The Cancer Care Engineering (CCE) project focuses on applying system engineering principles to the cancer problem. The initial focus is on colon cancer. The project has two main goals: to identify molecular signatures in blood that are predictive for colon cancer development, progression and treatment response; and to identify the barriers to effective colon cancer prevention strategies (colonoscopies) and optimal care delivery. The project relies heavily on semi-mechanistic mathematical modeling (statistical, population-based and agent-based) using “omic data” obtained from patient blood, medical record data bases from hospitals and clinics, as well as data contained in Indiana government and state-based databases. We have assembled a team of over fifty oncologists, scientists, engineers, statisticians, health services researchers and staff from several institutions to drive the CCE project.
Credits
Joe Pekny
Marietta Harrison
Cite this work
If you reference this work in a publication, please cite as follows:
Pekny, Joseph; Harrison, Marietta (2008), "Cancer Care Engineering : A Collaborative Transformational Project," http://ccehub.org/resources/18.
