Breast cancer treatment: the new Breast Center of Villa Tiberia Hospital is active
54.976 cases, equal to 14.6% of all new diagnoses: this is the estimated impact of breast cancer for the year 2020. It is the most frequent neoplasm in women of any age but today, thanks to the progress of research and specific prevention paths, five -year survival is almost 90% (Airtum 2020 data).
Prevention and treatment of pathology
To strengthen the prevention and treatment options of the pathology, Villa Tiberia Hospital From Rome, GVM CARE POLISPECIAListic Hospital & Research accredited with the National Health Service, activated the Breast Center, A center specialized in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast pathologies, with a focus on breast cancer.
The Dr. Dimitrios Varvaras, Specialized in oncoplasty-oncurical breast surgery and Breast Center coordinator, explains: “The approach that characterizes the Breast Center of Villa Tiberia Hospital is based on some fundamental aspects: the presence of a team multidisciplinary specialists who works in synergy to follow the patient in all phases of the diagnostic-therapeutic and follow-up path, the study of Personalized prevention courses it’s a organizational model – defined path one stop – which allows you to concentrate the exams and specialist consultancy in one day, providing an answer within 24 hours to patients with suspected breast cancer. Furthermore, in conditions of familiarity, an aspect that is not negligible in 15% of the cases of breast neoplasm, one can request a genetic advice, To evaluate one genetic screening “.
The multidisciplinary team of the Breast Center
The multidisciplinary team of the Breast Center consists of a senologist, radiologist, anatomopathologist, oncologist, radiotherapist, oncoplastic surgeon, psycho-oncologist, oncologist specialized in integrated oncology, geneticist, gynecologist and physiotherapist. All specialists are involved in the analysis of the individual case and thanks to this set -up, patients who arrive in the structure with a suspected breast cancer can be subjected On the same day to visit the radiologist, the oncologist and the surgeon. The One Stop route allows you to reach a reliable diagnosis within 24 hours (up to 48 hours for some types of exams) and this allows a great advantage in terms of timely intervention and a greater specificity of the therapeutic proposals.
The patient, after the anamnesis that evaluates age, clinical history, previous cases of breast cancer in the family, and an in -depth clinical examination is addressed to the path diagnostic More suitable, which can understand: magnetic resonance imaging, mammography, ultrasound, eco -mirroroppler, elastosonography. The results allow an appeal reduced to biopsies and non-indispensable surgical interventions (-10%). Only if necessary, therefore, is a biopsy perform, always preferring one Mininvasive method.
At the end of the investigation path
At the end of the investigation path, the patient meets the senologist who, together with the team, formulates a diagnosis and suggests the optimal therapeutic process. Throughout the care path, the patient can count on the support and advice of other figures: an oncologist specialized in integrated oncology, a psychologist-oncologist, an endocrinologist for the assessment of bone health, a physiotherapist and a gynecologist expert in the themes of fertility.
“Our goal is to give all patients affected by breast cancer a personalized treatment, that takes into account on the one hand of the biological characteristics of the tumor and, on the other, of the needs of the woman – continues the Dott. Varvaras -. The goal is not alone survival but also the safeguarding the quality of life. For this reason we decided to draw up ours PDTA taking into account each phase of the route, up to the follow-up “.
A PDTA – Therapeutic and welfare diagnostic path It is the guide document that reports the operational protocols for the patient’s management that all the health staff is required to follow within the Center. That of the Breast Center of Villa Tiberia Hospital follows the latest international, national and Lazio region guidelines.