The CSA 4.UNCAN.eu deliverable is a blueprint for UNCAN.eu initiative. The global ambition of UNCAN.eu initiative is to achieve the next breakthrough needed to advance the understanding of cancer mechanisms in order to improve cancer prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, providing a basis for saving millions of European citizens’ lives.

The blueprint for UNCAN.eu will propose to set up a European Federated Cancer Research data hub and to generate a series of use cases, addressing major challenges in cancer research. These ambitious and innovative, but realistic and focussed, use cases will be cross-border and trans-disciplinary research programmes built in a problem-solving manner. Results of these use cases will feed the Cancer Research data hub with findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable (FAIR) cancer research data.

These research data will be combined with patient health and any other relevant data (e.g., from longitudinal cohorts, geographical observations, consumer and lifestyle data) at an unprecedented scale.  UNCAN.eu that will bring all relevant players and information together, based on existing efforts in Europe and beyond.

A key expected outcome is that the new understanding gained from the analysis of this wealth of data could be applied to other diseases beyond cancer.