Descrizione del progetto
Una vita migliore per i malati di cancro
Affrontare le cure per il cancro è un compito arduo. Nonostante i benefici, i pesanti regimi terapeutici spesso causano effetti tossici, compromettendo gravemente la qualità della vita dei pazienti affetti da cancro. I pazienti e i loro assistenti sviluppano anche bisogni emotivi, educativi e sociali. Il progetto CAPABLE, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di sviluppare un sistema di coaching per i pazienti affetti da cancro con l’obiettivo di far fronte a queste esigenze. CAPABLE identifica le esigenze inaspettate, fornendo al contempo un supporto decisionale specifico per il paziente. Questa caratteristica, insieme alla possibilità di scoprire effetti negativi sconosciuti di nuovi trattamenti, rende CAPABLE più di uno strumento personalizzato per migliorare la qualità della vita. Si tratta di un progresso significativo per l’intera comunità di ricerca.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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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H2020-SC1-DTH-2019
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
27100 Pavia
Italia