Oncology

Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (óngkos), meaning 1. "burden, volume, mass" and 2. "barb", and the Greek word λόγος (logos), meaning "study".Cancer survival has improved due to three main components: improved prevention efforts to reduce exposure to risk factors (e.g., tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption), improved screening of several cancers (allowing for earlier diagnosis), and improvements in treatment.Cancers are often managed through discussion on multi-disciplinary cancer conferences where medical oncologists, surgical …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 1 January 2025 English

The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the national availability and affordability of essential anticancer medicines for children in China. [...] The median availability and affordability of all …

Beijing, 100191, China. b Division of Haematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada recommended in the 2021 Chinese Society of Clini­ cal Oncology diagnosis and treatment guidelines.28 This treatment cancer through collaborative efforts: pediatric oncology as a global challenge. J Clin Oncol. 2015;33(27):3065–73 adolescents, 2021. Beijing: Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology; 2021(in Chinese). Available from: https:// www


WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English

This Health System Summary is based on the Slovenia: Health System Review (‎HiT)‎ published in 2021 but is significantly updated, including data, policy developments and relevant reforms as highlighted by …

Environment and Food (NLZOH) and the Institute of Oncology. Workforce planning is based on health needs have a university clinic, while the Institute of Oncology, the Rehabilitation Institute and the main psychiatric screening programmes, organ­ ized by the Institute of Oncology and the NIJZ, have been launched since 2000, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics and oncology, was 9.08 out of 10. Health system outcomes Population


WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English

This Health System Summary is based on the Czechia: Health System Review (‎HiT)‎ published in 2023 but is significantly updated, including data, policy developments and relevant reforms as highlighted by …

be treated closer to their homes, and complex oncology centres can better manage the increasing number leading to designated networks for traumatology, oncology, severe burns, cardiology, stroke care and transplanta­


WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English

This Health System Summary is based on the Latvia: Health System Review (‎HiT)‎ published in 2019 but is significantly updated including data policy developments and relevant reforms as highlighted by …

health sector (for example, patient pathways in oncology), but these are very limited when addressing provided by specialized units in the Latvian Oncology Center and the Children’s Clinical University receive? An evaluation survey of the green corridor oncology pathway highlighted that communication between


WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English

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Limited, The International Society of Paediatric Oncology, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Society for Medical Oncology, The International Society of Paediatric Oncology, the International Rescue


WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English

This Health System Summary is based on the Luxembourg Health System Review (‎HiT)‎ published in 2024 in the Health Systems in Transition (‎HiT)‎ Series. Health System Summaries use a concise …

self-employed) Pharmaceutical products: FFSLuxembourg 8 oncology specialities, in addition to general practice


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 24 December 2024 English

Hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan should brace for future health events by stepping up its financial preparedness, improving its risk financing, and making its health systems more resilient, …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 23 December 2024 English

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Müller (Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg including both therapeutic and supportive drugs for oncology patients (e.g., allopurinol or drugs for infection for the evacuation of paediatric haematology-oncology (PHO) patients whose treatment could no longer designated by the Polish Society of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology conducted triage and provided Collaborative, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg


Science Europe · 20 December 2024 English

Promotion of mobility must focus on and reward the skills and To focus on positive actions to improve the con- competencies gained, the research results ditions for careers in research, …

cancer-related fatigue, inte- grating chronobiology and oncology to improve cancer patients’ quality of life. Beyond


INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 18 December 2024 French

Ce guide de pratique professionnelle porte sur la gestion des cas de tuberculose et de leurs contacts dans la communauté. Il s’agit d’une mise à jour de la version précédente …

settings, New York City. Int J Centre. Current Oncology. 1 juin Tuberc Lung Dis. déc 2003;7(12 Suppl 3):S432-


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