A text-mining approach to obtain detailed treatment information from free-text fields in population-based cancer registries: A study of non-small cell lung cancer in California.

<h4>Background</h4>Population-based cancer registries have treatment information for all patients making them an excellent resource for population-level monitoring. However, specific treatment details, such as drug names, are contained in a free-text format that is difficult to process a...

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Main Authors: Frances B Maguire, Cyllene R Morris, Arti Parikh-Patel, Rosemary D Cress, Theresa H M Keegan, Chin-Shang Li, Patrick S Lin, Kenneth W Kizer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212454