Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Trainings for Physicians
Content Type: Provides training regarding medical specialization and general medicine.
Target Audience: Licensed physicians.
Access: Information [1].
Trainings for Students
Content Type: Provides training in various areas.
Target Audience: Students in paramedic, midwifery, nursing, public health nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiography, clinical laboratory science, and upper secondary education.
Access: 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 | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | 2 | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | PET CT | yes | |
| Facility | Radionuclide treatment facilities | yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Hysteroscopy | yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | 11 | 1,500 |
| Specialist | Neurosurgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | 10 | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | yes | 500 (2018) |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | 3 | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | yes | |
| Technique | Proton therapy | yes | |
| Technique | Respiratory motion management | yes | |
| Technique | Adaptive radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | yes | |
| Technique | Magnetic resonance for radiotherapy treatment planning | yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | yes | 79 (2018) |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | yes | 41 (2018) |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | 19 | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | yes | |
| Specialist | Spiritual care | yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Venous Accesses | yes | |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | yes | |
| Facility | Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit | yes |
Prevention
| Screening and Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Breast cancer screening program | yes | |
| Facility | Colorectal cancer screening program | yes |
Palliative Care
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) | yes |
Patient Associations: Propo Finnish Prostate Cancer and ERSY Associations
Content Type: The associations' goal is to advocate for equitable care for prostate cancer patients, enhancing their quality of life and alleviating prostate cancer's impact. They provide information on the disease and treatment choices, along with counseling and peer support. It includes trained volunteers that act as group leaders and peer support staff.
Target Audience: Oncological patients and their families.
Access: Information about Propo Finnish Prostate Cancer Association [3] and about ERSY Association [4].
Resource: Trials List
Service: Counseling nurse
Content Type: Trained nurses offer consultations to answer doubts, give advice, and inform about courses and programs provided by the Cancer Society regarding cancer, coping with the disease, and its treatments.
Target Audience: Oncological patients and their families.
Access: Information [5].
Service: Group information sessions
Content Type: Provides sessions once a month that give informations regarding cancer treatments, side-effects and lifestyle.
Target Audience: Oncological patients.
Access: Information [6].
Service: OLKA
Content Type: Trained volunteers offers emotional support to patients about their disease and the course of treatment. Also, there are encounters between patients, hospital units, and patient associations to present those organizations and their role.
Target Audience: Oncological patients.
Access: Information [7].
