title: BREASTCAN: an expert system for postoperative breast cancer therapy.
abstract: An expert system, named BREASTCAN and designed to assist physicians giving postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer, is described. The system is based on frames, each corresponding to one stage of treatment--either a decision-making stage or a therapeutic stage. The system has been designed to allow fast and easy consultation by general practitioners lacking computer knowledge.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D011381:Programming Languages; D012985:Software Design; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014584:User-Computer Interface