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Learning Resources
Training: Residence
Primary purpose: Provide medicine residents an interdisciplinary training in cancer treatment, research, patient care, and education.
Target audience: Resident's doctors.
Access Information: Information [1].
Training: Internships and Research works
Primary purpose: The National Cancer Institute offers opportunities for students from various Lithuanian universities to engage in practical training, internships, and scientific research across multiple disciplines related to medicine, health, and science.
Target audience: Students of medicine, public health, psychology, physiotherapy, biology, genetics, biochemistry, biophysics and other study fields.
Access Information: Information [2].
Course: Doctoral Studies
Primary purpose: The National Cancer Institute (NVI) doesn't offer doctoral studies itself, its mission focuses on conducting high-level oncology research, training scientists, and hosting doctoral students from other institutions who use NVI as a research base to pursue their doctoral studies and contribute to advanced research in the field of oncology.
Target audience: Doctoral students in medicine, biology, biochemistry, ecology and environmental studies, and biophysics.
Access Information: Information [3].
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/Digital | 9580 (2022) |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | Yes | |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) | Yes | |
| Technique | E/S Fine-needle biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | Yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | Yes | |
| Facility | Radionuclide treatment facilities | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | 5158 (2022) |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | Yes | 8715 (2022) |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | Yes | |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | Yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytometry | Yes | |
| Technique | Liquid biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Techniques for molecular pathology | Yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | PDL1 | Yes | |
| Technique | PI3KCA | Yes | 18 (2022) |
| Technique | KRAS | Yes | |
| Technique | BRAF | Yes | 106 (2022) |
| Technique | EGFR | Yes | 71 (2022) |
| Technique | ALK | Yes | |
| Technique | ROS | Yes | |
| Technique | HER2 status | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes | +1000 (yearly) |
| Technique | Hysteroscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | Yes | 678 (2022) |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | Yes | 428 (2022) |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | Yes | 585 (2022) |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | Yes | 362 (2022) |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | Yes | 99 (2022) |
| Specialist | Soft tissue surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Video-assisted thoracoscopy | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Total MegaVoltage units | 4 | +51000 (yearly) |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | Yes | 31125 (2022) |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with SBRT/SRS | Yes | |
| Machine | Dedicated SRS units | Yes | |
| Machine | Cobalt Units | Yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | 720 (yearly) |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia ( HIPEC) | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | Yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | Yes | |
| Technique | 3D conformal radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | Yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | Yes | |
| Technique | IMRT radiotherapy planning system | Yes | 1910 (2022) |
| Technique | Magnetic resonance for radiotherapy treatment planning | Yes | |
| Technique | PET CT treatment planning | Yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Transfusion Unit | Yes | |
| Facility | Cellular therapy unit with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | Yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | 16 | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | 3 | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | 1 | |
| Specialist | Social worker | 1 | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | 1 | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | 24-hour Oncological Emergency Department | Yes | 1519 (2022) |
| Technique | Interventional Endoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Nephrostomy | Yes | |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | Yes | |
| Facility | Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Pressurized Air Flow (PIPAC) | 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 |
Palliative Care
| Palliative Care | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Home palliative care availability | Yes |
Resource: Psychological support group (National Cancer Institute)
Primary purpose: To provide a safe and empathetic environment for individuals to share their experiences, emotions, and coping strategies while receiving mutual support from others facing similar challenges.
Access Information: Information [4].
Resource: Publications for the patient
Primary purpose: Provide a list of guides and publications for the patient, about cancer types, treatments, nutrition, etc.
Access Information: Information in the publications for the patient section [5].
Resource: The Patient's School
Primary purpose: To provide information about lectures on various topics related to oncology, including treatments, diagnostics, and supportive care, which can be accessed through videos and live broadcasts via the NVI Facebook account.
Access Information: Information [6].
Facility: Chapel
Primary purpose: To provide a space for spiritual solace, reflection, and support for patients, their families, and staff dealing with the challenges of cancer.
Access Information: Information [7]
