The requirements of a specialist breast centre

Biganzoli, L. (Laura); Cardoso, F. (Fatima); Beishon, M. (Marc); Cameron, D. (David); Cataliotti, L. (Luigi); Coles, C.E. (Charlotte E.); Delgado-Bolton, R. (Roberto C.); Die-Trill, M. (Maria); Erdem, S. (Sema); Fjell, M. (Maria); Geiss, R. (Romain); Goossens, M. (Mathijs); Kuhl, C. (Christiane); Marotti, L. (Lorenza); Naredi, P. (Peter); Oberst, S. (Simon); Palussiere, J. (Jean); Ponti, A. (Antonio); Rosselli-Del-Turco, M. (Marco); Rubio, I.T. (Isabel T.); Sapino, A. (Anna); Senkus-Konefka, E. (Elzbieta); Skelin, M. (Marko); Sousa, B. (Berta); Saarto, T. (Tiina); Costa, A. (Alberto); Poortmans, P. (Philip)

Keywords:

Specialist breast centre
Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care (ERQCC)
Multidisciplinary structure
Minimum case
Procedure and staffing volumes

Issue Date:

2020

Publisher:

Elsevier

ISSN:

0960-9776

Note:

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Citation:

Biganzoli, L. (Laura); Cardoso, F. (Fatima); Beishon, M. (Marc); et al. "The requirements of a specialist breast centre". Breast. 51, 2020, 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.

URI:

https://hdl.handle.net/10171/67242

DOI:

10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.003

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DA - CUN - Área del Cáncer de Mama - Artículos de revista

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