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The Endocrine Tumours Clinic is a multidisciplinary unit that gathers high quality technical and human resources, guided towards providing every healthcare service the patients with endocrine tumours need.

The multidisciplinary approach to patients with endocrine tumours seeks to effectively provide high quality services and improve them through emerging technologies and advances in the clinical and basic research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, in the various healthcare services.

Its mission is the development and improvement of the healthcare services provided to patients with oncological endocrine pathology, promoting excellence, through the clinical services, of education and research.

The Nervous System Clinic seeks to provide the best answer to all cooperation requests asked by the different Oncological Clinics and Services in the Institute, regarding diagnosis and treatment within the scope of this Speciality. Thus, it is governed by the Therapeutic Guidance Protocols, issued by International consensuses.

Mission

The Nervous System Clinic’s mission is to provide specialized assistance in the Neurosurgery area to IPO-Porto patients and it opens up, according to requests from the Institution’s Administration, to other assistance activities within its competences.

Vision

The Nervous System Clinic intends to develop as a Reference Centre, whether inside and outside the Institution, regarding the treatment of brain and vertebrae oncological pathologies.

It intends to continue its innovative continuous training program, including joining multicentre studies, both national and international.

It intends to maintain a close cooperation with the best Speciality International Centres.

Values

The values that guide the Clinic’s activity are: respect and promoting the patient’s independence; therapeutic action according to the state of the art; concern for the resources’ usage optimization; contribute to improve health gains in oncology/neurology; the will to reach institutional objectives.

Objectives

Provide healthcare to patients with the teamwork spirit for a common good; provide the best assistance possible to the patient and his/her family.

Favour the patient’s satisfaction regarding assistance and therapeutic care.

Assure the quality of the services provided, which is controlled and evaluated by implementing the quality improvement objectives, annually planned and assessed.

Assure the compliance of the patient’s rights charter, namely regarding confidentiality, dignity, privacy, culture and religious beliefs.

Promote permanent training and updating of the service professionals, according to the directives given for this area by the Management and training entities of IPO-Porto.

Guarantee that the current rules of the Institution are complied with.

The Lung Clinic is a multidisciplinary unit, specialized in providing healthcare services to patients with cancer in the respiratory tract, equipped with the necessary technical and human resources to fully approach patients, from the diagnosis to the advanced disease treatment.

Its mission is to provide proper treatment to each patient, with the purpose of maximizing his/her survival, with life quality, always having in mind his/her needs as a person and the respect for his/her dignity.

The base of the Lung Clinic is its assistance clinical activity, but also includes education and research among its priorities.

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The Paediatrics Clinic in “Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil” helps children and young people aged under 18 which are referenced for suspicions or for confirmed oncological disease, except for tumours in the Central Nervous System. In addition, it provides paediatric assistance to the Bone Marrow Transplantation Service, the Intensive Care Service, the Nuclear Medicine Service and the Radiotherapy Service, regardless of these patients’ pathology, and also to the Paediatrics Intensive Care Services where patients are hospitalized on request of the IPO-Porto Paediatrics Service.

The Onco-Haematology Clinic is dedicated to treating the blood’s malignant diseases.

Although the patient’s approach is multidisciplinary, because several other Services contribute to this treatment, from which we may stand out the Radiotherapy Service, the Pathological Anatomy Service, the Imaging Department, etc., the patient receives a customized service in the first consultation, where he is given an assistant physician who shall be responsible for the entire patient’s guidance during his/her course within the hospital.

To assure quality, all patients are debated in a Multidisciplinary Group Consultation where the main therapeutic plan is defined.

 

IPO-Porto currently treats around ten thousand oncological patients per year and, of these, about 1,000 correspond to breast cancer patients. This is the unit treating more breast patients in Portugal and one of the largest in Europe.

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant tumour for the female gender. Given the high incidence and prevalence of this disease in Europe, several European entities recommend that breast cancer should be treated by specialized professionals, working as a team, in multidisciplinary clinics.

