The European Institute of Oncology ( it, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, IEO) is a non-profit private-law comprehensive

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centre located in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

, Italy. It is a clinic, a research centre and a training institution. IEO is a member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life science research centres in Europe. The European Institute of

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works on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer by developing clinical and scientific research coupled with organisation and management. It provides a professional network for its members.

History

The European Institute of Oncology was conceived by

Umberto Veronesi Umberto Veronesi (; 28 November 1925 – 8 November 2016) was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning ove ...

, who developed a new model for health and advanced research in the international oncology field. The institute was inaugurated in May 1994 and is today managed by Division and Unit Directors from eight European countries. The Institute became a research hospital and treatment centre (IRCCS or ) through the

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issued in January 1996. The European Institute of Oncology provides services through agreements with Italy’s National Health Service. Professor Gordon McVie performs outreach activities on behalf of the IEO. The Institute integrates various activities involved in the fight against cancer: prevention and diagnosis, health education and training, research and treatment. At its centre in Via Ripamonti all clinical, research and training activities take place. In 2002 the institute opened IEO CENTRO, an integrated cancer diagnosis centre in downtown Milan.

Journal

''ecancermedicalscience'' is the non-profit

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journal of the European Institute of Oncology. Founded by Professors

and Gordon McVie in 2007, ''e''cancermedicalscience is published by Cancer Intelligence and forms part of ''e''cancer.org. In 2014, Managing Editor Gordon McVie was accepted as a Scholar Member of the World Association of Medical Editors.ecancermedicalscience Managing Editor accepted as a member of WAME
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Business model

''e''cancermedicalscience is a non-profit journal supported by charitable funding. The key founding charities are The Umberto Veronesi Foundation, the European Institute of Oncology Foundation and Swiss Bridge. In 2014, ''e''cancermedicalscience became the first open-access journal to charge article fees based on a "pay what you can afford" model. Authors with access to publication funding may donate voluntarily to the journal to cover publication costs. Authors without access to funding do not have to pay any portion of the publishing costs.ecancer
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In the news

In June 2014, a case report published in ''e''cancermedicalscience received international media attention. The case report described a young Latin American girl whose fits of inappropriate laughter were mistakenly diagnosed as misbehavior or

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, but were found to be

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s caused by a brain tumor.

Abstracting and indexing

''e''cancermedicalscience is indexed in the following repositories:

Memberships

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, of which ''e''cancermedicalscience is a memberOpen Access Scholarly Publishers Association: ecancermedicalscience
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Committee on Publication Ethics The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to define best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing and to assist editors and publishers to achieve this. Mission COPE educates and su ...

, of which ''e''cancermedicalscience is a member.

References

External links

European Institute of Oncology Website

''e''cancermedicalscience (Open Access journal of the European Institute of Oncology)
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