Informatics is currently being used by cancer registrars for case finding and follow-up. In the future, entering data into structured fields in the Electronic Health Record and other initiatives will ...

A: An opportunity for challenge. In 1994, a job opportunity opened for an oncology abstractor to support the certified tumor registry and cancer registry in cancer case preparation in the hospital ...

The cancer registry team is responsible for collecting and coding detailed information related to clinical diagnosis/workup, stage of disease, treatment, and survivorship from patients’ medical ...

We created an annotated corpus of tumor morphology and topography mentions consisting of 1,101 documents. We combined it with the CANTEMIST corpus (Cancer Text Mining Shared Task). Specifically, we ...

Computational skills are increasingly important in nearly all fields of biomedical research at the Hutch and beyond. Coding for Cancer connects students with computational biologists, teaches hands-on ...

What This Means for You Firefighters: More than 40,000 firefighters have enrolled in a national cancer registry studying job-related cancer risks; enrollment remains open nationwide. Consumers: ...

IOWA CITY - Iowa is a national leader in cancer surveillance, and Kathleen McKeen has been there nearly every step of the way. McKeen, 77, of Iowa City, is retiring Sept. 4 as director of the Iowa ...