A modern Cancer Center with a multimedia physical classroom, a telemedicine platform and a dedicated call center to open diagnostic therapeutic and assistance paths to patients throughout the region. It is the Corm, Oncology and Research Center of the Marche, inaugurated today after 4 years of work with the University Hospital of Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona and with the Polytechnic University of Marche.
The legacy of the new cancer center
It is a structure where highly specialized skills are concentrated and which has distant roots that date back to the ‘old’ Oncological Institute destroyed by the 1982 landslide and never rebuilt, but also in the current Oncology Clinic of the University Hospital of the Marche. has collected, over time, the legacy. “Corm is finally a reality. It is not a hospital, it is a very modern virtual Cancer Center that will bring a great benefit to the clinical network of our Region. That of being able to give all patients in our area the same treatment opportunities without having to go outside the region. University and hospital united in building the future ”, he declares Michele Caporossi, general manager of the Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona.
The pride of national oncology
He also took part in the presentation of the Corm Saverio Cinieri, Aiom president-elect who said: “Seeing this project come about is a beautiful thing and we as Aiom are proud of it. For me it is also a personal memory because in 1982 I was a third year medical student and my father, who was a doctor, told me about the landslide of the Ancona hospital which at the time represented the only oncological reference point for Apulian patients. So, seeing that polo reborn in this modern version of it is a source of pride for me, not only because it has to do with my personal memory, but because I perceive all the grit and work behind it and to which all of us should inspire us “. In connection from Chicago, the wishes and greetings of Marina Garassino, honorary president of Women for Oncology of which she is also a member Rossana Berardi, full professor of Oncology at the Polytechnic University of Marche and director of the Oncology Clinic of Ospedali Riuniti Ancona.
Expertise, technology and research
The Marche Oncology and Research Center represents an Italian excellence that provides for the presence of a team of highly experienced professionals, interdisciplinary skills, organized paths for pathologies and personalized therapies, spaces for the patient, cutting-edge technologies, translational clinical research and basically, close collaboration with the best international centers. “The research, fundamental to improve the quality and results of care, already conducted by the Polytechnic University of the Marche and by the University Hospital of the Marche – he explains Rossana Berardi – it will be further developed in all areas and phases of the treatment process: in prevention and screening, in diagnostic techniques, in the development of new drugs and supportive therapies, in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, in radiotherapy “.
Oncological genetics and multidisciplinarity
Another area envisaged by the structure is that of oncological genetics which can already make use of the experience of the Regional Center of High Specialization in Oncological Genetics already active at the University Hospital of the Marche. The objective of the CORM, in this regard, is to offer genetic counseling to subjects who are and think they are at increased risk of cancer due to a hereditary predisposition. The Center, which represents the 4.0 evolution of the ancient Oncological Institute, will develop its activities in one of the most advanced technological dimensions, being able to use an IT infrastructure with a multimedia room dedicated to telemedicine; of the molecular tumor board, a disciplinary group that was set up on the occasion of the presentation of the CORM with the task of expanding the sequencing platforms of the genes expressed by neoplasms with modern Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques and of translating complex molecular information into data usable by clinicians; of artificial intelligence projects, clinical trials and dissemination projects with the full collaboration of the voluntary associations of the Marcangola network. “In the center, multidisciplinarity becomes essential to take care of the patient according to innovative logics and the sharing between tradition and new technologies represents the future of our social health system”, declares Gian Luca Gregori, rector of the Marche Polytechnic University.
The role of Artificial Intelligence
Thanks to the molecular tumor board, it will be possible to identify personalized treatment paths for the treatment of cancer patients through cutting-edge molecular analyzes, carried out using modern Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques and to translate complex molecular information into data usable by clinicians. “The CORM – adds Berardi – also includes artificial intelligence projects, clinical trials and dissemination projects with the full collaboration of the voluntary associations of the Marcangola network which strongly contributed to realizing what seemed to be a dream”.
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