2024
Detection of breast cancer at an early stage in Moscow increased to 79%
October 15, 2024, on World Breast Cancer Day, it became known about significant progress in the early diagnosis of this disease in Moscow. The percentage of detection of breast cancer in the early stages in the capital reached 79.1%, which is higher than in 2018, when it was 73.2%.
According to the portal of the mayor of Moscow, Deputy Mayor for Social Development Anastasia Rakova noted that such a result was possible thanks to the introduction of a new standard of cancer care and modern diagnostic technologies. Over the past five years, the number of studies for early detection of breast cancer has more than doubled.
An important role in achieving these indicators was played by the opening of two women's health centers - in December 2023 and September 2024. In these centers there are offices for the early diagnosis of breast diseases, equipped with modern mammograms. Women over 40 years old are invited to undergo a mammogram as part of a medical examination, and patients under 40 years old - ultrasound.
If breast cancer is suspected, patients are sent to one of the centers of outpatient oncological care, where a multimodal appointment of an oncologist is organized. Thanks to clearly defined algorithms, all necessary diagnostic measures are carried out as soon as possible.
Moscow is also introducing new standards for the treatment of breast cancer, including the use of innovative adjuvant regimens with targeted drugs for the prevention of relapses. This makes it possible to significantly improve the results of treatment and improve the quality of life of patients.
To support women faced with this disease, the Moscow Service of Oncopsychologists works in the capital. In addition, on October 15, 2024, an exhibition dedicated to women who beat breast cancer opened at several Outpatient Cancer Care Centers.
As part of the information campaign, many buildings in Moscow, including the Ostankino Tower and the Crimean Bridge, will be highlighted in pink - a symbol of the fight against breast cancer.[1]
A plant for the production of drugs for the treatment of rheumatic diseases and oncology was built in the Moscow region for ₽1,8 billion
In the special economic zone "Dubna" of the Moscow Region, the construction of a new scientific and production pharmaceutical complex of the company "Argumentum Pharma" has been completed. Investments in the project amounted to ₽1,8 billion. This became known in October 2024. The company will specialize in the production of drugs for the treatment of cancer, rheumatic and cardiovascular diseases. Read more here.
The digitalization of cancer hospitals has been completed in Moscow. All documentation translated into figures
On August 6, 2024, it became known that the process of digitalization of cancer hospitals was completed in Moscow, as a result of which all medical documentation was transferred to electronic format. This step was an important stage in the implementation of the new standard for the provision of oncological care, introduced in the capital since 2019.
According to the portal of the mayor of Moscow, the final stage in the transition of cancer clinics to a paperless format of work was the advanced training of medical personnel. More than 7 thousand employees have undergone special training in working with digital services.
Digitalization affected five key oncological hospitals in Moscow: the S.P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital, the A.S. Loginov Moscow Clinical Research Center, the S.S. Yudin City Clinical Hospital, the Moscow City Oncological Hospital No. 62 and the Kommunarka Moscow Multidisciplinary Clinical Center.
As part of the training, medical professionals mastered not only the theoretical aspects of using new digital services, but also gained practical skills in working with them. Particular attention was paid to the design of various types of documentation and the use of automated and mobile workplaces.
The training was conducted on the basis of the personnel center of the Moscow Department of Health, which has no analogues in Russia and Eastern Europe. The center has an area of more than 4 thousand square meters and is equipped with over 1.1 thousand units of high-tech simulation and medical equipment. 31 training stations are used to practice practical skills and assess professional competencies.
