STarting an Adult Rare Tumor European Registry

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This project aims to set-up a clinical registry for the European Reference Network (ERN) on Rare Adult Cancers (EURACAN) which is focusing on 10 out of the 12 families of rare cancers, each corresponding to a EURACAN “domain”. This project will: 1. Develop the IT infrastructure of the Registry exploiting tools defined by the European Rare Disease Registry Infrastructure. The IT will be interoperable with other rare disease registries and compliant with the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles. 2. Identify the core data set for each of the EURACAN domain. The core data set will include data on patient characteristics, exposure (disease, devices, procedures, treatments etc.) and outcomes. Standard terminology will be used to ensure the “semantic” interoperability. 3. Address ethical, legal and privacy issue to ensure the data collection establishing a legal structure to ensure legal agreements between all partners involved (related to use of data, IP, confidentiality, etc.). 4. Define the Registry governance to clarify the rules and procedures to access and manage the Registry. 5. Develop the sustainability strategy to secure future funding for data acquisition and management at the end of this project. Different stakeholders including EURACAN members; rare cancer patients; researchers (including all disease-based collaborative groups for clinical and translational research on rare adult solid cancers); scientific societies will be informed and engaged in setting up and, more important, fully use the Registry also after the end of this project. At the end of the project an infrastructure for the data collection will be available together with rules for transfer, accessing and use the data collected. Within this project, the EURACAN Registry will start to prospectively collect clinical information on the entire patient journey, in order to increase knowledge on rare adult cancers and to support clinical research.