New software to improve cancer patients data in Bahia Blanca, Argentina

LASPIUR, ALEJANDRO; GONZALEZ, M. SOLEDAD; PONZONI, IGNACIO; CECCHINI, ROCÍO LUJÁN; PRINCIPE, NATALIA; PALMA, VIRGINIA; LAURA, EDUARDO

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Encuentro; 34th IACR Meeting; 2012

The cancer data collection is very difficult and time consuming in Argentina because the Health System is heterogeneous. Our Multidisciplinary Group faced this problem creating a new soft ware in order that all sources in the Registry area can have a uniform way of keeping cancer data. A CANREG-compatible software system has been proposed and developed. It is expected that the new system, named CDC (Cancer Data Collector), works as a fast and intuitive interface placed into different cancer data sources. It has been developed in JAVA language and designed with the objective of maintaining a strong compatibility with the different components of CANREG. This compatibility is aimed to allow an easy and effective management at the time of cancer cases collection coming from different sources. The CDC will enable us to import and export data in a safe way, becoming into a helpful intermediate step and connecting the route of data from the sources to the Cancer Registry. The new soft ware has been proved successfully and it will be soon presented to all Hospitals and Clinics Directors and Heads of Pathology Labs, Radiotheraphy Centers, Haematologysts and Clinical Oncologists in order to try to convince them about the advantages of its use. To have a uniform way of keeping cancer data will be an important achievement. The success of the initiative will depend on the general acceptance of the soft ware by all the sources.