Belgian Handbook for Oncological Supportive Care

Last updated on 2-4-2024 by Marie Malingreau

Project duration:

January 1, 2023

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April 30, 2024

In short

With the BeONCOsup project we want to develop a supporting tool ‘Belgian Handbook for Oncological Supportive Care’ to optimise the provision of supportive care to cancer patients and their relatives. The tool supports healthcare professionals in referring cancer patients and their relatives to appropriate supportive care as it presents an extensive overview of the available supportive cancer care in Belgium that is covered by the social security system.

Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke has appointed Sciensano’s Cancer Centre to coordinate the development of the tool in consultation with the Cabinet, the FPS Health and the National Health and Disability Insurance RIZIV/INAMI.

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The first working sessions around Medical follow-up, (Onco)psychological care, Palliative care, Socio-professional integration and Social, administrative, legal and financial care of the BeOncoSup project have been successfully organised and some needs have been prioritised. Currently there are no registrations open. Keep an eye out on the website for future working sessions, or contact us through the button bellow.

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Project description

The BeONCOsup project is set up based on recurrent results of different projects of the Cancer Centre, indicating the need to optimise supportive care for cancer patients and relatives:

Study on ‘The Role of Intramural Health Professionals in the Early Sensitization of Belgian Workers With Cancer to their Return-to-Work’
Round table ‘Aftercare‘
EMPCAN project
BePro project
BE Cancer Barometer

With the project, we want to develop a supporting tool ‘Belgian Handbook for Oncological Supportive Care’ for healthcare professionals in referring cancer patients to appropriate supportive care (needs-based approach). The main objectives of the project are:

To develop an exhaustive list of the medical, (onco)psychosocial, palliative, socio-professional and social needs of cancer patients and their relatives
To identify existing supportive care to meet these needs
To optimise access to supportive oncology care for patients and their relative
To ensure equitable access to supportive oncology care

To achieve the objectives of the project, Working Groups (WGs) are set up for 5 domains of supportive cancer care. The following domains have been proposed: