This module provides a standard location and clinical guidelines for recording a patient's oncology tumor/disease staging in the LMR, as well as for adding treatment plans. You are able to add tumor markers, histology/grade data and recurrence data points for each tumor type. Treatment plans are based on paper templates defined by ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology).
Oncology tumor staging is a classification scheme developed by the American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC). According to this scheme, the stage of a cancer is determined based on size of the primary cancer's tumor (T), assessment of involvement of the lymph node (N), and whether distant metastasis (M) has occurred.
The treatment plan section uses information from Chemo Order Entry to ensure consistency between documentation and better coordination of cancer care. Treatment plans can be saved in Draft, Preliminary, or Final status. When saved as Final status, the LMR creates a copy of the Treatment Plan as a patient note.