Toward a Better Paradigm for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment Applying AI (HNC-TACTIC): Protocol for an International Cohort Study of Electronic Health Records

Hisham Mehanna   ¹ , PhD ;   Jacobo Rogado   ² , MD, PhD ;   Alejandro Castro Calvo   ³ , MD ;   Víctor González   ⁴ , MD ;   Francina Aguilar   ⁵ ;   Dorian Culié   ⁶ , MD ;   Álvaro Sanabria   ⁷ , MD ;   Sergio Fabian Zuñiga Pavia   ⁸ , MD ;   Marta Guix   ⁹ , MD ;   Sujith Baliga   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Roland Giger   ¹¹ , MD ;   Sara-Lynn Hool   ¹¹ , MD ;   Olgun Elicin   ¹² , MD ;   Matthaeus Stoehr   ¹³ , MD ;   Ahmad K Abou-Foul   ¹ , MD ;   Melvin L K Chua   ¹⁴ , MD ;   Pablo Parente   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Andreas Dietz   ¹³ , MD ;   John R de Almeida   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Christian Simon   ¹⁷ , MD ;   F Christopher Holsinger   ¹⁸ , MD ;   Robert Ferris   ¹⁹ , MD ;   Raul Giglio   ²⁰ , MD ;   Kate Hutcheson   ²¹ , MD ;   David Casadevall   ²² , MD ;   Miren Taberna   ²² , MD

¹ Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom

² Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain

³ Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

⁴ Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

⁵ Hospital General de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain

⁶ Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Institut Universitaire de la Face et du Cou, Nice, France

⁷ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia-Hospital Alma Mater de Antioquia Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

⁸ Hospital Universitario Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

⁹ Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

¹⁰ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

¹¹ Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

¹² Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

¹³ Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

¹⁴ National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

¹⁵ Hospital Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

¹⁶ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁷ Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

¹⁸ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

¹⁹ UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Hillman Cancer, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

²⁰ Hospital Roffo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

²¹ MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, TX, United States

²² Savana Research, S.L, Madrid, Spain