Abstract
Alleanza Contro il Cancro (Alliance Against Cancer (ACC)) is a network of excellence comprising cancer centers with high standard patient care and research supervised by the Italian Ministry of Health. Founded in 2002, ACC has recently entered a renovation process in order to further increase quality procedures and international standing of the network. The Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) accreditation system contributes significantly to this renovation process, which is generally directed towards all the main activities of cancer care and research, but has a particular attention to the treatment of advanced cancers that cannot be cured by standard procedures in conventional hospitals.
Highlights
Cancer care is a major health problem worldwide
De Paoli et al J Transl Med (2015) 13:360 patient advocacy groups coming together from four different continents [4]. This consortium offers an opportunity to make an impact on personalized cancer therapy across the globe by increasing the number of patients, whose malignant cells have been profiled with cutting edge genomic and transcriptomic technologies, to be recruited to innovative clinical trials and treatment with the latest innovative drugs [5]
We present the approach that is being undertaken in Italy by Against Cancer (ACC) to build up a virtual cancer institute spanning across the whole country with the intent to achieve high and uniform standards of cancer research and care, with particular emphasis on personalized cancer therapy based on genomic profiling and on innovative clinical trials
Summary
Alliance Against Cancer, the network of Italian cancer centers bridging research and care. Paolo De Paoli1*†, Gennaro Ciliberto2†, Manlio Ferrarini, PierGiuseppe Pelicci, Paolo Dellabona, Francesco De Lorenzo, Alberto Mantovani, Pellegrino Musto, Giuseppe Opocher, Piero Picci, Walter Ricciardi and Ruggero De Maria
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