Breast is the neoplasm with highest incidence and mortality in women. All over the world several millions of women have been diagnosed or will develop a breast cancer. In many cases these patients are treated in general hospitals by general clinicians, rather than by oncologists in Cancer Centers. Prescription of inadequate therapy may allow reduced patients survival or disease control. We present a decision support system for individualized prescription of post surgery therapy in breast cancer patients based on patient’s characteristic and tumor biology and extention. As a first set of validation cases we considered 20 patients whose medical records are stored at the National Cancer Institute of Genova, these patient were all treated with radical mastectomy, with satisfactory results.
BREASTCAN: the chemotherapy tool of CONQUEST
RUGGIERO, CARMELINA;GIACOMINI, MAURO;
1999-01-01
Abstract
Breast is the neoplasm with highest incidence and mortality in women. All over the world several millions of women have been diagnosed or will develop a breast cancer. In many cases these patients are treated in general hospitals by general clinicians, rather than by oncologists in Cancer Centers. Prescription of inadequate therapy may allow reduced patients survival or disease control. We present a decision support system for individualized prescription of post surgery therapy in breast cancer patients based on patient’s characteristic and tumor biology and extention. As a first set of validation cases we considered 20 patients whose medical records are stored at the National Cancer Institute of Genova, these patient were all treated with radical mastectomy, with satisfactory results.
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