PrECISE H2020 Project: Personalized Treatments for Prostate Cancer

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🗓️ 30 December 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode, we talk to María Rodríguez Martínez about the completion of the PrECISE project. A team of doctors and scientists recently finished a project aimed at collecting data from multiple sources and then using it to inform clinicians about the best treatment options for their patients suffering with prostate cancer. Project partners from Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, France and the USA worked in a highly specialised, EU funded consortium which took three years to complete. Learn more about the project and some of the outcomes right here.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 668858.

This work was supported (in part) by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 15.0324-2. The opinions expressed and arguments employed therein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Swiss Government.

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0:00.0	Powerful collaborations, cutting-edge science, and curious minds coming together for a glimpse of the future.
0:12.9	Stay tuned as we look at the latest updates on some of the most promising technology projects.
0:20.5	In this episode, we look at the Precise Project.
0:24.4	Now in completion, how much closer are we to using large data sets and modeling to inform
0:30.5	clinicians about treatment options for prostate cancer?
0:33.9	Hello and welcome.
0:35.2	I'm Peter Balland from Technicon, and today we are in the offices of IBM in Sudik speaking with Maria Rodriguez-Matinis.
0:43.3	She's the technical leader for a project called Precise, which is wrapping up now.
0:48.3	This was a three-year project which looked at using the power of the computer to assist physicians with
0:54.2	specifying treatments for patients with prostate cancer.
0:59.6	So tell us in the big picture what this project was about, Maria.
1:03.6	So first of all, thank you, Peter, for being here and asking this question.
1:07.7	And yes, so I'm the technical leader of the project Precise. And the original question that we were thinking about when this project was written and proposed for EU funding.
1:19.6	We were in contact with pathologists at the University of Zurich and some other biologists,
1:24.6	and they were focused on prostate cancer.
1:26.6	And prostate cancer is a specific cancer type.
1:29.3	So first of all, it's the most common male malignancy.
1:32.3	The good news is most of these cases are benign.
1:35.3	The challenge here was that there is a small fraction of these cases that are aggressive,
1:39.3	and at the time there was no way, an accurate way of stratifying the patients or deciding which
1:45.0	ones are the aggressive one that needs severe treatment versus the one that only need follow-up.
1:50.9	The result of this lack of accurate means of stratification means that many patients were given
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