title: Tumors: the Cancer Information System (CIS) of the Minneapolis-West Metropolitan CHCP.
abstract: The Cancer Information System of the Minneapolis-West Metropolitan Community Hospital Cancer Program, using the Upper Midwest Oncology Registry System, avoids duplication of effort, is cost effective, has means of quality control, abstracts clinically useful data, provides a case summary, the data is immediately available, has a protocol system to assist the site committees, and provides both structured reports and a Query System for analysis of the data.
mesh_terms: D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D008910:Minnesota; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009862:Online Systems; D012042:Registries