Medical records of the National Cancer Center Hospital will be integrated into a centralized database, and some of the useful information regarding diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer patients will become available for health care professionals outside the National Cancer Center. In addition, a prognosis predicting system and a search system for patients with similar clinical characteristics will be developed.
Digital image database and three-dimentional images reconstructed by computer technology, will be used for increased accuracy in diagnosis and optimization of radiotherapy.
Medical Virtual Reality (MedVR) System is expected to be applied to clinical fields such as surgical simulation, medical education and palliative care.
Useful diagnostic images will be stored as educational database, which can also be used to develop a computer-assisted image diagnosis system in the future.
High speed and sensitive homology search is a key for genetic research of cancer. Three dimentional molecular modeling system for oncogene products and aniticancer drug designig system using VR are on development.
The latest information about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer is widely distributed through telephones, facsimiles, and personal computers.