Diagnosis

Implement best practices in circulating tumour DNA and liquid biopsy profiling across Europe by joining Task 7.1 with a pragmatic, learn-by-doing pilot. This will allow countries with less mature infrastructure and capabilities to perform circulating tumour DNA profiling to learn from those leading this development in a co-creational pilot.

Prepare expert communities for the rollout of promising technologies such as whole genome sequencing, digital pathology, and functional diagnostics. Perform a horizon scanning of emerging technologies and identify processes to integrate them into cancer care.

Currently, the lack of standardised meta-data vocabularies causes fragmentation, reducing the FAIRness of data. For future diagnostics, we need to link electronic health record data with experimental and bioinformatic analyses using international standards like openEHR, FIHR, and OMOP. Both healthcare providers and researchers must adopt these standards and connect data platforms for genomics and clinical imaging.

Prepare a framework to roll out innovative practices towards an observational diagnostic testing platform.