Tamara and Betsy have given us some more input to chew on; see ticket/32#comment:8<http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/32#comment:8>, including:
The key variables (in addition to age and sex) that would be needed to identify potential patients for almost any trial are: * Breast cancer diagnosis (and date of first diagnosis within a date span) * Hormone receptor status (ER/PR) * Stage If room for one more, add to that type of primary breast surgery (lumpectomy/mastectomy/missing) They've also given some detailed input on an exercise for the hackathon. Any volunteers to move the ball forward in the mean time? Feel free to accept the ticket in trac or just note any progress here in email. -- Dan ________________________________ From: Dan Connolly Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:48 PM To: Tamara McMahon; Chrischilles, Elizabeth A Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: NAACCR data (and breast cancer data elements) Russ reminds me that Table 6.1 of the GPC proposal<http://frontiersresearch.org/frontiers/sites/default/files/frontiers/documents/GPC-PCORI-CDRN-Research-Plan-Template-KUMCv44.pdf> already has a pretty good sketch of breast cancer data elements and such: ...
