Danish Research Center for Cancer Surgery | ACROBATIC
Research Collaboration Across Surgical Oncology for Better Patient Care
About ACROBATIC
The Danish Research Center for Cancer Surgery – ACROBATIC (Research Collaboration Across Surgical Oncology for Better Patient Care) – is a Danish research center within surgical oncology with a broad collaboration across 12 Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Groups (DMCGs) under the Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and other relevant stakeholders. The 12 DMCGs involved in ACROBATIC are specialized in the following type of cancers:
ACROBATIC is a collaborative national inter- and cross-disciplinary research center in surgical oncology, and by a common effort, aims to become a centre of knowledge in surgical oncology. With the patient as an important co-player, we wish to: “make more patients fit for surgery and ensure that patients across the country are provided with equal opportunity to surgical intervention for their cancer, performed with optimal and innovative techniques, striving for an uneventful recovery that enables timely postoperative oncological treatment and/or faster return to daily life, with as few late adverse effects as possible”.
Who is ACROBATIC?
The Danish Research Center for Cancer Surgery consist of clinical professors, cancer surgeons, nurse specialists, physiotherapists, experts within epidemiology, health economy, social inequality, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, as well as patient representatives and international collaborators.
Fifteen Danish institutions with surgical departments from different medical specialties are involved in the center.
How is it all possible?
In January 2022, the center became a reality by the generous grant of 20 million DKK from the Danish Cancer Society. This is why ACROBATIC is supported by the Danish Cancer Society and integrated within the national Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC).
Danish Cancer Society
ACROBATIC is supported by the Danish Cancer Society, which is the largest disease-fighting association in Denmark. Approximately 400,000 members and over 40,000 volunteers support the cancer cause. The goal is that fewer people get cancer, that more people survive cancer, and a better life after cancer. Danish Cancer Society is a private organization run by funds raised from the Danes and work with research in cancer, prevention, and support for patients and relatives, and the organization. The society accounts for more than half of cancer research in Denmark.
Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center
ACROBATIC is integrated with the national Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC). The strategy of ACROBATIC with research collaboration across DMCGs, recognizing and targeting of barriers, sharing of ideas and results are all in alignment with the goals of the DCCC. Furthermore, in ACROBATIC, hypothesis-based research will be conducted in clinical trials involving one or more DMCGs and at hospitals from all five Danish Regions. Implementation of new evidence in clinical practice and throughout the country will be facilitated by the collaboration with the many DMCGs.
The DMCGs have for years been the organization behind the clinical guidelines for cancer treatment. Thus, the research based on ACROBATIC will generate new evidence that will be shared and disseminated quickly to the DMCGs, who will use the evidence in their revisions and/or preparation of new guidelines. By addressing health-economic consequences, we also prepare the Danish Regions before implementation of new surgical methods. All of this complies fully with the goal of DCCC which is to optimize cancer treatment.