Organisation of European Cancer Institutes

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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 centres and institutes.^[1] The head office of the organisation is located in Brussels at the University Foundation.

Mission, History, and Background of OECI[]

OECI's mission is to provide all European cancer patients with information and healthcare to fight their specific cancer type. To do this, OECI has relied on its network of almost 100 institutions across Europe to help them reach their goals.

In analogy with the NCI's network of designated comprehensive and clinical cancer centres (see NCI-designated Cancer Center), OECI has developed an Accreditation and Designation Program. The goal is to improve the organization and teamwork between cancer centres around Europe.

The OECI is an organization that prides itself on a quality-based approach. The OECI is also recognised as the only European process specifically designed to unite and provide services for cancer centres. Adding to its list of achievements, the OECI program obtained Accreditation in 2017. ISQua is the umbrella organization responsible for the Joint Commission International accreditation and other international accreditation schemes.

OECI is the main European network of accredited cancer centers on a European scale. It 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
• 102 members^[2]
• Membership categories:^[3] members undergoing accreditation and designation (A&D); accredited and designated cancer centre; and accredited and designated comprehensive cancer centre; other members
• 6 working groups:^[4] 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 ^[5][]

• Belgium (1):
  • Institut Jules Bordet (IJB) (Brussels)
• Finland (1):
  • Department of Oncology / Comprehensive Cancer Center at Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH) (Helsinki)
• France (6):
  • Centre Francois Baclesse (Caen)
  •  [fr] (Lyon)
  • Institut Curie, Curie Institute (Paris)
  • Institut Gustave Roussy (Paris)
  • , (Marseille)
  • Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse Oncopole (Toulouse)
• Hungary (1):
  • or National Institute of Oncology (Budapest)
• Italy (9):
  • at (Aviano)
  • European Institute of Oncology (Milan)
  • Istituto Nazionale Tumori -IRCCS "Fondazione G.Pascale" (INT-Pascale) (Napoli)^[6]
  • (IRE) (Rome)
  • Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia - IRCCS (Reggio Emilia)
  • IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST- Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Genova)
  • Fondazione IRCCS- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano (Milano)
  • Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS-IOV (Padova)
  • IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Milano)
• Norway (1):
  • Oslo University Hospital (Oslo)
• Portugal (1):
  • Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, IPO-Porto (Porto)
• Netherlands (2):
  • Maastricht University Medical Centre, (Maastricht)
  • Netherlands Cancer Institute (Amsterdam)
• Sweden (1):
  • Karolinska Institute and University Hospital, (Stockholm)
• United Kingdom (3):
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (Manchester)
  • Cambridge Cancer Centre (see also Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge) (Cambridge)
  • King's Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre, King's College London (London)

OECI-designated cancer centers[]

• Belgium (2):
  • Kankercentrum Brussel at UZ Brussel or Brussels University Hospital (Brussels)
  • Kortrijk Cancer Centre at AZ Groeninge (Kortrijk)
• Czech Republic (1):
  • at (BRNO)
• Denmark (1):
  • at (Velje)
• Estonia (1):
  • , Tartu University Hospital (Tartu)
• Finland (2):
  • Turku University Hospital Cancer Centre, (Turku)
  • Tampere University Hospital, (Tampere)
• Ireland (1):
  • Trinity St James's Cancer Institute, St. James's Hospital (Dublin)
• Italy (3):
  • Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (Bari)
  • IRCCS, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata (CROB) (Rionero in Vulture)
  • Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia - IRCCS Istituto in Tecnologie Avanzate e Modelli Assistenziali in Oncologia (Reggio Emilia)
• Lithuania (1):
  • National Cancer Institute (Vilnius)
• Portugal (2):
  • Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, E.P.E. (IPO-Lisbon) (Lisbon)
  • Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, IPO-Coimbra (Coimbra)
• Romania (1):
  • () (Cluj Cluj-Napoca)
• Spain (1):
  • Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología or (IVO) (Valencia)
• Turkey (1):
  • Anadolu Sağlık Merkezi or Anadolu Medical Center (Kocaeli)

OECI members, currently in the accreditation process[]

• Finland (2):
  • Cancer Center of Kuopio University Hospital, (Kuopio)
  • Oulu University Hospital or Oulun Yliopistollinen Sairaala (Oulu)
• France (1):
  • Institute, Paris
  • Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest (ICO) , Cedex
  • Association Toulousaine d’Oncologie Publique (), Toulouse cedex 9
• Ireland (1):
  • Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
• Sweden (2):
  • Skånes Universitetssjukhus, Lund
  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg
• Netherlands (1):
  • University Medical Center Groningen, Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMCG-CCC), Groningen
• Slovenia (1):
  • , Ljubljana

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 (1):
  • Institut Roi Albert II /, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, (Brussels)
• 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):
  • , Copenhagen
• Estonia (1):
  • North Estonia Medical Centre, (Tallinn)
• France (3):
  • , (Strasbourg)
  • , Clermond-Ferrand
  • Centre Henri Becquerel, (Rouen)
• Germany (3):
  • Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), German Cancer Research Center, (Heidelberg)
  • , University Cancer Center Dresden, (Dresden)
  • Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, (Berlin)
• Hungary (1):
  • , National Korányi Institute of Tb and Pulmonology, (Budapest)
• Italy (8):
  • Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), (Milano)
  • (ESO), (Milano)
  • , - FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, (Milano)
  • [IRST]-IRCCS, (eldola- Forlì)
  • FPO-IRCCS, (Candiolo-Torino)
  • , (Milano)
  • , (Genova)
  • , S.Gallicano Dermatological Institute, (Roma)
• Poland (1):
  • , , Poznan
• Romania (1):
  • , Otopeni Ilfov County
• Russia (3):
  • , (Kazan)
  • , (Moskow)
  • (NMRRC), (Moskow)
• Serbia (1):
  • , (Sremska Kamenica)
• Slovakia (1):
  • , (Bratislava)
• Slovenia
  • , (Lubljana)
• Spain(1)
  • , (Barcelona)
• Sweden (2):
  • Uppsala University Hospital, (Uppsala)
  • Skane University Hospital, , (Lund)
• Netherlands (3):
  • Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, (Rotterdam)
  • , (Utrecht)
  • Radboudumc Centre for Oncology, (Nijmegen)
  • , (Arnhem)
• Turkey (1):
  • Dokuz Eylul University, Instıtute of Oncology, (Izmir)
• Ukraine (1):
  • RE Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (IEPOR) (Kyiv)
• United Kingdom (1):
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• https://www.oeci.eu/
• https://www.oeci.eu/AboutOeci.aspx
• Ringborg, Ulrik; Pierotti, Marco; Storme, Guy; Tursz, Thomas (April 2008). "Managing cancer in the EU: The Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI)". European Journal of Cancer. 44 (6): 772–773. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2008.01.012. PMID 18337086.
• https://www.eacr.org/strategic-partners/oeci
• https://wwicsgroup.com
• SFS https://www.sandfs.com/