Descripción del proyecto
Una vida mejor para los pacientes con cáncer
Afrontar los tratamientos oncológicos requiere un enorme esfuerzo. A pesar de sus beneficios, los regímenes terapéuticos potentes a menudo causan toxicidad, lo que empeora gravemente la calidad de vida de los pacientes con cáncer. Además, los pacientes y sus cuidadores desarrollan necesidades emocionales, educativas y sociales. El proyecto CAPABLE, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene por objeto desarrollar un sistema de orientación para pacientes con cáncer a fin de que puedan hacer frente a estas necesidades. CAPABLE identifica necesidades inesperadas y, al mismo tiempo, presta apoyo para la toma de decisiones específico para el paciente. Esta característica, junto con la posibilidad de descubrir efectos adversos desconocidos de los nuevos tratamientos, hace que CAPABLE sea más que una herramienta personalizada para mejorar la calidad de vida. Supone un avance importante para toda la comunidad investigadora.
Objetivo
After the primary intervention, most of cancer patients are managed at home, facing long-term treatments or sequelae, making the disease comparable to a chronic condition. Despite their benefit, strong therapeutic regimens often cause toxicity, severely impairing quality of life. This may decrease adherence to treatment, thus compromising therapeutic efficacy. Also due to age-related multimorbidity, patients and their caregivers develop emotional, educational and social needs. CAPABLE will develop a cancer patient coaching system with the objective of facing these needs/issues.
The time is right to fully exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data potentialities for cancer care and bring them to patients’ home. CAPABLE will rely on predictive models based on both retrospective and prospective data (clinical data, data from unobtrusive environmental and wearable sensors, data from social media and questionnaires). Models will be integrated with existing clinical practice guidelines and made available to oncologists.
Thanks to the mobile coaching system for patients, CAPABLE will allow identifying unexpected needs, and providing patient-specific decision support. This feature, together with the chance of discovering unknown adverse effects of new treatments, makes CAPABLE more than a personalised tool for improving life quality, an advance for the whole research community.
Our team includes complementary partners with experience in data- and knowledge-driven AI, data integration, telemedicine, decision support. In addition, the involved patients’ association gives a unique opportunity to access thousands of questionnaires on patients’ needs, which will inform the system design. The project addresses EU priorities such as shifting care from hospitals to home to face scarcity of healthcare resources, facilitating patients’ re-integration in the society and in the labour market, and ensuring all EU citizens to benefit from an effective, novel cancer care model.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SC1-DTH-2019
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
27100 Pavia
Italia