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Alliance Against Cancer, the network of Italian cancer centers bridging research and care

Alliance Against Cancer (ACC) was established in Rome in 2002 as a consortium of six Italian comprehensive cancer centers (Founders). The aims of ACC were to promote a network among Italian oncologic institutions in order to develop specific, advanced projects in clinical and translational research....

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Autores principales: De Paoli, Paolo, Ciliberto, Gennaro, Ferrarini, Manlio, Pelicci, PierGiuseppe, Dellabona, Paolo, De Lorenzo, Francesco, Mantovani, Alberto, Musto, Pellegrino, Opocher, Giuseppe, Picci, Piero, Ricciardi, Walter, De Maria, Ruggero
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12967-015-0711-x
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author De Paoli, Paolo
Ciliberto, Gennaro
Ferrarini, Manlio
Pelicci, PierGiuseppe
Dellabona, Paolo
De Lorenzo, Francesco
Mantovani, Alberto
Musto, Pellegrino
Opocher, Giuseppe
Picci, Piero
Ricciardi, Walter
De Maria, Ruggero
author_facet De Paoli, Paolo
Ciliberto, Gennaro
Ferrarini, Manlio
Pelicci, PierGiuseppe
Dellabona, Paolo
De Lorenzo, Francesco
Mantovani, Alberto
Musto, Pellegrino
Opocher, Giuseppe
Picci, Piero
Ricciardi, Walter
De Maria, Ruggero
author_sort De Paoli, Paolo
collection PubMed
description Alliance Against Cancer (ACC) was established in Rome in 2002 as a consortium of six Italian comprehensive cancer centers (Founders). The aims of ACC were to promote a network among Italian oncologic institutions in order to develop specific, advanced projects in clinical and translational research. During the following years, many additional full and associate members joined ACC, that presently includes the National Institute of Health, 17 research-oriented hospitals, scientific and patient organizations. Furthermore, in the last three years ACC underwent a reorganization process that redesigned the structure, governance and major activities. The present goal of ACC is to achieve high standards of care across Italy, to implement and harmonize principles of modern personalized and precision medicine, by developing cost effective processes and to provide tailored information to cancer patients. We herein summarize some of the major initiatives that ACC is currently developing to reach its goal, including tumor genetic screening programs, establishment of clinical trial programs for cancer patients treated in Italian cancer centers, facilitate their access to innovative drugs under development, improve quality through an European accreditation process (European Organization of Cancer Institutes), and develop international partnerships. In conclusion, ACC is a growing organization, trying to respond to the need of networking in Italy and may contribute significantly to improve the way we face cancer in Europe.
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spelling pubmed-46502812015-11-19 Alliance Against Cancer, the network of Italian cancer centers bridging research and care De Paoli, Paolo Ciliberto, Gennaro Ferrarini, Manlio Pelicci, PierGiuseppe Dellabona, Paolo De Lorenzo, Francesco Mantovani, Alberto Musto, Pellegrino Opocher, Giuseppe Picci, Piero Ricciardi, Walter De Maria, Ruggero J Transl Med Commentary Alliance Against Cancer (ACC) was established in Rome in 2002 as a consortium of six Italian comprehensive cancer centers (Founders). The aims of ACC were to promote a network among Italian oncologic institutions in order to develop specific, advanced projects in clinical and translational research. During the following years, many additional full and associate members joined ACC, that presently includes the National Institute of Health, 17 research-oriented hospitals, scientific and patient organizations. Furthermore, in the last three years ACC underwent a reorganization process that redesigned the structure, governance and major activities. The present goal of ACC is to achieve high standards of care across Italy, to implement and harmonize principles of modern personalized and precision medicine, by developing cost effective processes and to provide tailored information to cancer patients. We herein summarize some of the major initiatives that ACC is currently developing to reach its goal, including tumor genetic screening programs, establishment of clinical trial programs for cancer patients treated in Italian cancer centers, facilitate their access to innovative drugs under development, improve quality through an European accreditation process (European Organization of Cancer Institutes), and develop international partnerships. In conclusion, ACC is a growing organization, trying to respond to the need of networking in Italy and may contribute significantly to improve the way we face cancer in Europe. BioMed Central 2015-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4650281/ /pubmed/26578263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12967-015-0711-x Text en © De Paoli et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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De Paoli, Paolo
Ciliberto, Gennaro
Ferrarini, Manlio
Pelicci, PierGiuseppe
Dellabona, Paolo
De Lorenzo, Francesco
Mantovani, Alberto
Musto, Pellegrino
Opocher, Giuseppe
Picci, Piero
Ricciardi, Walter
De Maria, Ruggero
Alliance Against Cancer, the network of Italian cancer centers bridging research and care
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title_short Alliance Against Cancer, the network of Italian cancer centers bridging research and care
title_sort alliance against cancer, the network of italian cancer centers bridging research and care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12967-015-0711-x
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