TAYS Cancer Centre Tampere University Hospital
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Education: Tampere Surgical Education Centre (TSEC)
Primary purpose: To provide modern facilities for physicians and nurses to train surgical skills critical for patient safety in conditions simulating a real operating theatre, with a focus on using cadavers for hands-on learning.
Target audience: Doctors and nurses.
Access Information: Information [1].
Medical Education (TAYS Cancer Centre Tampere University Hospital)
Primary purpose: To provide education, professional development, and specialization opportunities, catering to a diverse audience seeking various levels of medical training and qualification.
Target audience: Medical students, doctors, and healthcare professionals.
Access Information: Information [2].
The Hand and Microsurgery Fellowship Program
Primary purpose: To provide specialized training in hand surgery and microsurgery for medical doctors, with a focus on upper extremity conditions, joint, nerve, vascular, and tendon conditions, fractures, and injuries.
Target audience: Medical doctors seeking advanced expertise in this field.
Access Information: Information [3].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | 2 | |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | Yes (1.5T and 3T) | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | Yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | Yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | EBUS-TBNA | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | 3 | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | Yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | Yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | Yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | EGFR | Yes | |
| Technique | ALK | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | Yes | |
| 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 | Soft tissue surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Spinal decompression surgery for vertebral metastases | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | 6 | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Respiratory motion management | Yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit | Yes |
Prevention
| Screening and Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Breast cancer screening program | Yes | |
| Facility | Cervical cancer screening program | Yes | |
| Facility | Colorectal cancer screening program | Yes |
Quality of Life
| Quality of Life | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Phone/mail contact service | Yes | |
| Facility | Survivorship program | 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 |
Resource: Patient Guidelines for Oncology
Content Type: Provides information about cancer, treatments, side effects, and how to overcome those. It also presents instructions about the hospital's oncologic departments and online consultation.
Target Audience: Oncologic patients.
Access: Information [4].
Resource: Patient Forum
Content Type: It is composed by cancer patients, their relatives and some hospital staff. It furnishes a place to discuss enhacements in the care process and services provided by the hospital.
Target Audience: Oncologic patients and their relatives.
Access: Information [5].
Resource: Trials List
Content Type: Provides a tool for patients to find active trials to participate.
Target Audience: Oncologic patients.
Access: Information [6].
