Kortrijk Cancer Centre AZ Groeninge
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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 (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 |
Patient Association: Patient Advisory Board Cancer Center Kortrijk (PARkk)
Course: Creative Center Workshops
Resource: ASEM Meetings
Resource: Trials List
Service: Onco-Home
Service: Onco-Coach
Service: Oncological Rehabilitation Program
Service: Strong
Service: Stronger on the Road
Events: Workshops and Events
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 [1].
Contact information: Contact [2].
