In an important step forward the first datasets have been transferred into the PIONEER Big Data platform by PIONEER partner Erasmus University Medical Centre (MC). Through the application of Big Data and the analyses of real-world evidence PIONEER aims to change the prostate cancer landscape to improve the health and social care received by all prostate cancer patients and their families.
Erasmus MC have uploaded two of the most well-known European datasets to the PIONEER Big Data platform:
Gaining momentum: The second wave of data for upload to the PIONEER Big Data platform has already been prioritised and is ready for mapping.
PIONEER partner Lund University have contributed two comprehensive Swedish datasets. The Malmö Preventative Project, a 16 year screening study in the middle-aged population of Malmö including 22,444 men and the Malmö Diet Cancer dataset, an ongoing prospective cohort study including 53,000 participants of which 42% are male the aim of the study is to clarify whether diet is associated with certain forms of cancer whilst taking other life-style factors into account.
These harmonised datasets will be used to begin to answer PIONEER’s first prioritised research question - What are the relevant tumour-specific and patient-specific variables that affect prognosis of prostate cancer patients suitable for active surveillance? However, these four datasets are just the beginning. PIONEER partners are ready to contribute more than 22 anonymized datasets to the PIONEER Big Data Platform. Big Data analytics will be run over the lifetime of the project to take account of gradually added and updated datasets.
These milestones could not have been achieved without the invaluable work of PIONEER partner The Hyve who set up both the OMOP/OHDSI platform for population-based registries and epidemiological research and the PIONEER omics analysis platform for cohort and clinical trial data.
PIONEER hope that this collaborative sharing of data will act as a catalyst for other data custodians, both private and public, to contribute data to the PIONEER platform and join PIONEER’s effort to improve the health and social care received by all prostate cancer patients and their families.
“Together we can ensure each individual patient receives the right treatment for them at the right time.”
You can hear Monique Roobol, from Erasmus MC, explain why she believes contributing data to PIONEER is of critical importance in this video on the PIONEER website. Watch now >>
For more info:
www.prostate-pioneer.eu
www.imi.europa.eu
@ProstatePioneer
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