Wider search for healthcare services, larger structure size, adaptation to advances in knowledge, integration of new technologies, need to optimise patient’s circulation and flow, availability of technical and human resources, implementation of information systems that allow to properly manage the activity, were the source for creating the IPO-Porto Breast Clinic, which opened on October 23rd, 2007.

The Breast Clinic is a multidisciplinary unit, specialized in providing high quality healthcare services, equipped with technical and human resources necessary to fully approach patients with breast cancer, from the early diagnosis until the advanced disease treatment, with the utmost efficiency and equity.

Its mission is to provide proper clinical treatment for each patient, with the purpose of maximizing the patient’s survival and life quality, but always having in mind his/her needs as a person and the respect for its dignity.

The purpose of this Clinic is to provide a high quality service, by defining quality standards on the diagnosis and treatment, and by implementing a recording and auditing structure that allows its independent recognition and accreditation. The Breast Clinic team includes highly dedicated professionals to each of the diagnosis and breast cancer treatment aspects. The core team includes the specialities of Surgical Oncology, Medical Oncology, Radiotherapy, Imaging, Pathological Anatomy and Nursing. The non-core specialities include Plastic Surgery, Psycho-Oncology, Medical Physics and Rehabilitation, Genetics, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics and Palliative Care. The support team includes the Social Worker, Voluntary Service, Secretarial Service and Auxiliary Staff.

The Gynaecology Clinic is a reception centre to patients with gynaecological oncological pathology, dully identified and constituted by its own staff.

Its mission is:

1. Assure a multidisciplinary view on the timely treatment of oncological patients related to the gynaecological area;

2. Establish clinical guidance rules for each pathology, regarding diagnostics, treatment and follow-up, to be regularly updated;

3. Define criteria for hospitalization and discharge to and from the institution;

4. Continuous training of its members, with active participation in trainings, courses and congresses;

5. Promote and participate in basic and clinical research projects in the area of Gynaecology;

6. Pre-graduate training of Speciality Interns;

7. Participate in screening programs;

8. Promote contact with other Healthcare Units;

9. Promote and implement protocols with other health Institutions.

 

The success of an institution in curing cancer is as big as its ability to provide multidisciplinary teams of professionals with knowledge, well trained and with an activity so well-articulated that it allows individualizing and optimizing, for each patient, a treatment plan that may be considered ideal in light of the evidences of science.

To the organization of these professionals, the physical space where they conduct their work and for the different technical means they use in an activity towards the treatment of a certain disease, we call Pathology Clinic.

IPO-Porto counts on different clinical units, organized to provide healthcare in several areas of oncological pathology, with the ability of providing service according to the highest international quality standards.

The Digestive Pathology Clinic counts on the support of all the specialities named on the employees and departments’ list and guides all patients treated in IPO-Porto for oncological diseases of the digestive tract and annex glands. It has the ability of diagnosing and treating all digestive oncological diseases.

The guidelines to treat an oncological patient must be determined by a group of physicians including, at least, one representative of each of the specialities which may come to be involved in that same treatment (Multidisciplinary Group Consultation). In the case of digestive diseases, these specialities are mainly Surgery, Medical Oncology and Radiotherapy.

After a first evaluation in a Surgical Oncology or Medical Oncology consultation, all cases are submitted for debate in a group consultation where an integrated plan of treatment is established.

The professionals always try that this process, often demanding the execution of multiple exams, is swift, conducted with the utmost comfort possible and the least amount of visits from the patients to IPO-Porto, looking for cooperation and promoting the information from colleagues of the external Health Units in due time.

Therefore, it is fundamental that all possible information is reported to us when referencing patients to this clinic.

Also, and whenever possible, the Digestive Pathology Clinic tries to define follow-up strategies after treatment on the Local Health Units – Primary Care Units or Hospitals from the area of residence, to avoid the discomfort of doing too many trips to the Institute.