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. The organisation’s head office is located in Brussels at the University Foundation.

Mission, history, and background

OECI’s mission is to give to all European cancer patients the possibility of receiving the best available care. It is a network of almost 100 institutions across Europe.


Quality improvement in Cancer Care and Research

In analogy to the NCI's network of designated comprehensive and clinical cancer centers (see NCI-designated Cancer Center), OECI has developed an Accreditation and Designation Programme. Its goal is to improve our cancer centres’ organisation. More than 50% of the OECI Members are included in the A&D Programme. The OECI quality approach is now recognised as the only existing European process specifically designed for cancer centres. Moreover, in 2017 the OECI Standards implemented in the accreditation programme obtained itself ISQua Accreditation. ISQua is the umbrella organization responsible for accrediting the Joint Commission International accreditation and other international accreditation schemes.

A rigorous and independent methodology

OECI is the main European network of accredited cancer centres on a European scale. It plays a role in helping EU Member State authorities to organise their cancer health care systems.

The OECI in figures

  • Membership across Europe
  • More than 78 members
  • Membership: members ; members undergoing accreditation programme; accredited clinical cancer centers and accredited comprehensive cancer centers
  • 8 working groups

OECI-designated Comprehensive cancer centers

OECI-designated clinical cancer centers

  • Belgium (2):
  • Czech Republic (1): Masarykův onkologický ústav at Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (BRNO)
  • Denmark (1): Velje Cancer Centre at Lillebaelt Hospital (Velje)
  • Estonia (1): Sihtasutus Tartu Ülikooli Kliinikum, Tartu University Hospital (Tartu)
  • Italy (4):
    • Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (Bari)
    • Istituto Nazionale Tumori -IRCCS "Fondazione G.Pascale" (INT-Pascale) (Napoli)
    • 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):
  • Romania (1): The “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta” Institute of Oncology (IOCN) (Cluj Cluj-Napoca)
  • Spain (1):
    • Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología or Valencia Oncology Institute Foundation (IVO) (Valencia)
  • Turkey (1):

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):
    • Institut Roi Albert II /King Albert II Cancer Institute, 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 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):
    • North Estonia Medical Centre, (Tallinn)
  • 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):
  • The Netherlands (4):
    • Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, (Rotterdam)
    • Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, (Utrecht)
    • Radboudumc Centre for Oncology, (Nijmegen)
    • Rijnstate, (Arnhem)
    • University Medical Center Groningen Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMCG-CCC), (Groningen)
  • Turkey (1):
  • Ukraine (1):
  • United Kingdom (1):

Funding for the OECI

OECI Charitable Trust?

At present OECI is financed through membership payments by member institutions.

Main scientific events and methodology courses

  • Annual OECI Oncology Days
  • EACR-OECI Joint Training Course

See also

References

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