Oct 15
Within the National Cancer Institute (NCI), there is new potential for an increasingly beneficial collaboration between the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) and the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) in the Office of the Director. The Institute’s recent launch of the National Cancer Informatics …
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Aug 15
Those of us working in biomedical informatics are well aware that one of our omnipresent challenges is overcoming the disparity between our capacity to use high-throughput research technologies to produce huge quantities of data, which is now very high, and our practical ability to store, aggregate, analyze, and integrate the resulting mountains of heterogeneous …
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Aug 03
The NCI-supported Cooperative Groups conduct national- and international-scale multicenter clinical trials. They face escalating computational challenges as the amount of clinical trials data generated by a multiplicity of research technologies and clinical observations continues to expand. As part of our ongoing Speaker Series, we recently invited Dr. Ying Xiao to discuss informatics initiatives being undertaken …
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Jul 17
These are exciting times for cancer research. The rapid evolution and decreasing cost of omics technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to improve individual patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. To fully realize this goal, however, requires integrating and analyzing data from the laboratory and the clinic in a way that is meaningful and useful to health-care providers. …
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Jun 28
Welcome to the new NCIP blog, and thank you for reading our inaugural post. We plan to use this platform to share information with the community, patient advocates, scientists, and our internal team. Additionally, we hope to collaborate informally and brainstorm toward real research solutions. This blog reflects NCIP’s research interests, priorities, and initiatives, and …
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