Project description
Modelling fracture risk in cancer patients
Bone metastasis is a frequent phenomenon in many types of cancer responsible for severe pain, bone fractures and deterioration in the patients' quality of life. The extent of bone damage due to cancer metastasis is currently assessed through quantitative computed tomography (QCT), an approach that lacks sensitivity and specificity. To overcome these limitations, the EU-funded METABONE project is developing a novel modelling methodology capable of predicting the risk of fractures in metastatic femurs. The approach combines experimental and numerical data, and is expected to serve as a more accurate tool for oncologists to decide on locomotor strategies in cancer patients.
Objective
Osteolytic bone metastases are responsible for long bone fracture leading to restricted mobility, surgery, or medullar compression that severely alter quality of life and have a huge socio-economic impact. Current fragility scores to estimate the fracture risk in patients with metastatic femur are based on qualitative evaluation from Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT) scans and lack sensitivity and specificity. Efforts are now made towards the development of patient-specific finite element models to assess the strength of tumoral bone segments, but their accuracy is hampered by several limitations, including limited knowledge of metastatic bone mechanical properties, simulations performed only for single stance loading condition, and simulations providing a global failure criteria. The aim of METABONE is, therefore, to use a novel approach to better predict the fracture risk of metastatic femur. A patient-specific finite element model will be developed based on QCT scans, which will include the real material properties of ex vivo human metastatic bone determined experimentally in the first part of the project. The composition and mechanical behaviour of diseased bone tissue are hypothesised to be rather different from healthy tissue and influential of femoral strength. This model will be used clinically on patients with osteolytic lesions located in proximal femur to assess the fracture risk during daily life activities, using a local failure criteria and a range of different loading conditions. This novel methodology, combining experimental and numerical approaches, is expected to significantly improve the accuracy of fracture risk prediction. Successful completion of METABONE will have the potential to guide clinical decision making, by providing clinicians with a more accurate tool to optimize locomotor strategy and oncology program, in order to prevent bone fracture, improve survival and quality of life of the patients.
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- medical and health sciences clinical medicine surgery
- engineering and technology medical engineering diagnostic imaging computed tomography
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
France
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