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United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI+) Seeks Feedback on Adverse Event Data Elements

If you’re working with adverse event cancer and immune-related data, USCDI+ program staff need to hear from you! See how you can give your feedback on the new USCDI+Cancer draft data set.

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CCDI Workshop Addresses the Needs of Its Rare Cancer Initiative

Learn about the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative’s national strategy for studying children, adolescents, and young adults with very rare cancers. The Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Rare Cancer Initiative supplies researchers (like you) the data requirements for collecting data from study participants.

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Feedback Needed on USCDI+ Cancer Registry Data Element List

Help define the data standards that will make data in the USCDI+ Cancer Registry interoperable with data collected for clinicals, public health, and research. Submit your feedback by Monday, September 23, 2024.

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Input Needed for Pediatric Data Standards

NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative seeks your feedback for the Pediatric Cancer Core Common Data Elements, a newly created resource which facilitates data integration and analysis.

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NCI Helps Address Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the GA4GH

NCI staff contributed to an October 2023 publication that highlights how the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) coalition is creating a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment within its standards and members. This is to prevent continuing biases in genomics data collection methods and the genomics workforce. By taking actions to address such changes, the GA4GH coalition hopes to inspire others to do the same and make genomic data more representative of the global community.

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Participate in the NCI Medical Image De-Identification Benchmark Challenge at MICCAI 2024

Explore this challenge if you’re a software tool developer interested in assessing how well your tool de-identifies medical images.

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Electronic Health Records Adopting Cancer Data Elements

Thanks to a unique public-private partnership, new data elements will soon be a routine part of electronic health records, capturing information about cancer and helping to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care.

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Childhood Cancer Clinical Data Commons: A New Web Application for Your Data Needs

Find harmonized demographic and clinical data in this new data commons from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative!

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NCI Data Science at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting

Are you planning to attend this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Make sure to add these NCI-affiliated data science activities to your schedule!

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NCI CBIIT Presenters at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2024

Attending the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit? Don't miss these NCI CBIIT-affiliated data science sessions!

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