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Comprehensive Cancer Centres in the Netherlands. Alex Wit, MBA/MBI Program director The Netherlands Cancer Registry. Comprehensive Cancer Centres. Nine comprehensive cancer centres in the Netherlands All incorporated in a national group Funded by the government and health insurance.
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Comprehensive Cancer Centres in the Netherlands Alex Wit, MBA/MBI Program director The Netherlands Cancer Registry
Comprehensive Cancer Centres • Nine comprehensive cancer centres in the Netherlands • All incorporated in a national group • Funded by the government and health insurance
Mission The Comprehensive Cancer Centre focusses together with health professionals on optimal cancer and palliative care for patients in their region
Purpose CCC’s • To provide cancer patients and their famiies access to comprehensive and high-quality cancer care as close to their home as possible • Improve treatment, patient care and clinical research • Contribute to the prevention of cancer and help to decrease the number of deaths caused by cancer
The comprehensive cancer centre advises and supports in • Organisation and quality of care • Guidelines for diagnosing and treatment of cancer • Networking • Consultation for professionals • Education • Cancer registration, data management and research • Palliative care
Targetgroups • Care providers: hospitals, home care organisations, nursing homes, general practitioners • Volunteers • Patient groups
The Netherlands Cancer Registry Sabine Siesling, PhD Epidemiologist s.siesling@ikst.nl Head of the department of research and registration CCC Stedendriehoek Twente Chair of the Working Group of the Netherlands Cancer Registry
Historical background NCR • 1955 • Start of the cancer registry in Eindhoven • 80’s • Start cancer registries in other regions • Since 1989 national cancer registry • Population: 17 Million Inhabitants
The Netherlands Cancer Registry • Population-based nationwide cancer registry • Since 1989 • Main sources • Pathology Departments, the automated archive (PALGA) • Haematology Departments in the region • Radiotherapy Departments of the hospitals • the National Registry of Hospital Discharge Diagnosis (<8% clinical diagnosis) • Death certificates are not available in an identifiable form to the cancer registry
Organisation Steering Group Coding Quality Use ICT Privacy
Workload • Regions: number of hospitals 5-20 • In total about 100 Registration clerks • 1989-2003: more than 1 million cancer cases in the NCR
Registration application • In all 9 regions • Partly with Citrix/webbased • Under construction:
Privacy legislation • CCC-hospital contracts • Care givers have to inform their patients • Flyer NCR • Objection and deletion from the NCR is possible • High quality ICT data protection
Data • Patient: • Name • date of birth • gender • postal code • Tumor: • date of diagnosis • based on ... (source) • Hospital • Localization • Morfology (ICD-O) • stage (clinical and pathological TNM),
Data (regional) • Diagnostics: date and source • CT • X-Thorax • MRI • PET • Treatment: date and source • Surgery • Radiotherapy • Chemotherapy • Hormonal • other
Follow-up • Last date of contact • Date of death • Municipality data (>1993) • Recurrences/metastases • projects
Use of the Cancer Registation • Cancer incidence www.cancerregistration.nl www.iKCnet.nl • Hospital feedback • regional • Evaluation of breastcancer screening
International participations • IACR • ENCR (EUROCIM database) • EUROCHIP (health care indicators) • EUROCARE (survival) • Other registries • Nordic Countries: Finland • UK (meeting october) Data sharing + publications
Specific questions from: • Care givers: specialists, nurses • Management: future budget, organisation (outpatient clinic) • Universities • Government • Ourselves
Privacy rules • No patient ID, unless signed informed consent • No care giver ID • Not on hospital level • All questions: • Program director • Working Group • Committee of Privacy
Examples clinical and epidemiological research • Trends in incidentie/mortality • Geografical differences • Cause of cancer • Prognostic factors and patterns of care • Quality of care • Evaluation of screening/new early detection
700 600 500 400 aantal personen (*1000) 300 200 100 0 0- 10- 20- 30- 40- 50- 60- 70- 80- 90- 2000 2015 Demografic changes in the Netherlands
Future • More recent data with temporary registrations (pathology based) • www.iKCnet.nl expand with stage and morfology • Guideline evaluation with (temporary) health care indicators in NCR • Diagnostic and treatment data in NCR