PREMIO COLLAB’s vision

is to prolong overall survival and improve the quality of life for patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) by providing refined guidance for managing response monitoring. PREMIO COLLAB strives to facilitate improved patient care and streamlined clinical workflows addressing the needs of patients, healthcare, professionals, and society.

Response evaluation methods for patients with MBC have not been modernised for decades, although molecular imaging with FDG-PET/CT has emerged as a highly accurate method for staging MBC, and staging and monitoring MBC has a profound influence on treatment options and the chances of survival. Furthermore, the patient perspective has rarely been considered, although continous response evaluation in a monitoring setting has interacted with th elife of MBC patients for years. Still, no specific recommendations are provided inernationally for response evaluation in MBC or in the overall management of monitoring.

PREMIO COLLAB offers

complementary compentencies in an interdisciplinary collaborative effort to lift this complex task. In a pragmatic multicenter randomised clinical trial (RCT), we will apply the intervention of FDG-PET/CT-based monitoring and compare it with conventional CT as state-of-the-art. The objectives are to analyse the impact of intervention on overall survival and quality of life in patients with MBC and include cost-effectiveness analyses directly informing HTA agencies and health policymakers. Building on knowledge from the RCT, we will use participatory research design to develop improved and modernised patient pathways and digital workflows. AI-based solutions in imaging and liquid biopsies constitute perspectives with a broader horizon.

The work will be done in multiple European centres and living labs with patient representatives, clinicians, and relevant stakeholders aiming to provide knowledge for updated recommendations with a view to subsequent clinical implementation.

This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on “Diagnostics and Treatment”