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ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology & Palliative Care

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Join the growing community!

The ESMO Designated Centres (DC) accreditation programme, initiated in 2003, recognises cancer centres that provide highly integrated oncology and palliative care services, with the goal of improving research, education and clinical practice by setting standards for service development.

How to apply

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Discover the ESMO Designated Centres

Over 225 institutions from 49 countries worldwide have joined the Programme.

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ESMO DC Surveys & Publications

Surveys of relevance to Palliative Care (PC) and the integration of oncology services into PC.

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ESMO Palliative Care Fellowships

Designed to provide oncologists or oncology fellows additional experience in palliative care training.

Learn more about our Palliative Care Fellowships

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ESMO Designated Centres Working Group

Discover the work and achievements of the ESMO DCWG.

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Palliative and Supportive Care Library

Keep up to date with the latest publications, e-learning and much more to make sure you don’t miss anything!

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E-learnings

Guidelines

Handbooks

Patients Guides

A Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer: Getting the most out of your oncologist
ESMO Patient Guide on Cancer Pain Management
User's Manual for Oncology Clinicians. The guide presents 'clinician's notes' for each of the 16 chapters in the patients' guide – A Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer: Getting the most out of your oncologist.

Publications

Published in Annals of Oncology in 2018: European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) position paper on supportive and palliative care
Published in Psycho-Oncology in 2011: "Factors influencing the attitudes and behaviors of oncologists regarding the truthful disclosure of information to patients with advanced and incurable cancer".
Published in Annals of Oncology in 2010: European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Programme for the Integration of Oncology and Palliative Care: a 5-year review of the Designated Centres’ incentive programme
Joint publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and the Annals of Oncology in 2006: ASCO-ESMO consensus statement on quality cancer care
Published in Archive of Oncology in 2004: ESMO's new direction in supportive and palliative care
Published in Annals of Oncology in 2003: ESMO takes a stand on supportive and palliative care
Published in Palliative Medicine is 2003: European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) joins the palliative care community

For further information about the ESMO DC Accreditation Programme, please send an email to designatedcentres@esmo.org