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

doi:10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.003

The requirements of a specialist breast centre

Breast. 2020 Jun:51:65-84. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.003. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

Authors

Laura Biganzoli¹, Fatima Cardoso², Marc Beishon³, David Cameron⁴, Luigi Cataliotti⁵, Charlotte E Coles⁶, Roberto C Delgado Bolton⁷, Maria Die Trill⁸, Sema Erdem⁹, Maria Fjell¹⁰, Romain Geiss¹¹, Mathijs Goossens¹², Christiane Kuhl¹³, Lorenza Marotti¹⁴, Peter Naredi¹⁵, Simon Oberst¹⁶, Jean Palussière¹⁷, Antonio Ponti¹⁸, Marco Rosselli Del Turco¹⁹, Isabel T Rubio²⁰, Anna Sapino²¹, Elzbieta Senkus-Konefka²², Marko Skelin²³, Berta Sousa²³, Tiina Saarto²⁴, Alberto Costa³, Philip Poortmans²⁵

Affiliations

¹ European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA); Breast Centre, AUSL Toscana Centro, Prato, Italy. Electronic address: laura.biganzoli@uslcentro.toscana.it.
² European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO); Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Center-Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
³ European School of Oncology (ESO), Milan, Italy.
⁴ European Cancer Concord (ECC); University of Edinburgh Cancer Centre, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Senonetwork Italia and Breast Centres Certification, Florence, Italy.
⁶ European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁷ 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.
⁸ International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS); ATRIUM: Psycho-Oncology & Clinical Psychology, Madrid, Spain.
⁹ European Cancer Organisation Patient Advisory Committee (ECCO PAC); Europa Donna, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS); Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹¹ International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG); Medical Oncology, Hôpital René Huguenin - Institut Curie, St. Cloud, France.
¹² European Cancer League (ECL); Centre for Cancer Detection (CvKO), Brussels, Belgium.
¹³ European Society of Radiology (ESR); Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
¹⁴ European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Florence, Italy.
¹⁵ European Cancer Organisation (ECCO); Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
¹⁶ Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI); Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁷ Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE); Department of Imaging, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France.
¹⁸ 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.
¹⁹ European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), Radiology, Rome, Italy.
²⁰ European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO); Breast Surgical Oncology, Clinica Universidad de Navarra Madrid, Spain.
²¹ European Society of Pathology (ESP); Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, Turin, Italy.
²² European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC); Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
²³ European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP); Pharmacy Department, General Hospital Sibenik, Sibenik, Croatia.
²⁴ Flims Alumni Club (FAC); Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Center-Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
²⁵ Iridium Kankernetwerk, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Drie Eiken, Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium.

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.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / prevention & control*
Cancer Care Facilities / organization & administration*
Europe
Female
Health Facility Administration*
Humans
Male
Quality of Health Care*

Grants and funding

NIHR300024/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom