News and recent updates
PROCARE feedback 2011 available
The PROCARE feedback 2011 can be found below in the section
Recent updates.
PROCARE joined EURECCA (European Registration of Cancer Care)
PROCARE will participate in the EURECCA project. The aim of EURECCA is to compare treatment and survival in colorectal (and other) cancers between the different participating countries i.e. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium. In a first step, data items used in these 9 registries were compared in order to identify a shared dataset (van Gijn et al, submitted for publication).
The following research questions will be answered in the months to come:
- Are there differences between the stage of disease at time of diagnosis within the different countries?
- Can we find differences in treatment between the countries, stratified for stage and within different age groups?
- Are there differences in mortality for patients within the different countries, stratified for disease stage and treatment?
For the analysis, patient and hospital data will be completely anonymous. PROCARE will provide data of patients diagnosed in 2008 and/or 2009. These data include cTNM, pTNM, morphology and localization of the tumour, data on neoadjuvant treatment, surgery data and data on survival and follow-up.
PROCARE data entry online application LIVE!
As of today, the PROCARE data entry online application is live and available for all PROCARE participating physicians.
Thanks to this application it will now be possible to send your PROCARE rectal cancer registrations directly to the Belgian Cancer Registry via a safe and secured online circuit.
The PROCARE online application is the first to allow an online interdisciplinary cooperation: specialists from different disciplines and even different hospitals can work together in completing all information on a specific casus.
The application is self-explanatory, easy to work with and contains online quality checks to ensure an easy, fast and qualitative data collection.
New online application PROCARE RX in production As of May 1st 2010, the online web application PROCARE Central Image Repository (PROCARE RX) is active. This PROCARE RX platform makes it possible for radiologists to ask for an anonymous second opinion on cTN and cCRM, based on CT-scan and MRI-images of the pelvis. In case of discordance between the local radiologist and the first reviewer, a third and 'final' opinion will automatically be asked from a second anonymous reviewer.
PROCARE Radiotherapy Reviewing Project
Within the PROCARE project, in parallel with the efforts to improve other treatment modalities for rectal cancer, preoperative radiotherapy also needs to be standardized to achieve better outcome. As part of this radiotherapy standardization, with the leadership of Professor Scalliet (UCL) and Professor Haustermans (KUL), a central review facility is being established to allow reviewing the Clinical Target Volume (CTV) and organs at risk (OAR) delineation. This work requires a specific software (Aquilab) installation at each participating center. The Aquilab software is dedicated to patient database management with an image fusing and multimodality contouring program for Radiotherapy.
Data-entry
Data entry form – update: link with online application | |
List of participating hospitals | |
Feedback 2011 (Feb. 2012)
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