Worldwide, chemotherapy centers that provide outpatient services face significant
challenges owing to increased demand and limited resources. Therefore, outpatient …

Around the world, cancer care services are facing many operational challenges. Operations
management research can provide important solutions to these challenges, from screening …

Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment (OCA) planning and scheduling is a process of
distributing appointments to available days and times to be handled by various resources …

In this paper a novel perspective of lean application on the specific case of the oncology
units was studied. The oncology department of a hospital located in the Southern Italy was …

A solution approach is proposed for the interday problem of assigning chemotherapy
sessions at a network of treatment centres with the goal of increasing the cost-efficiency of …

This paper introduces a new framework of using Internet of Things (IoT) in the context of
cancer treatment. The framework depends on the integration of different stages of cancer …

Abstract In healthcare, the Patient Appointment Scheduling (PAS) problem is one of the
critical issues in Outpatient Chemotherapy Clinics (OCC). In the wake of this, this paper …

Cancer is a major health issue, conferring to more than 14.5 million deaths worldwide.
Liposomes, self-assembly amphiphilic bilayer molecules, served as excellent alternative …

Abstract As per the World Health Organization, cancer continues to be one of the leading
causes of death worldwide, accounting for nearly one in six deaths, which sets its associated …

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling is a challenging problem due to uncertainty in pre-
medication and infusion durations. We formulate a two-stage stochastic mixed integer …