Establishment of a Three-Tier Dynamic Cancer Registration Analysis System with an Example for Breast Cancer

Abstract

Objective In recent years, with the advancement of medical technologies, many cancers are no longer frightening and incurable. With the development of medical treatments, many therapies can be applied to prolong the life of cancer sufferers. Due to the increasing complexity of cancerous dis eases, a patient can no longer be treated as a single, special case in cancer registration management. This study aims to establish an integrated platform to facilitate data collection, and further provide immediate information for cancer evaluation and treatment. Materials and Methods A dynamic website was linked to an information bank. The cancer management system was developed as a web service on Microsoft Visual Studio ASP.NET and the back-end database was built upon Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Results The three-tier dynamic website includes “operational interaction”, “user and data selection” and “convenient management”. The web content can change according to the user's needs or selections, and provide different information for different users at different times. Case managers can use the integrated function to transfer the patient's basic data into the cancer management system. Therefore, this integrated platform allows easy acquisition of all kinds of real-time information and instant reports. In this paper, we give a fabled example of breast cancer registration. Conclusion Tracking patients and information collection can be more effective via the integrated platform. The registered cancer cases can also be statistically analyzed and the data applied to the investigation of variables in clinical treatments so that doctors will be able to provide patients with the best medical advice.