The Phire Impact
Multi-Sectoral Effetcs
PHIRE's impact spans multiple sectors, such as:
1
Health
Increase quality of life of patients, because drastic reduction of tumor relapse due to the identification and treatment of undetectable and chemoresistant bladder cancer lesions.
2
Social costs
Reduction of costs carry up by the national healthcare systems, due to the reduced number of surgeries, treatments and frequency of follow ups of patients.
3
Environment
Reduction of the amount of anticancer drugs and by-products and toxic waste from nuclear imaging techniques used to monitor for the therapies efficacy in wastewater, due to reduced number of patients requiring chemotherapy
4
Market segments
Increase the market of photoacoustic imaging, nanoparticles, cystoscope, endoscope.
5
Educational
Through open access publications, datasets and metadata, supervision of undergraduate and PhD students and contacts with stakeholders, innovators and scientists in other European consortia.
