Breast (Jun 2020)
The requirements of a specialist breast centre
- Laura Biganzoli,
- Fatima Cardoso,
- Marc Beishon,
- David Cameron,
- Luigi Cataliotti,
- Charlotte E. Coles,
- Roberto C. Delgado Bolton,
- Maria Die Trill,
- Sema Erdem,
- Maria Fjell,
- Romain Geiss,
- Mathijs Goossens,
- Christiane Kuhl,
- Lorenza Marotti,
- Peter Naredi,
- Simon Oberst,
- Jean Palussière,
- Antonio Ponti,
- Marco Rosselli Del Turco,
- Isabel T. Rubio,
- Anna Sapino,
- Elzbieta Senkus-Konefka,
- Marko Skelin,
- Berta Sousa,
- Tiina Saarto,
- Alberto Costa,
- Philip Poortmans
Affiliations
- Laura Biganzoli
- European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA); Breast Centre, AUSL Toscana Centro, Prato, Italy; Corresponding author.
- Fatima Cardoso
- European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO); Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Center-Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
- Marc Beishon
- European School of Oncology (ESO), Milan, Italy
- David Cameron
- European Cancer Concord (ECC); University of Edinburgh Cancer Centre, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Luigi Cataliotti
- European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Senonetwork Italia and Breast Centres Certification, Florence, Italy
- Charlotte E. Coles
- European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Roberto C. Delgado Bolton
- European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM); Department of Diagnostic Imaging (Radiology) and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital San Pedro and Centre for Biomedical Research of La Rioja (CIBIR), University of La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
- Maria Die Trill
- International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS); ATRIUM: Psycho-Oncology & Clinical Psychology, Madrid, Spain
- Sema Erdem
- European Cancer Organisation Patient Advisory Committee (ECCO PAC); Europa Donna, Milan, Italy
- Maria Fjell
- European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS); Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Romain Geiss
- International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG); Medical Oncology, Hôpital René Huguenin - Institut Curie, St. Cloud, France
- Mathijs Goossens
- European Cancer League (ECL); Centre for Cancer Detection (CvKO), Brussels, Belgium
- Christiane Kuhl
- European Society of Radiology (ESR); Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
- Lorenza Marotti
- European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Florence, Italy
- Peter Naredi
- European Cancer Organisation (ECCO); Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Simon Oberst
- Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI); Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Jean Palussière
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE); Department of Imaging, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
- Antonio Ponti
- European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Centre for Epidemiology and Prevention in Oncology (CPO) Piemonte, AOU Citta’ Della Salute e Della Scienza, Turin, Italy
- Marco Rosselli Del Turco
- European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Radiology, Rome, Italy
- Isabel T. Rubio
- European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO); Breast Surgical Oncology, Clinica Universidad de Navarra Madrid, Spain
- Anna Sapino
- European Society of Pathology (ESP); Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, Turin, Italy
- Elzbieta Senkus-Konefka
- European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC); Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
- Marko Skelin
- European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP); Pharmacy Department, General Hospital Sibenik, Sibenik, Croatia
- Berta Sousa
- European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP); Pharmacy Department, General Hospital Sibenik, Sibenik, Croatia
- Tiina Saarto
- Flims Alumni Club (FAC); Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Center-Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
- Alberto Costa
- European School of Oncology (ESO), Milan, Italy
- Philip Poortmans
- Iridium Kankernetwerk, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Drie Eiken, Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 51
pp. 65 – 84
Abstract
This article is an update of the requirements of a specialist breast centre, produced by EUSOMA and endorsed by ECCO as part of Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care (ERQCC) programme, and ESMO.To meet aspirations for comprehensive cancer control, healthcare organisations must consider the requirements in this article, paying particular attention to multidisciplinarity and patient-centred pathways from diagnosis, to treatment, to survivorship. • The centrepiece of this article is the requirements section, comprising definitions; multidisciplinary structure; minimum case, procedure and staffing volumes; and detailed descriptions of the skills of, and resources needed by, members and specialisms in the multidisciplinary team in a breast centre. • These requirements are positioned within narrative on European breast cancer epidemiology, the standard of care, challenges to delivering this standard, and supporting evidence, to enable a broad audience to appreciate the importance of establishing these requirements in specialist breast centres.
