The Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) is an international non-profit organization with European Economic Interest Grouping status. It was created in 1979 to promote greater cooperation among European cancer centers and institutes.[1] Its head office is located in Brussels at the Belgian University Foundation.

Background

The OECI is the main European network of accredited cancer centers on the continent. The OECI relies on a network of almost 100 institutions all over Europe, to ensure cancer patients are provided with the specialized healthcare for their type of cancer. Similar to the NCI's network of designated comprehensive cancer centres, the OECI developed the Accreditation and Designation Program in order to improve organization and teamwork between cancer centres across Europe. In 2017, the OECI program obtained ISQua Accreditation[2] ISQua is the umbrella organization responsible for the Joint Commission International accreditation.[3]

The OECI plays a role in helping EU Member State authorities to organize their cancer healthcare systems.

In figures

  • Membership across Europe, as well as a few major centres from South America and Southeast Asia
  • 121 members[4]
  • Membership categories:[5] members undergoing accreditation and designation (A&D; 60); accredited and designated cancer centre; and accredited and designated comprehensive cancer centre; other members
  • 4 working groups:[6] accreditation and designation programme, biobanks and molecular pathobiology, supportive and palliative care, cancer economics and benchmarking, collaboration for good practices with patients, cancer outcomes research
  • 10 scientific papers/articles

OECI-designated Comprehensive cancer centers

Source:[7]

OECI-designated cancer centers

OECI members, currently in the accreditation process

OECI members, not (yet) participating in the accreditation process

  • Austria (3):
    • Comprehensive Cancer Center Graz, Graz
    • Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, Vienna
    • Zentrum für Tumorerkrankungen, Linz, Onkologisches Leitspital für Oberösterreich, The Sisters of Charity Clinical Cancer Center, Linz (SCCCC)(Linz)
  • Belgium (2):
  • Croatia (1): Klinika za tumore Klinicki bolnicki centar Sestre milosrdnice at University Hospital for Tumors, Sisters of Charity Hospital (Zagreb)
  • Czech Republic (1):
    • Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, BRNO
  • Denmark (1):
    • Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen
  • Estonia (1):
  • France (3):
    • Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Paul Strauss, (Strasbourg)
    • Comprehensive Cancer Center Jean Perrin, Clermond-Ferrand
    • Centre Henri Becquerel, (Rouen)
  • Germany (3):
  • Hungary (1):
    • Országos Korányi TBC és Pulmonológiai Intézet, National Korányi Institute of Tb and Pulmonology, (Budapest)
  • Italy (8):
    • Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), (Milano)
    • European School of Oncology (ESO), (Milano)
    • Fondazione IFOM, - FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, (Milano)
    • Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori [IRST]-IRCCS, (eldola- Forlì)
    • Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, (Candiolo-Torino)
    • IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, (Milano)
    • Ente Ospedaliero Ospedali Galliera, (Genova)
    • Istituto Dermatologico S. Gallicano, S.Gallicano Dermatological Institute, (Roma)
  • Poland (1):
    • Wielkopolskie Centrum Onkologii, Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan
  • Romania (1):
    • SC RTC Radiology Therapeutic Center Amethyst Radiotherapy, Otopeni Ilfov County
  • Russia (3):
  • Serbia (1):
    • Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, (Sremska Kamenica)
  • Slovakia (1):
    • Ústav experimentálnej onkológie SAV, (Bratislava)
  • Slovenia (1)
    • Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, (Lubljana)
  • Spain(1)
    • Catalan Institute of Oncology, (Barcelona)
  • Sweden (2):
  • Netherlands (3):
    • Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, (Rotterdam)
    • Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, (Utrecht)
    • Radboudumc Centre for Oncology, (Nijmegen)
    • Rijnstate, (Arnhem)
  • Turkey (1):
  • Ukraine (1):
  • United Kingdom (1):

References

  1. ↑ "What is OECI". OECI. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "OECI Presidential Message". OECI Magazine (1). 2017.
  3. ↑ "JCInsight, December 2020" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "What is OECI". Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Membership". Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Working Groups". Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Members List".
  8. ↑ "L'Istituto Pascale di Napoli diventa "Comprehensive Cancer Center"". 21 July 2021.
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