Shifting cancer care towards Multidisciplinarity: the cancer center certification program of the German cancer society

Table 1 Current status of the certification system

	Organ cancer centers						Modules			Oncology centers	Comprehensive cancer centers
	Breast	Colorectal	Gynecological	Skin	Lung	Prostate	Head/neck tumors	CNS tumors	Pancreas	Oncology centers	Comprehensive cancer centers
Current first certification	4	7	6	5	5	7	6	8	5	6
Certified center	230	280	133	55	45	103	41	26	91	97
Certified center sites	280	288	135	55	53	104	43	27	93	109	15
Primary cases, 2015	54,230	26,660	12,306	11,209^b	17,731	19,932	6273^c	5456^d	4070	35,670
New cases of cancer^a	70,170	62,230	26,140	20,820 ^b	52,520	63,710	15,628^c	–	16,730	–
Total share^e	74.6%	41.4%	43.6%	50.8%	32.9%	29.6%	37.5%	–	22.9%	–
Center sites abroad	11	10	9	4	2	7	4	1	6	6

CNS, central nervous system
^aBased on German registry data from 2012
^bOnly includes malignant melanoma
^cNew cases of head and neck tumor: mouth and pharynx ICD-10 C00–C06, C09–C14, larynx C32
^dNeuroendocrine tumors (C70–C75, in the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, ICD-O)
^eNumerator: primary patients from centers in Germany, denominator: primary cases in Germany
As of: 31 December 2016, does not include data on the two most recently added modules (liver, stomach)

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