Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology ,(NRIO) has branches in Warsaw, Cracow and Gliwice, of which the latter is involved in STOPSTORM. Between 2013 and 2019, NRIO took part in nearly 60 scientific and research projects financed from external funds.

The Gliwice Branch is a high volume tertiary cancer centre that houses one of the largest radiotherapy department in Europe, with an average of 7000-8000 patients undergoing radiotherapy annually. The Radiotherapy Department is equipped with several accelerators capable of performing radiosurgical procedures and the team has great experience in intra- and extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery for primary and metastatic tumors and for functional diseases like trigeminal neuralgia or Parkinson Disease. NRIO in Gliwice has a team of medical physicists is experienced in stereotactic radiotherapy, an array of CT, MR and PET scanners, and an in-house cyclotron with automated radiosynthesis equipment for PET tracer production.

NRIO works in close partnership with cardiology departments from other institutes and has a cardio-oncologic team providing special care for patients with cardiac diseases, including cardiac monitoring during radiotherapy and/or MR imaging in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). This has resulted in the formulation of Polish recommendations on radiotherapy in patients with CIEDs published recently.