Data Collaborative for Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is the sixth most common cancer and the fourth most common cause of cancer related death in Europe, causing 107,000 deaths annually. Data plays a key role in early diagnosis and saving lives. If data from diverse clinical and R&I activities is consolidated, harmonized, and shared , it may allow detecting early stages of cancer more successfully. That is why the Gastic Cancer Data Collaborative project was born, a new form of collaboration that may prevent gastric cancer through early diagnosis and prevention

Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, University of Latvia, Marcis Leja, has aspecial interest in the prevention and early detection of gastrointestinal cancer, particularly – gastric cancer.

“Information is growing very rapidly. Nowadays the number of studies is growing exponentially, and it requires huge data resources and analysis so doctors could not be mistaken in some of the analysis if not being an expert. We are scraping through an increasing pool of large data. In medicine, decision making is very important. If we have measurements that could be huge datasets that is probably where the evidence medicine is moving into better diagnosis, because a human brain probably will not be able to process all those data”, explained professor Leja

One of the project use cases aims to identify specific risk factors and create risk scores for the development of a gastric carcinoma in patients with H.pylori

“Having a precise risk-score for primary prevention will lead to precise treatments for high-risk groups patients and will allow earlier and better diagnostics. Working on endoscopies will also reasonably lead to an improvement in the support of more AI supported diagnosis”, claims Stefano Sedola, partner and founder of StartejAI.