The Digital Cancer Research team investigates how innovative technologies, including digital and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, can help doctors and patients make decisions in cancer care and allow patients to be partners in their own cancer research. Digital and AI tools include things like smartphone apps, computer programmes, and data visualisation tools that present patient information in an easily understandable and usable way.
Our projects include research on:
We are a multi-disciplinary team with the clinical and technical skills needed to design, build and test new digital and AI tools to solve challenges in cancer care, while keeping patient data safe and secure.
DCR is led by Dr Harriet Unsworth and has 3 sub-teams:
DCR began in 2016 as the digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (dECMT), with funding from AstraZeneca. Our current funders include CRUK, EU Horizons 2020, and the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. The research we do is enabled through our close collaborations with the Christie Hospital, across the University of Manchester, the UpSMART collaborator network, and the patients who have shared their data with us and helped guide our research.