Project description
A silver lining is on the horizon for pregnant cancer patients
Cancer in pregnancy is a neglected disease in its own right, affecting a relatively small number of pregnant women yet having significant impact on patient care and oncological, obstetrical and neonatal outcomes. As increasingly recognised for many more common diseases, management is most effective when it relies on a team of multidisciplinary specialists all aware of how their discipline interacts with the others in terms of pregnant cancer patient care. Clearly, physicians specialised in this condition are far fewer than the hospitals that might see an occasional patient. The EU-funded NIMBUS4CIP project is bringing a cancer pregnancy advisory board to hospitals that need it through a cloud-based platform. Project funding is supporting validation of its societal and commercial value and a study of clinical outcomes. Pregnant cancer patients may soon have world-class treatment options at their local community hospitals.
Objective
Although cancer in pregnancy (CIP) is rare (one in 1000-2000 pregnancies), it has an important impact on society as it annually affects more than 200,000 pregnant women worldwide. The ERC-CoG project “CRADLE”, has led to the finding that management of cancer in pregnancy requires a specialized multidisciplinary care of not only physicians within the oncology field but also in gynaecology, obstetrics, perinatology and psychology. However, as CIP is a rare event, most physicians are rarely confronted with pregnant women with cancer and therefore, lack the expertise manage these cases. Moreover, many geographical and logistic barriers might impede community-based hospitals and/or patients access to multidisciplinary tumour boards in referral hospitals. This results in a staggering number of patients that are treated with suboptimal care.
As a result of these findings, Prof. Amant and his CRADLE team spearheaded the creation of an email-based Dutch-Belgian tumor advisory board, that is highly integrative and specialised in the cancer in pregnancy field. The main aim of this board is to remotely discuss CRADLE cases but also to provide specialized advice to hospitals without specialized resources or with important geographical and logistic barriers.
In NIMBUS4CIP, we plan to validate the societal and commercial value of this Dutch-Belgian cancer in pregnancy platform. First, we will technically optimize the board by creating a web-based software (weCRADLE) that will streamline and improve the efficiency of case management. Next, we will validate in a prospective pilot study whether patient management using weCRADLE leads to improved oncological, obstetrical and neonatal outcomes. Finally, we will evaluate weCRADLE’s intellectual property position and the commercialization potential as a tool to remotely offer support to non-specialized physicians.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine obstetrics fetal medicine
- social sciences psychology
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine gynaecology
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-POC-LS - ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum Pilot
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1105AZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
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