Traditional Chinese Medicine data mining: Associating clinical cancer case studies with Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies

TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is a wonderfully working, yet somewhat mysterious, healthcare system. Without involving the difficult I-Ching and Yin-yang principles, we develop a data mining approach to TCM by associating clinical cancer case studies with TCM therapies, both herbal doses and other methods. Thus, a scientific methodology is proposed for TCM, not only for cancer cases but also other diseases. Our first task is to collect a significant number of cancer case studies to generate a data set for various data mining schemes. We report here the construction of the database - ACCDB (Associated Cancer Case Data Base).