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A Message from the President,
Prof. Ulrik Ringborg (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
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Dear OECI Members,
in parallel with an increasing cancer burden, due to both increasing incidence and
also to patients living longer with chronic cancer disease, the complexity of cancer
care and research is escalating. For quality of care, multidisciplinary approaches
including diagnostic specialities, treatment disciplines as well as different types
of supportive care, is mandatory. Complexity in research is increasing with an enormous
expansion of information in basic and preclinical cancer research, providing information
of potential interest for clinical research. European cancer research is often criticized
because it is fragmented. To avoid fragmentation, cancer research should be integrated
into a research continuum from basic through preclinical and clinical research to
structured implementation and evaluation of new diagnostic and treatment methods
in routine care. The ideal integration of the research process can be best achieved
in the comprehensive cancer centre (CCC), since this structure is the only one where
all research components exist and integration with cancer care is natural. Further,
education has a position in the CCC and is integrated with care and research.
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in a nutshell
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History
The beginning of OECI could be dated back to 1977 when, at the initiative of UICC
(International Union against Cancer) sixty leading personalities in oncology from
all over Europe assembled to discuss joint action for promoting greater cooperation
among the world's cancer centres and institutes in the field of cancer collaborative
research.
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Organization
OECI is a continuously growing and developing network presently regrouping around
50 centres across Europe who is dynamically working in crosscut expertise projects
supported by the Education and the Guidelines Working Groups.
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Mission
The OECI-EEIG mission is to bring together the cancer research and care institutions
of the EU in order to create a critical mass of expertise and competence.
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The OECI Mission Statement
The Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI)
A European Economic Interest Grouping
The OECI mission is to bring together the cancer research and care institutions
of the EU in order to create a critical mass of expertise and competence with the
view of building and maintaining a consensus on the best models of oncology,
developing concrete affordable and realistic solutions to effectively combat cancer,
and fostering the widest deployment of oncology models and solutions to improve
the quality of life for the patients in the EU.
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The position of the organization of European Cancer Institutes
Open Letter to the European Commission
and to the Ministers of Health and Research in the Member States
The position of the organization of European Cancer Institutes
Each year in the EU, 2 million people die of cancer and 3 million new cancer cases are diagnosed.
Cancer is an increasing health threat and combating it places enormous economic and social burdens
on the national health systems and health institutions. Concerted political action is required now,
to control the growing incidence of the disease.
In addition to encouraging primary prevention, we need affordable effective treatments for all citizens.
This goal will not be achieved unless there are concerted efforts at the EU-level to improve the
effectiveness of oncology in all of the various health-care systems. The problem of fragmentation
in care and research can only be solved with the development of multidisciplinary care and research,
the integration of care, research, and education, and the collaboration necessary to reach a critical mass.
The focus is harmonized comprehensive cancer centers to create innovation.
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- Scientific Conference
"Discovering new worlds in medicine towards nanoapplication in cancer prevention and treatment" and General Assembly May 2008, Genoa The 2008 OECI Scientific Conference aims to explore coming forms of personalized medicine in which an early detection and better comprehension
of the disease will define more appropriate and effective treatments of cancer
Programme:
www.oeci-eeig.org/Genova.aspx
- Workshop, WG Pathobiology
24 & 25 October, Cluj, Romania
First call
- TRANSFOG project
Validation phase of genetic signatures on samples. Training sessions to homogenize sample collection and handling, and eventually RNA extraction and gene expression profiling.
- Workshop
”Nurses and multidisciplinarity in a comprehensive cancer centre”
2008, Stockholm - Date to be communicated soon
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