Oncology Informatics Glossary

Large-scale storage repository that holds vast amounts of structured and unstructured cancer-related data in its native...

Software platform designed to collect, manage, and validate clinical trial data according to regulatory standards.

A centralized repository that integrates clinical data from multiple healthcare systems and sources to support cancer re...

Health information technology that provides clinicians with cancer-specific assessments and evidence-based recommendatio...

The process of systematically identifying and connecting cancer patients with appropriate research studies based on thei...

The systematic assignment of clinical significance levels to genetic variants based on evidence criteria.

Commission on Cancer accreditation standards for hospital cancer programs and registry operations.

An FDA-approved test required to identify patients eligible for specific targeted cancer therapies.

Disappearance of all detectable disease following cancer treatment, as defined by specific imaging and clinical criteria...

Genomic alterations involving the duplication or deletion of DNA segments in cancer cells.

The Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer, a comprehensive database of cancer-associated genetic variants.

Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events - NCI standard for grading adverse events in cancer clinical trials.

Clinical Trial Management System used to manage the operational aspects of clinical trials including patient enrollment,...

International standard for medical imaging data storage, transmission, and display, essential for oncology imaging workf...

Time from treatment completion or surgical resection until cancer recurrence or death, commonly used in adjuvant therapy...

Standardized scale from 0-5 measuring a cancer patient's functional capacity and ability to perform daily activities.

Electronic Case Report Form, a digital data collection instrument used in clinical trials to capture patient information...

Electronic patient-reported outcome tools that capture symptoms, quality of life, and functional status directly from ca...

Guidelines for making scientific data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, particularly important in oncol...

Machine learning approach that enables model training across distributed datasets without centralizing patient data, imp...

Targeted genetic testing that analyzes multiple cancer-related genes simultaneously to guide precision oncology treatmen...

A genetic variation present in inherited DNA from parents, found in all cells of the body.

Health Level Seven Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources - a standard for health information exchange in oncology s...

A genetic alteration occurring at a genomic position with high mutation frequency across multiple cancer types or patien...