Breast cancer represents the first neoplasm for incidence and mortality in women. Several millions of women have been diagnosed or will develop a breast cancer all over the world. Most of these patients are diagnosed and treated outside cancer Centre and managed by non oncologists. 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: a decision support system for the breat cancer chemotherapy. The validation phase within CONQUEST
RUGGIERO, CARMELINA;GIACOMINI, MAURO;
1999-01-01
Abstract
Breast cancer represents the first neoplasm for incidence and mortality in women. Several millions of women have been diagnosed or will develop a breast cancer all over the world. Most of these patients are diagnosed and treated outside cancer Centre and managed by non oncologists. 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 resultsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.