The introduction of digital technologies in cancer hospitals is part of a large-scale digitalization program for the Moscow healthcare system, which has been implemented for more than 10 years. The basis of this process was a single digital platform, developed jointly by the complex of social development of Moscow and the city Department of Information Technologies.[2]
Thanks to the digitalization of cancer laboratories, the time for diagnosis in Moscow decreased by 20%
The digitalization of cancer laboratories in Moscow has significantly accelerated the process of making diagnoses. Thanks to the introduction of new technologies, the diagnostic time was reduced by 20%. This was announced on June 17, 2024 by Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development. She noted that modern digital solutions have significantly improved the quality and speed of medical care.
 | With the transition of Moscow in 2020 to a new standard of oncological care, which includes the digitalization of all key stages of diagnosis and treatment, we were able to reduce the time for diagnosis by a pathomorphologist by 15-20%. The technical re-equipment of pathomorphological departments, the supply of modern equipment and the automation of routine processes have become the basis of this progress, "Rakova emphasized. |  |
More than 1.5 million studies are carried out annually in the pathomorphological departments of Moscow hospitals. The introduction of a single digital system made it possible to replace traditional glasses and blocks with digital images accumulated in a common database. It opens new avenues for one of the world's largest archives to be used to train artificial intelligence to help doctors analyze images and make diagnoses.
Rakova noted that digital technologies have changed the approach to the study of the biomaterial of patients with suspected cancer. Now doctors are studying the samples not under a microscope, but on a computer screen, which expands the field of view and provides a high image resolution with the ability to scale to the smallest details. The process involves pouring a tissue fragment into a paraffin block, layer-by-layer cutting into fragments 3-4 microns thick and mounting on glass. Then the glass products are scanned in high resolution, and the images are automatically uploaded into a digital system available to all pathomorphological departments of oncological clinics in Moscow.[3]
Moscow is completing the construction of an "oncological framework." It helped reduce cancer deaths from 17% to 11.8%
By early February 2024, Moscow is completing the construction of an "oncological framework." He helped reduce cancer deaths from 17% in 2019 to 11.8% in 2023, according to the website of the capital's mayor's office.
| | Now we have completed construction and are preparing for the opening of a radiation building in the Kommunarka medical center, and are also building a new advanced cancer hospital No. 62 in Skolkovo. After that, we will fully complete the creation of a modern oncological framework in Moscow. Such a strong development of infrastructure has already made it possible to almost double the volume of cancer care, - said Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, in early February 2024. | |
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According to her, to improve the provision of oncological care in Moscow in four years, more than 85 thousand m2 of new infrastructure were erected, over 40 thousand m2 were repaired. Almost 4 thousand pieces of equipment worth over 5 billion rubles were delivered to specialized medical institutions. During this period, the volume of oncological care in the capital almost doubled during this period. At the same time, malignant neoplasms in the early stages began to be detected after the start of the work of the city's medical institutions according to a single standard in 67% of cases against 62% in 2019.
The new standard for the provision of oncological care, to which Moscow has switched, assumes that instead of disparate departments and hospitals, five anchor cancer clinics have been created on the basis of the five largest city hospitals. Each anchor clinic has a hospital with advanced equipment, an outpatient cancer care center instead of an old oncology dispensary and a modern pathomorphological laboratory. This reduces the timing of diagnosis and makes the process of contacting medical institutions more comfortable, the Moscow mayor's office said.[4]
2023: Moscow will equip all oncostationaries with da Vinci robotic surgeons
Moscow has launched a project to equip all cancer hospitals in the capital with da Vinci robotic surgeons. This will increase the availability of robot-assisted operations in the treatment of cancer, said Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, on June 19, 2023. Read more here.
2022
Moscow Mayor's Office allocated 277.6 million rubles to Evogen for genetic research on cancer
At the end of May 2022, Evogen received a grant from the Moscow City Hall in the amount of 277.6 million rubles for scientific research on the introduction of innovative methods of treating cancer caused by hereditary tumor syndromes into the practice of capital health care. Read more here.
Sobyanin allocated 462 million rubles for the treatment of cancer children according to innovative methods
In January 2022, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed a decree that allocated 462 million rubles for the treatment of children with cancer using innovative technologies. Read more here.
2021: Moscow increased the volume of high-tech cancer care by 46%
Moscow increased the volume of high-tech cancer care by 46% over 3 years: if in 2019 the number of such operations in the city's hospitals amounted to about 8 thousand, then in 2021 - about 11.5 thousand. Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, spoke about this in April 2022. Read more here.
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