Description du projet
Aider les survivants du cancer des voies aérodigestives supérieures à retrouver une vie normale
Le nombre d’options thérapeutiques disponibles pour le cancer des voies aérodigestives supérieures (VADS) a augmenté ces dix dernières années grâce à des technologies avancées. Alors que les plans actuels de soins post-traitement ciblent les conditions fonctionnelles et sanitaires, des facteurs socio-économiques déterminants de la qualité de vie doivent également être pris en considération. Le projet BD4QoL, financé par l’UE, entend améliorer la qualité de vie des survivants du cancer des VADS en développant un plan de contrôle et de suivi centré sur le patient. Il recourra à l’intelligence artificielle et aux mégadonnées collectées par des dispositifs mobiles, combinées à des données socio-économiques et cliniques issues de différentes sources et à l’état de santé rapporté par les patients. L’analyse des indicateurs de la qualité de vie recueillis au fil du temps facilitera la détection précoce des risques, préviendra les effets à long terme du traitement, et informera les patients et le personnel soignant en vue d’interventions personnalisées.
Objectif
Head and neck cancer can take away a patient’s “right to feel human,” and its impact on physical appearance, physical functioning, psychological status and general quality of life (QoL) can be devastating. Over the past several decades, the number of patients who survive head and neck cancer (HNC) has increased; this makes lifelong surveillance critical. HNC imposes an extremely high socioeconomic burden on patients during and after cancer compared to other tumors, including costs from treatment-induced morbidities, loss of workforce participation and short-term disability. Current survivorship care plans mostly focus on functional and health conditions of treated patients, whereas socioeconomic determinants of quality of life are often neglected due to difficult data collection.
The widespread technologies for social communication and unobtrusive personal monitoring embedded in smartphones and object we commonly use and in our living environments have the potential to unobtrusively collect wealth of indicators of individual QoL. BD4QoL objective is to improve HNC survivor’s Quality of Life through person-centred monitoring and follow-up plan by contribution of artificial intelligence and big data unobtrusively collected from commonly used mobile devices, in combination with multi-source clinical, -omic, socioeconomic data and patients reported outcomes, to profile HNC survivors for pBD4QoL objective is to improve HNC survivor’s Quality of Life through person-centred monitoring and follow-up plan by contribution of artificial intelligence and big data unobtrusively collected from commonly used mobile devices, in combination with multi-source clinical, -omic, socioeconomic data and patients reported outcomes, to profile HNC survivors for personalized monitoring and support. The analysis of QoL indicators collected over time will allow to early detect risks, prevent long-term effects of treatment and inform patients and caregivers for personalized interventions.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncologyhead and neck cancer
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
20122 Milano
Italie