Organisation of European Cancer Institutes

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 ISQua 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

OECI-designated cancer centers

OECI members, currently in the accreditation process

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):
  • Croatia (1): Klinika za tumore Klinicki bolnicki centar Sestre milosrdnice at University Hospital for Tumors, Sisters of Charity Hospital (Zagreb)
  • Czech Republik (1):
    • Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, BRNO
  • Denmark (1):
    • Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen
  • Estonia (1):
  • France (3):
    • Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Paul Strauss, (Strasbourg)
    • Comprehensive Cancer Center Jean Perrin, Clermond-Ferrand
    • Centre Henri Becquerel, (Rouen)
  • Germany (3):
  • Hungary (1):
    • Országos Korányi TBC és Pulmonológiai Intézet, National Korányi Institute of Tb and Pulmonology, (Budapest)
  • Italy (8):
    • Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR), (Milano)
    • European School of Oncology (ESO), (Milano)
    • Fondazione IFOM, - FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, (Milano)
    • Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori [IRST]-IRCCS, (eldola- Forlì)
    • Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, (Candiolo-Torino)
    • IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, (Milano)
    • Ente Ospedaliero Ospedali Galliera, (Genova)
    • Istituto Dermatologico S. Gallicano, S.Gallicano Dermatological Institute, (Roma)
  • Poland (1):
    • Wielkopolskie Centrum Onkologii, Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan
  • Romania (1):
    • SC RTC Radiology Therapeutic Center Amethyst Radiotherapy, Otopeni Ilfov County
  • Russia (3):
    • Tatarstan Cancer Center “TCC”, (Kazan)
    • N.N.Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Centre, (Moskow)
    • National Medical Research Radiological Centre (NMRRC), (Moskow)
  • Serbia (1):
    • Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, (Sremska Kamenica)
  • Slovakia (1):
    • Ústav experimentálnej onkológie SAV, (Bratislava)
  • Slovenia
    • Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, (Lubljana)
  • Spain(1)
    • Catalan Institute of Oncology, (Barcelona)
  • Sweden (2):
  • Netherlands (4):
  • Turkey (1):
  • Ukraine (1):
  • United Kingdom (1):

References
  1. "What is OECI". OECI. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. "What is OECI". Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  3. . Organisation of European Cancer Institutes https://www.oeci.eu/Membership.aspx. Retrieved 27 November 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Working Groups". Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
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