SCIENTIFIC REPORT 2010 - 2011 - IOV

Multidisciplinary Groups
The clinical and research activity of the Institute is carried out
according to a model of multidisciplinarity. While this modality
of approach to cancer patients fully fits the most accredited trends
of modern Oncology, it also reflects the spirit of our Institute,
where the presence of spikes of true excellence in some areas does
not obscure the collegial work that permits the expression of this
excellence. In other words, we are all convinced that the constant
advancement of the clinical and research levels of our Institute,
and the eventual steady improvement of the standards of care and
the quality of life of our patients, only rely on the work of all of us.
As in the functioning of a watch, the merit of indicating the real
time is not attributable to one or the other piece composing the
mechanism, but it is the result of the coordinated movement and
function of all the parts of the watch. This spirit is reflected on the
fact that most activities are carried out through organ-oriented
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multidisciplinary groups, which include all the experts needed to
face a single pathology, from prevention to therapy to rehabilitation
and palliation in terminal patients. This is possible because the
IOV is embedded in a fertile milieu of different expertise, spread
among the University of Padova and the other health structures
operating in this area. Thus, some multidisciplinary groups also
include researchers not formally belonging to IOV, and conversely
many specialists belonging to IOV are asked to participate in
clinical and research multidisciplinary groups based on other
sanitary structures. This cross-fertilization makes it possible the
constant rise to excellence of the Medicine and Oncology in
Padova.
The oncologic multidisciplinary groups operating since many
years are listed in the Table with the indication of the contributing
structures.