History
The Medical Oncology Unit of S. Paolo Hospital (Civitavecchia) was founded in 1990 and includes an outpatient clinic for patient follow-up and diagnosis and a Day Hospital for the administration of more than 50 different anticancer agents. Over the past few years the number of patients and the Services for their management have continuously increased. Since 2018 the Center has its own Palliative Care Unit, the Carlo Chenis Hospice, which works in close integration with the Oncology Department.
Profile
The Medical Director of the Oncology Unit and of Palliative Care Unit is Dr. Mario Rosario D'Andrea.
The Oncology Unit includes:
- An outpatient clinic for follow-up and diagnosis.
- A Day-Hospital for intravenous and oral therapies.
- 2 beds in Internal Medicine Department dedicated to hospitalization of cancer patients with acute signs/symptoms.
- Supportive care services.
- Multidisciplinary weekly meetings for the management of patients with different cancers (e.g. GI, urogenital, breast, lung), involving the expertise of different specialists.
A Palliative Care Unit, the Carlo Chenis Hospice, located at 10 Km from Hospital S. Paolo with a ten-bed inpatient ward and a home-care service for approximately 40 patients, interacts with the Oncology Unit since the initial stages of patient disease.
Specialities
Within the Oncology Unit we take care of patients affected by any kind of solid tumors.
Supportive and Palliative Care is delivered in every stage of patient disease in order to offer the best possible cancer care. In the Institute there is also a Pain Management Service, within the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, specifically dedicated to complex pain syndromes requiring invasive treatments (e.g. neurolytic procedures, radiofrequency neurotomy, ultrasound-guided alchoholization of celiac plexus).
Palliative and Supportive Care
Oncology Unit And Palliative Care Unit interact by a “fully embedded” model: their departments share assessment methods and clinical pathways, in order to deliver accurate and careful professional support for the patient and family members, since the initial stages of patient disease. Moreover, the PC Unit staff collaborates with professional and non-professional caregivers in all healthcare settings (hospital, community, RSA) to ensure coordination, communication and continuity of care across institutional and home-care settings.
PC Unit provides an inpatient ward, a home-care service and specialist consultations for pain management and psychological support in the Oncology Unit Department or in the Carlo Chenis Hospice.
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Last update: September 2021
