Clinical Focus Areas
ACROBATIC has three Clinical Focus Areas (CFAs) that are relevant across all 11 Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Groups (DMCGs), covering prehabilitation, surgical innovation, and survivorship. All the projects (work packages) under ACROBATIC are covered by one or more of the CFAs.
Each CFA is headed by a leader, who is responsible for facilitating the initiation of national studies and trials through organization of CFA workshops and meetings, where knowledge sharing and collaboration across discipline and cancer type can flourish.
CFA1: Prehabilitation and preoperative risk assessment
- Increased and focused optimization before surgery
- Develop new algorithms for selecting the right patient for the right operation
Leader
Bente Thoft Jensen,
PhD Department of Urology, Aarhus University Hospital
CFA2: Surgical innovation and technique
- Developing of innovative methods to optimize the surgical techniques
- Establish a national surgical data collection system for robotic surgery
- Creation of a national platform for experimental cancer surgery
- Repurposing of novel surgical techniques and innovation across DMCGs derived from the cross- and inter-disciplinary collaboration
Leader
Thomas Baad-Hansen,
MD, PhD Professor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Department of Othopaedic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
CFA3: Survivorship
- Follow-up, late effects and life after cancer tailored to the patient’s preferences and needs, as well as digital solutions
- Creating models that address the patient’s needs in a digital patient pathway beyond cancer surgery with focus on quality of life and late effects
- Including patient reports outcome measures as key indicators and outcome parameters in research
Leader
Peter Christensen,
MD, PhD Professor Danish Cancer Society National Research Center for survivorship and late adverse effects following pelvic organ cancer, Department of Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark