Vision
Our vision is to cure more patients from solid cancer, and to improve quality of life beyond surgical treatment of their cancer.
This will be achieved by gathering Danish surgeons, clinicians, experts and researchers in affiliated disciplines and with interest in surgical oncology.
ACROBATIC shall:
- Be a national framework for surgical research, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
- Reduce barriers for establishing surgical research
- Establish national clinical trials in surgical oncology, creating the evidence that will enable better treatment and outcome for tomorrow’s patients
- Be a national Center of Knowledge in surgical oncology
- Span all relevant surgical disciplines and cancer types
- Bring Danish surgical oncology to the highest international level
Strategy
The strategy of ACROBATIC is to create evidence within three prioritized Clinical Focus Areas (CFAs), which are relevant across DMCGs and introduce reuse of new surgical techniques and methods across the DMCGs. The three CFAs are:
- CFA1: Prehabilitation and preoperative risk assessment
- CFA2: Surgical innovation and technique
- CFA3: Survivorship
The three CFAs are defined by eight National Infrastructures (NIs), where competences will address and reduce known barriers within surgical research.
The research projects in the different CFAs are supported by the NIs to ensure a high scientific and clinical standard, and to address and reduce known barriers in surgical research. The NIs support a broader patient health care and societal perspective and contribute to the consolidation of a national cross- and inter-disciplinary research collaboration.
The NIs facilitate the use of high-quality methodology, support integration of economic evaluation, address social inequality, promote translational research, guide improved use of existing data sources, and form the foundation for knowledge dissemination to patients, the press, and social media.