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- Title
Breast cancer therapy planning - a novel support concept for a sequential decision making problem.
- Authors
Scherrer, Alexander; Schwidde, Ilka; Dinges, Andreas; Rüdiger, Patrick; Kümmel, Sherko; Küfer, Karl-Heinz
- Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common carcinosis with the largest number of mortalities in women. Its therapy comprises a wide spectrum of different treatment modalities a breast oncologist decides about for the individual patient case. These decisions happen according to medical guide lines, current scientific publications and experiences acquired in former cases. Clinical decision making therefore involves the time-consuming search for possible therapy options and their thorough testing for applicability to the current patient case.This research work addresses breast cancer therapy planning as a multi-criteria sequential decision making problem. The approach is based on a data model for patient cases with therapy descriptions and a mathematical notion for therapeutic relevance of medical information. This formulation allows for a novel decision support concept, which targets at eliminating observed weaknesses in clinical routine of breast cancer therapy planning.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer treatment; MEDICAL decision making; CARCINOSARCOMAS; WOMEN'S mortality; SPECTRUM analysis; ONCOLOGISTS; MEDICAL informatics
- Publication
Health Care Management Science, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 3, p389
- ISSN
1386-9620
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10729-014-9302-2