About

CureCancer is a patient-centric and fully patient-driven platform, which provides real-world and real-time accurate patient data and communication with physician, from a distance, upon patient’s request. CureCancer increases the success of cancer therapy, maintains patients' quality of life, and reduces cost. It increases the accuracy of the results of clinical trial results, with a positive impact on drug development, economic models and health policy. It has created a holistic environment for patients to search for and communicate with health professionals, and to find their health products.

Solution & Product

CureCancer is a way to facilitate early supportive care to cancer patients to increase cancer therapy success and reduce cancer economic burden. It is a patient-centered and patient-driven platform.
Patients self-record their medical history and exams, having direct access to them. They keep track of their therapies, medications, and appointments and self-record 100% of their symptoms, in real-time.
Patients share their data with physicians and may have a video call with their physician, through the CureCancer telemedicine feature. They can also book a physical appointment. Unnecessary visits to hospital or outpatient clinic and travel costs can be avoided. As patients noted, using CureCancer, saved them time and money, had better communication with their physicians, felt safe and protected themselves and their families from contacting the COVID-19.
Patients can also complete symptom-based questionnaires to increase the accuracy of clinical trial results. CureCancer can provide information to assist in healthcare policy decisions.

Innovation & Scalability

CureCancer digital platform allows patients to self-record 100% of their symptoms (PROs), communicate with physicians, “real-world and real-time” and receive early and effective care, based on AI technology. With CureCancer’s telemedicine feature patients interact with physicians when they need to, from a distance.
CureCancer can reduce cancer costs by 33% which translates to €46.7 billion savings in Europe per year.
PROs also increase the accuracy of clinical trial results, with a positive impact on drug development, economic models and health policy.
CureCancer’s innovation is a patient-centric and fully patient-driven platform, which provides real-world and real-time accurate patient data and communication with physician, from distance, upon patient’s request. Our competitors offer some of the above digital services, but lack in one area or another (e.g. one has patient self-reporting symptoms, but cannot be shared with physician; another has symptom tracking shared with physician but no video-call capability). Our beachhead market is Greece, with 73 cancer clinics, about 2,000 cancer HCPs, 67,000 new cancer patients and 500,000 survivors. HCPs would pay the annual fee to access their patients’ files and communicate with them.
Hospitals would pay the annual fee to provide CureCancer tool to their HCPs. Research organizations would pay per project to organize clinical trials. we expect a profit of 1,200,000 in 3 years.

Traction & achievements

2015: CureCancer was inspired during our routine practice with cancer patients, realizing the need for a digital solution for their best supportive care . 2016: CureCancer was founded and in 2018 was functional.
2019:
• Athens Incubator endorsed CureCancer innovative tool.
• Contract for the feasibility study was signed with HeSMO.
• CureCancer was endorsed by HeSMO, Radiation Oncology, Nurses Association, Patients Association and Archimedes, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
2020:
• Feasibility results were presented at ESMO Meeting.
• CureCancer was invited to present its use and benefits at Athens Cancer Meeting and at Web Summit.
• Today, we have about 360 patients and 386 physicians. CureCancer is at the final stage for the approval of the collaboration with Attikon Hospital, General Hospital of Larissa, and hopefully with other hospitals through the SymbIASIS program. •CureCancer has presented its use and benefits to several scientific meetings and to the public. •CureCancer has been invited to deliver educational seminars to physicians and several medical associations, such as the Head and Neck Cancer Society, Medical Oncology societies, Nursing Oncology. •CureCancer has organized educational seminars to dentists, under the auspices of the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology. •24 different healthcare specialties from 60 districts of Greece and 120 healthcare stores participate in CureCancer's platform.

Team & Why Us

Our Team:
Founders: Dimitra Galiti, Dentist, Dental Oncologist, graduate from University of Athens, Connecticut, USA, and Leuven, Belgium, works with cancer patients since 2010. Team role: Dimitra supervises the Platform.

Ourania Nicolatou-Galitis, Oral Oncologist, Professor, founder of Oral Oncology in Greece, succeeding a 48 million drachmas grant and member of International Expert Groups. Ourania works with cancer patients since 2005,Team role: She is the scientific responsible and key person for our relations with Oncologists.

Associates:
Melina Tsiri, Director of Communication and Development, works with CureCancer in Social Media, communication with users and the developers. Stelios Kostopoulos- developer. Ioannis Nikolakopoulos - digital marketing, SEO. Vasiliki Lotsiou - Communications, Administrative support Irene Volitaki - Communications, Administrative support Vasiliki Makri - Communications, Administrative support Why Us? We expect that CureCancer will be adopted by cancer hospitals all over Greece. We are in discussions with research centers to support their clinical trials. CureCancer is focused on oncology and it is the only fully patient-driven platform which provides real-world and real-time accurate patient data. We are global experts on cancer supportive care which is the principal mission of the tool.

Funding Needs

We need investors to develop and enhance the immense potential of CureCancer and complement its function, with AI, developing: (1) the app, (2) a chatbot, (3) a tool to predict the oral complications that are specific and related to almost all types of cancer therapy and motivate patient to self-recognize them, report and self-manage or ask medical support, (4) develop a marketplace for healthcare products. We need investors to help with our operational costs in order to expand our services and reach. We expect to meet these needs with 300,000 Euro.