As Iowa officials drill down on their fight to understand and address high cancer rates in the state, a mapping tool developed by University of Iowa researchers is informing their and other states’ ...

Informatics is currently being used by cancer registrars for case finding and follow-up. In the future, entering data into structured fields in the Electronic Health Record and other initiatives will ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Amy Rolph on Sep 15, ...

A: An opportunity for challenge. In 1994, a job opportunity opened for an oncology abstractor to support the certified tumor registry and cancer registry in cancer case preparation in the hospital ...

After reports flagged Iowa’s high cancer rates, communities across the state are taking action, using local data to address ...

IOWA CITY - Iowa is a national leader in cancer surveillance, and Kathleen McKeen has been there nearly every step of the way. McKeen, 77, of Iowa City, is retiring Sept. 4 as director of the Iowa ...

We created an annotated corpus of tumor morphology and topography mentions consisting of 1,101 documents. We combined it with the CANTEMIST corpus (Cancer Text Mining Shared Task). Specifically, we ...