technique	Histochemistry	yes
Technique	Techniques for molecular pathology	yes
Pathology: Molecular Tests
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Technique	PDL1	yes
Technique	PI3KCA	yes
Technique	ER	yes
Technique	BRAF	yes
Technique	RET	yes
Technique	KRAS	yes
Technique	EGFR	yes
Technique	ALK	yes
Technique	ROS	yes
Technique	HER2 status	yes

Treatment

Surgical Oncology
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Specialist	Urological surgery	1
Specialist	Thoracic surgery	4
Specialist	Digestive surgery	4
Specialist	Neurosurgery	3
Specialist	Head and neck surgery	3
Specialist	Oncoplastic surgery	3
Technique	Robotic surgery	yes
Technique	spinal decompression surgery for vertebral metastases	yes
Radiotherapy
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Machine	Linear accelerators with IGRT	3
Technique	Stereotactic intra- and extracranial radiotherapy	yes
Technique	Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT)	yes
Technique	Respiratory motion management	yes
Technique	PET CT treatment planning	yes
Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Technique	Allogenic stem cell transplants	yes
Technique	Autologous stem cell transplants	yes
Specialists
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Specialist	Physician with a specialisation in palliative care	2	more than 600 palliative patients annually
Specialist	Medical oncologist	yes
Specialist	Physician specialised in pain treatment	7
Specialist	Neurologist	1
Specialist	Lung physician	8
Specialist	Radiotherapist	6
Specialist	Psychologist or Psychotherapist	10
Specialist	Psychiatrist	yes
Specialist	Pharmacist	yes
Specialist	Social worker	30
Specialist	Spiritual care	5
Specialist	Physiotherapist	yes
Specialist	Dietitian	5
Others
Technique	Hormonal therapy	yes
Technique	D-J stent	yes

Quality of Life

Others
Type	Name	Availibility	Uses per year
Facility	Supportive care unit	yes
Facility	Survivorship program	yes

Cancer-related Patient Associations and Resources

Association: Patient Advisory Board Cancer Center Kortrijk (PARkk)

Primary purpose: It aims to guarantee an active representation of patients or patients' relatives in the cancer care organization.

Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment, their relatives, and representatives of the Kortrijk Cancer Center.

Access: Information [1]

Course: Creative Center Workshops

Content type: Provide art workshops as a leisure activity to share feelings and connect with others.

Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment, patients who finished cancer treatment, and their relatives.

Access: Information [2]

Resource: ASEM Meetings

Content type: It comprises meetings guided by themes that involve coping with feelings, creating connections, and creating a positive mentality.

Target audience: Patients with terminal cancer from the AZ Groeninge Hospital.

Access: Information [3].

Resource: Trials List

Primary Purpose: Provides a tool for patients to find active trials to participate in.

Target audience: Oncological patients.

Access: Information [4].

Service: Onco-Home

Content type: Provides specialized care at home by a trained nurse to prepare the patients for treatments in the day hospital and avoid the number of hospital visits.

Target audience: Oncological and haematological patients treated in AZ Groeninge, Sint-Jozefskliniek Izegem or OLV van Lourdes Hospital Waregem; and who preferably have a Port-a-Cath (implanted catheter).

Access: Information [5].

Service: Onco-Coach

Content type: Nurses promote closer contact between the hospital, the patients, and their relatives. These professionals help the patients deal with the disease and inform them about treatments.

Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and their relatives.

Access: Information [6]

Service: Oncological Rehabilitation Program

Content type: It's a 12-week program that promotes physical rehabilitation and psycho-educational sessions.

Target audience: Patients who finished cancer treatment.

Access: Information [7]

Service: Strong

Content type: It is a 10-month program supplementary to the onco-rehabilitation in which patients can choose to enhance their physical performance in swimming, cycling, or running. The program promotes an individual online training program and group training. It includes a consultation with a doctor of physical medicine, biomechanical screening, and a fitness test.

Target audience: Patients who finished cancer treatment.

Access: Information [8]

Service: Stronger on the Road

Content type: It is a 12-week exercise program that includes a consultation with a doctor of physical medicine and a biomechanical screening before the physical guidance.

Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment.

Access: Information [9]

EHDEN Participation

The Kortrijk Cancer Centre AZ Groeninge is part of the EHDEN Network of Data Partners.

The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) aims to standardize European health data using OMOP-CDM to facilitate research. The project creates a federated network of data sources for easy access by researchers and policymakers. Its goal is to improve healthcare outcomes through better data quality and interoperability.

Primary purpose: Provide a dataset for selected medical conditions extracted from the electronic patient record to be used in research.

Type of information: The AZ Groeninge database contains comprehensive patient data, including textual records processed by context-specific NLP algorithms, and maps up to 250 clinically relevant datapoints to OMOP-CDM for each clinical context.

Data level: Regional level.

Number of records: 679,000 patients.

Data range: 2010.

Open Data Access: Data is not publicly available. Instructions for data request [10].

Contact information: Contact [11].

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