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History

The Division of Medical Oncology is part of DIMI Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine of the University Hospital of Verona.

Profile

Our department consists of:

  • Day Service (DH), providing care to outpatients needing chemotherapy and supportive and Palliative Care (PC).
  • The ward for inpatient care includes 6 double rooms (12 patients) for cancer treatments, diagnostic procedures and therapies requiring continuous monitoring, and 2 single rooms for patients requiring isolation for complicated/severe febrile neutropenia or sepsis due to chemotherapy. In addition, 4 single bedrooms are dedicated to PC in order to follow, in a continuous care fashion, patients no longer benefiting of active treatments.

Specialities

  • Systemic treatments approaches (Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Targeted therapy) Head and neck cancers
  • Urogenital neoplasms: Prostate and Bladder cancers Liver and bile ducts cancers
  • Lung cancer Gynaecological cancers
  • Renal and Testicular cancers Breast cancer
  • Colon-rectum cancers Pancreas cancers
  • Gastrointestinal neoplasms (Oesophagus and Stomach cancers) Thyroid, Skin and Rare cancers
  • Palliative and supportive cares

Palliative and Supportive Care

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Dr. Serena Zuliani is a full-time dedicated specialist in medical oncologist with a 2-year master degree in Palliative Medicine, as required by the Italian Law N° 38/2010 (a law related to the palliative care) for physicians who lead or work in a PC team or unit. All the other physicians have experience and have been trained in treating patients with a palliative intent.

The medical oncology fellows are trained in PC through plenary sessions, small breakout groups and a 12 months' rotation and practice in caring patients admitted to cancer ward with life-threatening illnesses.

Each nurse working in the Oncology ward is trained in PC (one of them achieved a Master in PC for nurses and healthcare professionals.

Last update: September 2023

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