SBIR/STTR Research Award
Precise Breast Cancer Staging with An Expert System
Award amount
$75,990Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1995Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Oncometrics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
An expert system has been developed by OncoMetrics that provides a disease free survival prognosisbreast cancer patients. It has been used as an informational service that has been commercially avaiThree hundred individual patient reports care requested each month by treating physicians in the USPhysicians use the expert system to help in making treatment decisions and to counsel patients. Survpart of the development of the expert system. However, survival data do not have clean end points cosurvival data. The initial goal is to develop an improved expert system using only disease free survavailable. The longer range goal is to develop an expert system to improve therapy. International BrGroup clinical trial VI is underway involving 1400 patients. The protocol was designed in large partOncoMetrics' computer model studies. Our analysis of five year data suggest that treatments based onmore effective than conventional treatments. However, trial statisticians wants to wait for further
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