A multipurpose TNM stage ontology for cancer registries.

Nicholas Charles NicholsonFrancesco GiustiManola BettioRaquel Negrao CarvalhoNadya DimitrovaTadeusz DybaManuela FlegoLuciana NeamtiuGiorgia RandiCarmen Martos

Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics (2022)

The unified ontology provides a multi-purpose tool for TNM-related tasks in a cancer registry and is scalable for different editions of TNM. It offers a convenient way of quickly checking validity of cancer case stage information and for batch processing of multi-record data via a dedicated front-end programme. The ontology is adaptable to many uses, either as a standalone TNM module or as a component in applications of wider focus. It provides a first step towards a single, unified TNM ontology for cancer registries.

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