Building a collaboration to improve surgical research through EORTC/ESSO 1409-CLIMB study: A prospective liver metastasis database with an integrated quality assurance program

Carmela Caballero; Susen Burock; Lucia Carrion-Alvarez; Henrik Nilsson; Theo Ruers; Perrine Senellart; Michel Rivoire; Stefan Stattner; Florian Primavesi; Roberto Troisi; Thomas Gruenberger; Jan Heil; Andreas A Schnitzbauer; Nuh N Rahbari; Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg; Hassan Malik; Mladjan Protic; Kozo Kataoka; Murielle Mauer; Michel Ducreux; Graeme Poston; Serge Evrard

doi:10.1016/j.ejso.2019.05.028

Building a collaboration to improve surgical research through EORTC/ESSO 1409-CLIMB study: A prospective liver metastasis database with an integrated quality assurance program

Eur J Surg Oncol. 2019 Oct;45(10):1870-1875. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2019.05.028. Epub 2019 May 30.

Authors

Carmela Caballero¹, Susen Burock², Lucia Carrion-Alvarez³, Henrik Nilsson⁴, Theo Ruers⁵, Perrine Senellart⁶, Michel Rivoire⁶, Stefan Stattner⁷, Florian Primavesi⁷, Roberto Troisi⁸, Thomas Gruenberger⁹, Jan Heil¹⁰, Andreas A Schnitzbauer¹⁰, Nuh N Rahbari¹¹, Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg¹², Hassan Malik¹³, Mladjan Protic¹⁴, Kozo Kataoka¹⁵, Murielle Mauer¹⁶, Michel Ducreux¹⁷, Graeme Poston¹³, Serge Evrard¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ ESSO Clinical Research Committee, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, Berlin, Germany.
³ Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Sciences Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁶ Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
⁷ Department of Visceral, Transplantation and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁸ Dept. of General HPB and Liver Transplantation Surgery, Ghent University Hospital Medical School, Ghent, Belgium.
⁹ Social Medical Center South, HPB Center Vienna Clincs, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁰ Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
¹¹ Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
¹² Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹³ Aintree University Hospital NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Universty of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad, Serbia.
¹⁵ Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
¹⁶ EORTC, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁷ Gustave Roussy, Université Paris Saclay, Villejuif, France.
¹⁸ Institut Bergonié, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

PMID: 31171479
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2019.05.028

Abstract

The challenges of conducting surgical oncology trials have resulted to low quantity and poor quality research [1,2]. Considering the definitive role of surgery to offer cure, immediate response to improve surgical research is needed [3]. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) share the vision to achieve excellent surgical research and care for cancer patients. Building on their complimentary expertise, they embarked on a pilot project to map out challenges and initiate a sustainable collaboration to advance cancer surgery research in Europe. This pilot project is EORTC-ESSO 1409 GITCG/ ESSO-01: A Prospective Colorectal Liver Metastasis Database with an Integrated Quality Assurance Program (CLIMB). This article will describe the challenges, milestones and vision of both organizations in setting up this collaboration.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / methods*
Data Management
Europe / epidemiology
Humans
Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis
Liver Neoplasms / epidemiology
Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
Morbidity
Neoplasm Metastasis
Program Evaluation
Prospective Studies
Quality Assurance, Health Care / methods*
Surgical Oncology*