Brussels Cancer Centre - Centre du Cancer Bruxelles
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Breast Cancer in Women and Men
Familial and Hereditary Cancer
Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
Prostate Cancer and Urinary Tract Cancer
Learning Resources
Training: Internship
Content type: Provide training on different areas of care, including oncology, under the supervision of experts.
Target audience: Nurses, paramedics and psicologists.
Access: Registration [1].
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 (very strong magnetic field) | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | yes (digital) | |
| Machine | Digitalised imaging (PACS) | yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | yes | |
| Technique | Interventional Radiology | yes | |
| Technique | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) | yes | |
| Technique | EBUS-TBNA | yes | |
| Technique | X-rays | yes | |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | yes | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) | yes | |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | PGR | yes | |
| Technique | KI-67 | yes | |
| Technique | PDL1 | 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 |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | yes | |
| Technique | Hysteroscopy | yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Neurosurgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | 1 | |
| Specialist | Soft tissue surgery | 2 | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | 3 | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | yes | |
| Machine | Intrabeam | yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic intra- and extracranial radiotherapy | yes | |
| Technique | Respiratory motion management | yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | yes | |
| Technique | Magnetic resonance for radiotherapy treatment planning | yes | |
| Technique | PET CT treatment planning | yes | |
| Machine | TomoTherapy Machines | yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Bone marrow / stem cell bank | yes | |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | yes | |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | 14 | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | 7 | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | 3 | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Endoprosthesis | yes | |
| Technique | Interventional Endoscopy | yes | |
| Technique | Rigid Bronchoscopy | 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 |
Resource: Cardio-Oncology Consultations
Content type: Includes prevention, monitorization, and treatment of possible heart conditions triggered by cancer treatment.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and patients who finished cancer treatment.
Access: Information [2].
Resource: Nutritional Guidance
Content type: A dietitian analyses and guides each patient's nutritional diet considering the symptoms and problems they present individually caused by cancer treatment.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment.
Access: Information [3].
Resource: Oncological Rehabilitation
Content type: It comprises group and individual activities that include condition training, group conversations, information sessions on cancer themes, psychosocial support, and consultation with experts.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and patients who finished cancer treatment.
Access: Information [4].
Resource: Psycho-Social Care
Content type: A team of professionals is available to help with symptoms, pain, questions, and other psycho-social problems involved in cancer treatment to promote more comfort for the patients and their families.
Target audience: Patients in cancer treatment and their relatives.
Access: Information [5].
Resource: Social and Administrative Help
Content type: A social nurse helps patients with many services, such as information on cancer treatment, administrative assistance, application for social benefits, loss processing, and guidance.
Target audience: Outpatients treated with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy.
Access: Information [6].
