Data Scientist Giovanni Tramonti has produced an implementation of the NHS Predict decision tool for batch processing. Available on the R CRAN. This is useful for producing a patient-level mortality risk estimate from breast cancer staging information. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhs.predict/index.html
Treatment sequencing in metastatic breast cancer
Edinburgh Cancer Centre Oncology Specialty Registrar Ashley Horne @AshHorne1983 used data visualisation to demonstrate the power of Scottish prescribing data for complex treatment sequencing in metastatic breast cancer at the 2019 European Society of Medical Oncology annual conference. Full poster: ESMO_2019_Optimized