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The number of international practices certified in providing high-quality cancer care based on severe ethics established by ASCO is growing. As stated by ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) “QOPI® is a practicebased system of quality self-assessment operated by ASCO with the goals of improving cancer care and prevention. It promotes excellence in cancer care by helping practices to create a culture of self-examination and improvement”. The Medisprof Cancer Center in Romania has been included among other six other practices in Brazil, Greece, and Spain in achieving ASCO’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification. Medisprof cancer center administration, located in Cluj, Romania, which is an outpatient hematologyoncology practice was seeking from its opening in 2010 the ASCO standards as a proof of interest in quality of the services offered to the patients. We choose this certification because it is more adapted then others to oncology. Also, answering the demand from practices outside the United States, ASCO expanded QOPI participation to international partners, growing ASCO’s global quality impact. The ASCO opened this possibility worldwide in 2016. ASCO purposes to increase the number of QOPI participants and QOPICertified practices worldwide in association with its goal to grow and exchange perceptible and reproducible quality of cancer care delivery on a worldwide scale.
