The Oncology Workbench
Cancer progression in a patient undergoing chemotherapy treatment is an extremely complex phenomenon that affects many levels of human body organisation: the gene level, the cell level, the level of organs and organ formation. This generates a fast growing number of possible protocols for cancer chemotherapy. Given the limited human and financial resources for clinical trials, optimal protocols cannot be determined empirically. Instead, a formal and systematic methodology is necessary for suggesting promising drug schedules that will achieve certain objectives set by the clinician.
A Problem Solving Environment is a computational system that provides a complete and convenient set of high level tools for solving the problems from a specific domain. Researchers at The Robert Gordon University have used PSE to create The Oncology Workbench, the main components of which consist of the Treatment Editor, Results Viewer, Simulation & Optimisations Engines and Information Repository. Key Benefits
- Allows treatment parameters to be set in a straight forward manner
- Suggests and/or evaluates possible treatment strategies
- Presents an evaluation of likely treatment outcome in a manner which is readily comprehensible to the user and which has direct medical significance
- Other smart PSE's can be built to provide medical decision support in other problem domains (e.g. a diabetes management system, telemedicine and e-health applications)
Applications
- It can be used as a tool to describe to patients their regime
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