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Review
. 2020 Jun;17(6):351-362.
doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-0324-x. Epub 2020 May 27.

Introducing PIONEER: a project to harness big data in prostate cancer research

Muhammad Imran Omar  1 , Monique J Roobol  2 , Maria J Ribal  3 , Thomas Abbott  4 , Paul-Michael Agapow  5 , Sonia Araujo  6 , Alex Asiimwe  7 , Charles Auffray  8 , Irina Balaur  8 , Katharina Beyer  9 , Chiara Bernini  10 , Anders Bjartell  11 , Alberto Briganti  12 , John-Edward Butler-Ransohoff  7 , Riccardo Campi  3 , Marinel Cavelaars  13 , Bertrand De Meulder  8 , Zsuzsanna Devecseri  14 , Marc Dietrich Voss  14 , Konstantinos Dimitropoulos  3 , Susan Evans-Axelsson  11 , Billy Franks  4 , Louise Fullwood  15 , Denis Horgan  10 , Emma Jane Smith  3 , Amit Kiran  4 , Kati Kivinummi  16 , Mark Lambrecht  17 , Doron Lancet  18 , Peter Lindgren  19 , Sara MacLennan  20 , Steven MacLennan  20 , Maria Manuela Nogueira  8 , Fredrik Moen  19 , Maxim Moinat  13 , Kishore Papineni  4 , Christian Reich  6 , Kristin Reiche  21 , Stijn Rogiers  17 , Claudio Sartini  7 , Kees van Bochove  13 , Femke van Diggelen  22 , Mieke Van Hemelrijck  9 , Hein Van Poppel  3 , Jihong Zong  7 , James N'Dow  3 ; PIONEER Consortium
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Introducing PIONEER: a project to harness big data in prostate cancer research

Muhammad Imran Omar et al. Nat Rev Urol. 2020 Jun.

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  • Author Correction: Introducing PIONEER: a project to harness big data in prostate cancer research.
    Omar MI, Roobol MJ, Ribal MJ, Abbott T, Agapow PM, Araujo S, Asiimwe A, Auffray C, Balaur I, Beyer K, Bernini C, Bjartell A, Briganti A, Butler-Ransohoff JE, Campi R, Cavelaars M, De Meulder B, Devecseri Z, Voss MD, Dimitropoulos K, Evans-Axelsson S, Franks B, Fullwood L, Horgan D, Smith EJ, Kiran A, Kivinummi K, Lambrecht M, Lancet D, Lindgren P, MacLennan S, MacLennan S, Nogueira MM, Moen F, Moinat M, Papineni K, Reich C, Reiche K, Rogiers S, Sartini C, van Bochove K, van Diggelen F, Van Hemelrijck M, Van Poppel H, Zong J, N'Dow J; PIONEER Consortium. Omar MI, et al. Nat Rev Urol. 2020 Aug;17(8):482. doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-0355-3. Nat Rev Urol. 2020. PMID: 32587405

Abstract

Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Enhancement Through the Power of Big Data in Europe (PIONEER) is a European network of excellence for big data in prostate cancer, consisting of 32 private and public stakeholders from 9 countries across Europe. Launched by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 and part of the Big Data for Better Outcomes Programme (BD4BO), the overarching goal of PIONEER is to provide high-quality evidence on prostate cancer management by unlocking the potential of big data. The project has identified critical evidence gaps in prostate cancer care, via a detailed prioritization exercise including all key stakeholders. By standardizing and integrating existing high-quality and multidisciplinary data sources from patients with prostate cancer across different stages of the disease, the resulting big data will be assembled into a single innovative data platform for research. Based on a unique set of methodologies, PIONEER aims to advance the field of prostate cancer care with a particular focus on improving prostate-cancer-related outcomes, health system efficiency by streamlining patient management, and the quality of health and social care delivered to all men with prostate cancer and their families worldwide.

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