Triple Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer (TNmBC) affects 5,000 young women each year in Spain. However, it remains ignored by the society, politicians and decision-makers.

While other European countries it takes 180 days to approve new drugs against TNmBC, in Spain it takes 500 days. Why? Because the Spanish National System prefers to fund drugs for diseases with a better prognosis. This causes thousands of patients with terminal diseases to die waiting for treatment. Despite the hopeless situation, patients do not lose their hope to change it.

Gilead wanted to launch a new drug against TNmBC to change patient's situation. But first, Gilead needed to change the law.

That is why we launched Paintings of Hope, to show politicians through real data collected from patients and then transformed into art the reality of TNmBC, making decision-makers and politicians see that they're part of the problem, but also part of the solution.

Triple Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer (TNmBC) affects 5,000 young women each year in Spain and 85% of them will die soon if they don't receive a treatment right after diagnosis.

The problem is that in Spain, the law takes up to 500 days to approves the access to new drugs against TNmBC. Why? Because the Spanish National Health System prefers to fund drugs for diseases with a better prognosis, meaning that thousands of TNmBC patients die every year waiting for treatment. Despite the hopeless situation, patients do not lose their hope to change the law to have a faster access to new drugs.

That is why we launched Paintings of Hope, to show politicians and decision-makers through data extracted from patients and transformed into art the reality of TNmBC and make decision-makers as well as politicians see that they are part of the problem, but also part of the solution.

Paintings of Hope transformed the feelings of three TNmBC patients into art thanks to AI, voice analytics and robotics, changing patients situations and helping to modify the law. Patient now, thanks to the campaign, have a faster access to a treatment for their condition.

Three patients were interviewed about the unfair situation of their condition in Spain to collect data about TNmBC. We camptured their feeling from their voices during the interviews and transformed them into coded data thanks to a voice analytics software. Then, the coded data was sent to a robot trained to interpret it and transform it into art.

Paintings of Hope is a nine canvases collection that was exhibit in hospitals, public places and even The Spanish Parliament, showing to society and politicians the real data of TNmBC in a way that everybody empathized with and mobilized people to change the law for 180 days.

The numbers and statistics are there: 5000 young women are diagnosed every year in Spain and the 85% will die after diagnosis if they don't receive a treatment immediately.

But this data is very tough. That is why nobody, not even politicians a decision-makers, want to see. And for the same reason the situation of TNmBC patients didn't change until Paintings of Hope was lunched.

We gathered real data from patients’ testimonies and extracted their feelings thanks to voice analytics. The feelings were transformed into data and interpreted by a robot trained to interpret and convert them into art.

The collection was exhibited in hospitals, medical congresses, transportation hubs and in The Spanish Parliament, where politicians and decision-makers this time had to see frontally the reality of the patients. This was key, because thanks to the exhibition in The Parliament, politicians change the law to 180 days access.

Paintings of Hope collected real data of TNmBC patient's situation in Spain by using a voice analysis software to analyze the testimonies of three patients and then transformed that data into an art collection. All thanks to a robot trained during six months to be able to convert pure data into emotional and beautiful art.

Paintings of Hope is compound by nine canvases that reflected the journey of the patients throw their condition and the urgent necessity of the patients to the law be changed so they can have a faster access to new drugs.

Paintings of Hope toured around Spain being exhibited in Hospitals, medical congresses and even made to the Spanish Parliament where finally the politicians look frontally the reality of TNmBC and change the law to guarantee a 180 days access to treatment for these women.

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But the most important result is that after the launch of Paintings of Hope, the change happened, and the hope returned to patients when The Spanish Parliament approved a 180-day access to drugs for TNmBC.

The change of the law supposed for Gilead that finally could launch a new drug and reach faster to these women. Today, thousands of them are being treated with Gilead's drug and their life expectancy is now better and longer than before Paintings of Hope.

The needs of TNmBC patients in Spain are very different from those in other countries as there were no treatments available to address their pathology. In contrast, in other regions, these medicines are accessible to all patients in only 180 days.

It is this situation of inequality that has led to the development of Paintings of Hoe to vindicate the neglect of this cancer in Spain and how innovation is the great hope for patients to transform their reality and change the law for a faster access to treatment.

Today, thanks to Paintings of Hope, metastatic triple negative breast cancer patients have a new law that has transformed their lives and, also, that of their environment and that of the medical-scientific community.