Changing Cancer Care

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More and more people are getting cancer, i.a. because the population is getting older and a larger proportion lives with cancer as a chronic disease. The increase in cancer patients puts a strain on hospital systems in terms of quality of care, number of patients treated, availability of highly specialized staff and treatment costs. To meet the big challenges, new treatments and products need to be developed. The goal of Changing Cancer Care (CCC) is to change cancer diagnostics and treatment to meet the enormous challenges through: - Development of 4 innovative diagnostic and treatment methods, including liquid biopsy and calcium electroporation, thereby reducing the cost of cancer treatment. - Definition of 2 adapted nursing education and a blueprint of centralized and future-oriented nursing skills so that caregivers can handle both new cancer treatment methods and the use of health technologies to support staff and patients, and design new processes, such as shifting roles between physicians, nurses and patients. - Shifting focus from cancer treatment in hospital departments to diagnostics (e.g., blood analysis) and treatment near or in the patient's home and greater involvement of cancer patients in treatment and care, resulting in higher patient satisfaction and treatment quality, as well as better health economics. With its broad cancer treatment network CCC takes advantage of the great potential of parallel collaboration between epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, scientists and companies in the program region in a.o. 7 departments of the 5 largest (university) clinics in the program region, 2 cancer registries and higher nursing education institutions. CCC also takes advantage of the great potential that results from the symbiosis of research and commercial interests, which relates to products to be developed in the project: e.g. an improved blood cell device or a new electrode design for calcium electroporation for commercialization in the program region. The project also creates a great opportunity to increase the attractiveness of the partner clinics and program region for highly specialized personnel, future research and companies in the healthcare industry.

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