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REBECCA: A Revolutionary App for Personalised Breast Cancer Treatment and Management

Breast cancer patients often face numerous challenges throughout their treatment journey and can feel overwhelmed. It is an emotional roller coaster, filled with medical appointments and endless treatments. In recent years, the development of various mobile applications has aimed to support breas...

Dragonnet model for causal analysis of real-world data

Over the past few years, the scientific community has been heavily investing into causal inference to draw causal conclusions based on real-world data (RWD) , with a particular focus on electronic health records (EHRs), biobank data, registries, and wearable devices. In the REBECCA project, resea...

Stakeholder Workshop in Norway: Insights and Feedback on Integrating the REBECCA System into Clinical Settings

In March 2023 REBECCA hosted a stakeholder workshop in Norway to gather feedback from clinical and non-clinical actors on what their needs and challenges would be if they wanted to integrate the REBECCA system into clinical settings. Two expert teams assessed the system's impact on patient engage...

Revolutionising Breast Cancer Care: How health managers can leverage REBECCA to improve patient outcomes

In the field of breast cancer care, REBECCA is a groundbreaking project that has the potential to revolutionalise the way we approach clinical research and patient care. Healthcare managers strive to procure the necessary tools, create the conditions and build the most optimal processes for the b...

Revolutionising Clinical Studies: The REBECCA 360° Solution to Accurate and Explainable Quality of Life Monitoring

Understanding patients' Quality of Life (QoL) is a pivotal aspect of healthcare research, intricately linked to their daily behaviour, physical condition, and emotional well-being. However, capturing these elements objectively has always been a challenge. Medical and pharmaceutical interventions ...

Enhancing Patient Care: How REBECCA Plugin Helps Uncover Insights into Breast Cancer Patients’ Emotional Well-being from Online Activity

Breast cancer patients and survivors face not only physical challenges but also mental health issues during and after their treatments that can impact their recovery and quality of life. At REBECCA, we believe that it is essential to understand and address these challenges, which is why we h...

Revolutionising Cancer Care: the REBECCA App Aims to Improve Patients’ Quality of Life and Communication with Doctors

The Stavanger University Hospital (SUH) together with the Cancer Society in Rogaland County, Norway, organised a meeting with breast and prostate cancer patients to promote the REBECCA system and explain how personalised treatment plans based on real-world data collection can address the com...

Stavanger HF successfully recruited participants to two of the REBECCA studies using hospital intranet.

Breast cancer is a life-changing diagnosis that affects many women across the world. The REBECCA project aims at improving the quality of life for breast cancer patients by conducting multiple studies and combining data from different sources. The Stavanger University Hospital's intranet, Pulsen,...

Towards better stakeholder engagement: looking back to the World Cancer Day 2023 results

This year’s World Cancer Day campaign with a catchy slogan “Close The Care Gap” among other things, provided an in-depth look at the socioeconomic factors, such as cultural contexts, gender norms, income and education levels, as well as the prejudices, discrimination and assumptions based on age,...

World Cancer Day 2023 is approaching! The REBECCA Project Team is Excited to Support the Cause!

Cancer is a devastating disease that continues to impact the lives of millions of people across the globe. Although cancer can be treated and managed, many patients and their loved ones often feel overwhelmed in the aftermath of such a diagnosis. Cancer treatments can be a long and challenging jo...