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May 2008

The volunteer programme starts in Badalona

ICO wants to prevent the patients from falling

Brachitherapy is the treatment which alters least the quality of life to patients with prostate cancer

Acknowledgement to several ICO professionals
The centre in Badalona is the venue of the first farewell-day for resident doctors of ICO
Ten years of research into lymphomas at ICO
The scientific foundation of AECC and IDIBGI-ICO in Girona sign a covenant about a grand project of research into breast cancer

April 2008
Manel Esteller was awarded with the Jacint Vilardell award for his research into colon cancer.
Signing of books at ICO in Hospitalet
ICO participates in the sixth Fair “Recerca en Directe” (‘Live Research’)

The President of the Generalitat opens the remodelling Works of the Duran i Reynals Hospital


March 2008

A region of the chromosome 11, implied in colon and rectum cancer, identified

1 in 4 cancer patients suffer from anxiety or depression

The new radiation therapy treatments offer more accuracy and safety


June 2007
The viruses of Hepatitis C, of Epstein-Barr and the HIV increase the risk to suffer from lymphomas
More than linfoma 100 experts meet in Barcelona
The cases of melanoma increase between 4% and 5% every year

May 2007
Catalan hospitals celebrate the World Day without Tobacco
New guide to help children and teenagers who have relatives with cancer
New programme of premature diagnosis of rectum and colon cancer in l’Alt Penedès
ICO participates in the first clinic trial with a new family of anti-tumour drugs
In the last year and a half more than 850 health professionals have started a treatment to stop smoking
Doctor Josep Maria Ribera to be a professor
Students from l’Hospitalet visit ICO
The transport between the Bellvitge Hospital and ICO improves
Alliance for the safety of patients in Catalonia

April 2007
The ICO Foundation organizes an exhibition of artists from Cervelló
Some secondary schools from Hospitalet see ICO’s research live
Some experts from Mexico visit ICO

March 2007
European Guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome (HNPCC)
Ms. Marina Geli opens the second linear accelerator in Girona
Eduard Punset visits ICO to give the lecture “The soul is in the brain”

February 2007
Hereditary tendency to the syndrome that associates certain tumours to the kidney and the uterus
New genes associated with breast cancer have been identified
The TP53 gene conditions the prognostic of metastasic colon cancer
Last phase in the refurbishing of the façade of the ICO centre in Hospitalet
IX Symposium of revisions in cancer Madrid, 7th, 8th and 9th of February 2007

January 2007
ICO starts the third phase of the pilot programme of premature diagnosis of colon and rectum cancer in Hospitalet de Llobregat
Users have a highly positive opinion of ICO
A new strategic plan for ICO
ICO features a new technique for the treatment of prostate cancer
€ 47.000 annually to make oncology illnesses socially normal

November 2006
Film-maker Albert Espinosa is to visit the Oncology Agora

October 2006
Biopol l’H, the biggest scientific and technology area in Catalonia, is born
New spaces for training are opened at ICO in Hospitalet
The most advanced radiation-therapy equipment in the State is presented

September
The training programme at the Welcome of new professionals at ICO
Two nurses of ICO have been selected to participate in the Courses for Teacher’s Training of the “European Society of Oncology Nursing”
The Baix Llobregat visits ICO in l’Hospitalet
New Human Resources manager at ICO
New manager of ICO in l’Hospitalet
ICO start a new year with future objectives

June 2006
ICO participates in the X National Congress of the SEEO and the X AESMAS Congress
Doctor Xavier Bosch obtains the Jaume I prize of Medical Research
New ICO organization
The Institut Català d’Oncologia has a new Director

May 2006
More than 800 people participate in the Congress ‘Interdisciplinary oncology:
10 years of the Institut Català d’Oncologia

April 2006
L’ICO l’Hospitalet holds the exhibition of sculptures “Sharing feelings”
10 years of fight against cancer in Catalonia

March 2006
Pilot program of Premature Diagnosis Colon and Rectum Cancer

Departament de Sanitat de la Generalitat de Catalunya