The database design for a decision support system for breast cancer chemotherapy

Author

Ruggiero, Carmelina ; Giacomini, Mauro ; Bondadonna, G. ; Valagussa, P. ; Demicheli, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Comput. & Syst. Sci., Genoa Univ., Italy

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1230

Abstract

Post operative adjuvant chemotherapy of operable breast cancer has rapidly expanded in the past quarter of century. At present adjuvant chemotherapy administration is widely used in clinical practice even by physicians who are not involved full-time in cancer patient care. A decision support system is presented for post operative adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. The system has been implemented in Visual Basic 4, under both Windows 3.x and Windows 95. At present the system relates to breast cancer only, but it is intended to be extended to other kinds of cancer for which chemotherapy is advisable

Keywords

cancer; database management systems; decision support systems; medical expert systems; medical information systems; patient treatment; Visual Basic 4; Windows 3.x; Windows 95; breast cancer chemotherapy; cancer patient care; clinical practice; database design; decision support system; operable breast cancer; post operative adjuvant chemotherapy; Breast cancer; Databases; Decision support systems; Diseases; Hazards; Laboratories; Medical treatment; Protocols; Surgery; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747097

Filename

747097