Information processing of cancer chemotherapy data

Roswell Park Memorial Institute, one of the largest cancer research and treatment hospitals in the world, conducts an extensive program of cancer chemotheraphy, the use of chemical agents in the treatment of cancer. Roswell Park, acting as the statistical center for participating hospitals throughout the United States, is responsible for implementation, control, and follow-up of several chemotherapy studies. To facilitate the handling of the diverse and extensive amount of data made available by the participants, the architects of these chemotherapy studies found it desirable and necessary to automate as many facets as was feasible. This paper describes the procedures employed in a system which extensively treats medical data.