Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics

• Cancer diagnosis proposal was revisited with a demo from Christian Reich via mapping SNOMED à NCI Metathesaurus à ICD-O per suggestions from Iker.

the full list of SNOMED codes that are descendants of “Malignant Neoplastic Disease”, and their crosswalk to NCI codes through UMLS.

Forum discussion

• Michael Gurley will generate the list of valid site/histology combinations based on the SEER validation list and then attempt to query the NCI Metathesaurus to find a SNOMED code for each combination – using Iker's suggestions.
• Mitra Rocca and Guoqian Jiang to contact NCI team on their current efforts.
• Identifying of treatment episodes and treatment regimens in EMR and consequently in the OMOP CDM is a challenge. Literature review will be helpful. Looking for volunteers.
• Treatment regimens are better structured in tumor registries