The Technical Cancer Screening Office (OTC) of the Parc Taulí Health Corporation, made up of seven professionals from different disciplines, is in charge of the comprehensive management of the two population cancer screening programs of the Department of Health in our territory: the Breast cancer early detection program of Vallès Occidental East and the Program for early detection of colon and rectal cancer, from Vallès Occidental East and West.

The main goal of early detection (or screening) of cancer is to reduce mortality due to cancer. The aim is to detect cancer at an early stage, before symptoms appear, when it is easier to treat and cure. It is also intended to detect precursor lesions, which, despite not being cancer, if left untreated, could eventually progress to cancer.

The Technical Cancer Screening Office also carries out teaching activities at the Parc Taulí Teaching Unit (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and research activities within the Care Services Evaluation group of the Research Institute and Innovation of the Parc Taulí (I3PT).