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== Cancer-related Patient Associations and Resources == | == Cancer-related Patient Associations and Resources == | ||
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=== Course: Art workshop and relaxation room === | |||
'''Content type:''' Students of art, psychology and art-therapy help patients produce art and perform art techniques. | |||
'''Target audience:''' Hospitalized patients and outpatients. | |||
'''Access:''' Information [https://www.mou.cz/en/care-and-services/t1641#section7]. | |||
=== Resource: Information and education center (IEC) === | === Resource: Information and education center (IEC) === | ||
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'''Access:''' Information [https://www.mou.cz/en/care-and-services/t1641#section7]. | '''Access:''' Information [https://www.mou.cz/en/care-and-services/t1641#section7]. | ||
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Revision as of 15:51, 25 August 2023
Trials
Primary Purpose: To provide a tool for patients to find active trials to participate.
Access: Information [1].
Experts
Care and Diagnostic Services
Centre for Brain and Spinal Cord Tumours
Centre for Cancer of Unknown Primary and Other Rare Malignancies
Centre for Cytoreduction and Regional Chemotherapy
Centre for Liver and Biliary Tract Cancer
Centre for Lung and Pleural Cancer
Centre for Neuroendocrine Tumours
Centre for Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer
Centre for Ovarian, Tubal and Peritoneal Cancers
Centre for Palliative Medicine and Pain Management
Centre for Skin Cancer and Melanoma
Centre for Uterine, Cervical and Vulvar Cancers
Kidney and Urinary Tract Cancer Centre
Research Services
Learning Resources
Course: Extension courses
Content Type: Provides Oncogynecology, Palliative medicine, and Oncosurgery content.
Target Audience: Doctors.
Access: Information [2].
Training: Educational internships
Content Type: Provides educational programs and specialized training in many areas, including clinical and radiologic oncology.
Target Audience: Doctors and pharmacists.
Access: Information [3].
Training: Professional internships
Content Type: Provides training in clinical, radiological, surgery, and others involved in gynecology and radiology oncologic care.
Target Audience: Doctors and radiologists.
Access: Information [4].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Machine | CT scanners | yes | 16,741 | 2 |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | yes | 10,103 | 1 (1.5 T) |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | yes | 29467 | 4 (type not specified) |
| Machine | Digitalised imaging (PACS) | yes | ||
| Machine | Ultrasound | yes | 20745 | 6 |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | yes | ||
| Technique | X-rays | yes | 9,824 | 2 |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | yes | ||
| Technique | Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) | yes | ||
| Technique | Angiography | yes | 1 | |
| Nuclear Medicine | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Machine | Pet Scan | yes | ||
| Machine | PET CT | yes | 5080 | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | yes | ||
| Machine | SPECT CT | yes | ||
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | yes | 924 | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | yes | 937 | |
| Pathology | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | yes | ||
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | yes | 516 | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | yes | ||
| Technique | Cytometry | yes | ||
| Technique | Immunofluorescence techniques | yes | ||
| Technique | Histochemistry | yes | 27846 | |
| Technique | Techniques for molecular pathology | yes | ||
| Technique | Cytogenetics | yes | ||
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Technique | PDL1 | yes | 641 | |
| 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 | ||
| Others | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Technique | Colposcopy | yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | 11 | 1002 | |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | 12 | ||
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | 4 | ||
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | 4 | ||
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | 11 | ||
| Specialist | Soft tissue surgery | 13 | 458 | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | yes | ||
| Technique | Robotic surgery | yes | 290 | |
| Technique | spinal decompression surgery for vertebral metastases | yes | ||
| Radiotherapy | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | yes | 2126 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | yes | 43551 | 5 |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | yes | 2 | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | yes | 27 | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | yes | 1023 | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | yes | ||
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | yes | ||
| Technique | 4D conformal radiotherapy | yes | ||
| Technique | 3D conformal radiotherapy | yes | ||
| Technique | CT planning | yes | ||
| Technique | Magnetic resonance for radiotherapy treatment planning | yes | ||
| Technique | PET CT treatment planning | yes | ||
| Specialists | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | 5 | ||
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | 2 | ||
| Specialist | Lung physician | yes | ||
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | yes | ||
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | 5 | ||
| Specialist | Pharmacist | 15 | ||
| Specialist | Social worker | 3 | ||
| Specialist | Dietitian | 6 | ||
| Others | ||||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year | Number |
| Technique | Rigid Bronchoscopy | yes |
Prevention
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Lung cancer screening program | yes | |
| Facility | Smoking detoxification center | yes |
Quality of Life
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Survivorship program | yes |
Palliative Care
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) | yes | |
| Facility | Home palliative care availability | yes |
Course: Art workshop and relaxation room
Content type: Students of art, psychology and art-therapy help patients produce art and perform art techniques.
Target audience: Hospitalized patients and outpatients.
Access: Information [5].
Resource: Information and education center (IEC)
Content type: Access to a library, videos with programs of interest, copying services, scanning services, and a computer with internet connection, all with the purpose of providing advice on cancer prevention and treatment.
Target audience: All interested audience.
Access: Information [6].
Resource: Relaxation room
Content type: Provides music media that can be borrowed by patients. Also contains TVs and computers that can be used locally.
Target audience: Hospitalized patients.
Access: Information [7].
