Cancer Care Coordination Study
Coordination capacity in cancer care teams.
A gap that remains unmeasured globally.
What this study addresses
AI tools for cancer care are being built on an assumption that doesn't hold: one professional, one tool, one decision.
Cancer care doesn't work that way. An oncologist, a surgeon, a nurse, a radiologist, a pathologist — all coordinating around the same AI output to reach a shared decision. The coordination layer that makes that work — or doesn't — has never been systematically measured.
At a recent ECO/EONS roundtable on AI in cancer care, we rose this question: what framework exists for the coordination layer?
Twelve seconds of silence. Then the honest answer: none. This is not a European problem. It is a global one. This study begins to build that evidence.
What the study maps
This study is open to cancer care professionals worldwide. We are driving initial participation through European oncology networks, and actively encourage responses from professionals in any country.
It measures coordination capacity in cancer care across six dimensions, grounded in 69+ peer-reviewed studies.
The six dimensions:
• Clinical Integration
• Communication Clarity
• Decision Efficiency
• Role Clarity
• Psychological Safety
• Adaptive Capacity
Your responses contribute to the first systematic picture of where cancer care teams stand on each dimension — and where the critical gaps are.
Why this matters
Coordination problems in cancer care repeat across institutions and countries. They are structural gaps — not individual failures. No evidence base currently names them as such.
AI implementation does not fix coordination. It amplifies it — accelerating both what works and what doesn't. The case for measuring the coordination layer before AI scales further is straightforward.
Findings will be submitted to EONS / ESMO Congress 2026 and prepared for peer-reviewed publication. If you complete this survey, you are contributing to that evidence base.
"There is no systematic framework for measuring coordination capacity in cancer care teams. The gap is real and it needs to be addressed."
— Senior oncologist, ECO / EONS AI Roundtable, March 2026
What the survey involves
6–8 minutes. 22 questions. No clinical data, no patient information.
Your responses are stored separately from any identifying information. Anonymized results will only be published in aggregate. You will receive the findings when analysis is complete.
About this research
Conducted by Nexus Recognita. Findings will be submitted to EONS / ESMO Congress 2026 as a Late-Breaking Abstract (skeleton due May 12, 2026; full submission September 8, 2026). A peer-reviewed publication is planned for later in 2026.
✉️ Research enquiries: research@nexusrecognita.com
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