Supported by the EC’s Horizon 2020 Programme and The Eve Appeal Copyright © 2015 FORECEE Consortium - All rights reserved
Supported by the EC’s Horizon 2020 Programme and The Eve AppealCopyright © 2015 FORECEE Consortium - All rights reserved
The problem with cancer screening
RISK PREDICTION
Preventive measures
SURGERY, RADIOTHERAPY, CHEMOTHERAPY
Screening
Cancer onset
Symptoms
The challenge of cancer
Arau ́jo et al. (2013), European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
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European cancer trends 1980-2010
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Women-specific cancers
47%
of all cancers in women are women-specific• Breast• Ovarian• Endometrial• Cervical
BRCA Gene Mutation
1:600 Population Risk
Triples prostate cancer risk
The FORECEE Vision
Collect hormone-sensitive cells from the cervix
Provide individualised prevention and health
promotion
Predict 5-10 year risk for breast, ovarian, endometrial,
and cervical cancer
Analyse cells forgenomic, epigenomic,
and metagenomic changes
The FORECEE Vision
Ethics
• REC Approval, September 2014
• NIHR Adoption, October 2015
• UCL Joint Research Office, November 2015
• Public Health England, August 2016
FORECEE Recruitment
Recruitment
• UCLH, December 2015
• BRCA PROTECT Research Clinic, December 2015
• European partners, January 2016
• Primary Care recruitment, February 2017
• Total of 21 recruitment centres, April 2017
FORECEE Partners
Charles University Prague
FORECEE Recruitment
FORECEE Recruitment
Identifiable data
Anonymised
Single recruitment meeting
• Consent
• iPad questionnaire
• Collection of biosamples
blood
buccal
cervical
FORECEE Recruitment
tissue,if for risk-reducing surgery
FORECEE Recruitment
FORECEE Recruitment
FORECEE Recruitment
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Prevention is better than cure
Risk Prediction Screening Symptoms
PREVENTION SURGERY, RADIOTHERAPY, CHEMOTHERAPY
Cancer onset
20th Century
• Treatment of established diseases
21st Century
• Prediction• Prevention• Personalised• Participatory
P4 Medicine
Insights into sporadic cancers
Sporadic breast and ovarian cancers
PREVENT
PREDICT
UNDERSTAND
A collaborative partnership
THANK YOU
A collaborative partnership
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