Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine: A Use-Case with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Berliner, Leonard; Lemke, Heinz U.

This book explores how PPPM, clinical practice, and basic research could be best served by information technology (IT). A use-case was developed for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The subject was approached with four interrelated tasks: (1) review of clinical practices relating to HCC; (2) propose an IT system relating to HCC, including clinical decision support and research needs; (3) determine how a clinical liver cancer center can contribute; and, (4) examine the enhancements and impact that the first three tasks will have on the management of HCC. An IT System for Personalized Medicine (ITS-PM) for HCC will provide the means to identify and determine the relative value of the wide number of variables, including clinical assessment of the patient -- functional status, liver function, degree of cirrhosis, and comorbidities; tumor biology, at a molecular, genetic and anatomic level; tumor burden and individual patient response; medical and operative treatments and their outcomes.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2016-10-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319384344

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12166-6

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 130