Oncology Informatics Glossary

A genetic alteration for which targeted therapy options or clinical trials are available.

Unfavorable medical occurrence in a cancer patient during treatment, requiring systematic documentation and severity gra...

American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system - the gold standard for cancer staging and prognosis.

Automated computational logic that determines cancer stage classification based on tumor characteristics and anatomical...

The proportion of sequencing reads containing a variant allele at a specific genomic position in tumor tissue.

Measurable biological indicator used to assess cancer diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment response in clinical informatic...

A comprehensive database containing genomic, transcriptomic, and clinical data from thousands of cancer patients.

Specialized field applying computational methods to cancer imaging data for enhanced diagnosis, treatment planning, and...

A structured workflow that processes cancer data from raw input through analysis to clinical insights.

A healthcare informatics professional with specialized expertise in managing, analyzing, and interpreting cancer-related...

Data analysis methods that examine patient treatment journeys and care patterns across the cancer continuum from diagnos...

Computational approach to modeling, analyzing, and optimizing cancer care delivery workflows and clinical decision pathw...

Centralized database containing standardized metrics and algorithms for assessing cancer care quality across healthcare...

A healthcare professional trained to systematically extract and code cancer-related data from medical records for popula...

Computational discipline focused on systematic collection, analysis, and reporting of cancer incidence and outcome data...

Standardized reporting templates developed by the College of American Pathologists to ensure comprehensive and consisten...

The systematic process of identifying and confirming cancer cases within a defined population for inclusion in cancer su...

Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization - CDISC standard for case report form design in oncology trials.

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Operational Data Model, a vendor-neutral format for exchanging and archiv...

Specialized clinical decision support component that provides treatment recommendations and drug interaction alerts spec...

Specialized software platform that validates cancer treatment orders against safety parameters, dosing protocols, and pa...

Cell-free DNA fragments shed by tumors into the bloodstream, detectable through liquid biopsy techniques.

Systematic process of extracting structured oncology data elements from medical records for research, registry reporting...

Process of standardizing data elements, terminologies, and formats across different oncology systems to enable consisten...